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Allotrichoma (Allotrichoma) biroi Cresson 1902

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Allotrichoma (Allotrichoma) biroi Cresson, 1902

Allotrichoma biroi Cresson, 1929: 174. Holotype, male. India (Bombay) (HNHM).

Notiphila rufitarsis Macquart, 1851: 302 [Preoccupied in Notiphila by Waltl, 1837: 281]. Lectotype (herein designated). Egypt (OUMNH). New synonym. Type material of N. rufitarsis, examined: A syntype male (in a poor condition) in OUMNH is herein designated as lectotype and is labeled: "SYN-TYPE" (round label with light blue margin), " N. rufitarsis EX COLL. BIG.". Five paralectotypes: one female in a bad condition (without a head, glued wings), labelled: "SYN - TYPE " (round label with light blue margin), " Notiphila rufitarsis ♀ Macq. n.sp. " (handwritten), " N. rufitarsis EX COLL. BIG.", one male and three females in a poor condition (some legs and setae missing), labeled: "SYN-TYPE" (round label with light blue margin), " N. rufitarsis EX COLL. BIG.".

Allotrichoma (Allotrichoma) ralloi Canzoneri, 1987: 87. Sudan (Omdurman).

Allotrichoma abiatense Canzoneri, 1988: 3. Ethiopia (Addis Ababa: Lake Abiata).

Distribution: AF: Oman, Sudan, Arabia, United Arab Emirates. OR: India. PA: Egypt, Israel, Saudi.

Egyptian localities: Eastern Desert: Port Said. Lower Nile Valley & Delta: Cairo, El-Marg. Upper Nile Valley: Assiout (Krivosheina & Zatwarnicki, 1998: 297).

Dates of collection: March to August.

Notes

Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., Zatwarnicki, Tadeusz & Ebrahim, Ayman M., 2018, Catalogue of the Egyptian Ephydroidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae), pp. 201-246 in Zootaxa 4444 (3) on page 223, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4444.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1309626

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References

  • Cresson, E. T., Jr. (1929) Studies in the dipterous family Ephydridae. Paper II. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 55, 165 - 195.
  • Macquart, J. (1851) Dipteres exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Suite du 4 e supplement publie dans les memoires de 1849. Memoires de la Societe Royale des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts de Lille, 1850, 134 - 294.
  • Waltl, J. (1837) Neue Gattungen von Mucken bey Passau. Isis (Oken's), 4, 279 - 283.
  • Canzoneri, S. (1987) Sugli Ephydridae e Canacidae del Sudan (Diptera, Cyclorrhapha). Bollettino del Museo civico di Storia naturale di Venezia, 37 (1986), 79 - 97.
  • Canzoneri, S. (1988) Una nuova specie di Allotrichoma dell'Etiopia (Diptera, Ephydridae). Societa Veneziana di Scienze Naturali, Lavori, 13, 3 - 4.
  • Krivosheina, M. G. & Zatwarnicki, T. (1998) Some notes on the Old World Allotrichoma (Diptera: Ephydridae) with description of three new species. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne, 66, 291 - 310. [1997]