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Vermitigris niloticus Edwards 1935
Authors/Creators
- 1. Universidade Federal do ABC, Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Avenida dos Estados, 5.001, Bangu CEP 09210 - 580, Santo André, SP, Brazil.
- 2. Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden, Museum of Zoology, Königsbrücker Landstrasse 159, 01109 Dresden, Germany. gabrielmbueno 10 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8478 - 4380 & kehlmaier @ web. de; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9622 - 0566
Description
niloticus Edwards, 1935
Holotype: Male, Sudan (NHMUK).
Dist.: known to occur in SUDAN and EGYPT —part of the historic material by Hafez & El-Moursy (1956a, 1956b), originally cited as V. vermileo, was recently studied and compared to the holotype of V. niloticus by Kehlmaier (2021).
Refs.: Edwards, 1935: 56 (fig.); Hafez & El-Moursy, 1956a: 287–291 (larv. biol.), 288, 292–293, 295 (figs.), 291– 296 (larv. des.) as V. vermileo; Nagatomi et al., 1999: 21 (key), 22–23 (cat.); Kehlmaier, 2021: 342 (phyl., dist.).
Notes
Published as part of Bueno, Gabriel M., Kehlmaier, Christian & Santos, Charles Morphy D., 2021, A worldwide catalog of the Vermileonidae (Diptera: Brachycera), pp. 489-514 in Zootaxa 5060 (4) on page 501, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5060.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5637954
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NHMUK
- Scientific name authorship
- Edwards
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Vermileonidae
- Genus
- Vermitigris
- Species
- niloticus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Vermitigris niloticus Edwards, 1935 sec. Bueno, Kehlmaier & Santos, 2021
References
- Edwards, F. W. (1935) " Worm-lions " from Portugal and the Sudan (Diptera, Rhagionidae), with a description of a new species. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 10 (2), 54 - 57.
- Hafez, M. & El-Moursy, A. A. (1956 a) Studies on desert insects in Egypt. I. Field and laboratory investigations on the wormlion, Vermileo vermileo L. (Diptera: Rhagionidae). Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique d'Egypte, 15, 279 - 299.
- Hafez, M. & El-Moursy, A. A. (1956 b) Studies on desert insects in Egypt. II. On the general biology of Vermileo vermileo L. (Diptera: Rhagionidae). Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique d'Egypte, 15, 333 - 348.
- Kehlmaier, C. (2021) DNA barcoding reveals an unexpected diversity in Old World Vermileonidae (Insecta: Diptera). Bonn Zoological Bulletin, 70 (2), 339 - 349. https: // doi. org / 10.20363 / BZB- 2021.70.2.339
- Nagatomi, A., Yang, C. & Yang, D. (1999) The Chinese species and the world genera of Vermileonidae (Diptera). Japan Society of Tropical Ecology, 1, 1 - 155.