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Mesembrinella socors
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Mesembrinella socors (Walker, 1861)
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Calliphora socors Walker 1861: 311.
Distribution. Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama. Mexico (no exact locality is known for the type, see Whitworth & Yusseff-Vanegas 2019). This is the first record for Chiapas.
Material examined. 3 males, 3 females, Mexico, Chiapas, Ocosingo, Reserva Montes Azules. 28-IV-1986 - 5-V-1986. col. F. Arias, R. Barba, L. Cervantes [CNCI].
All species present in Mexico are restricted to the central-south part of the country according to James (1970), M. bicolor is present in Nayarit at approximately 21° N being the northernmost record of this Neotropical family. All species can be properly identified using the keys provided by Whitworth & Yusseff-Vanegas (2019).
Notes
Published as part of Jaume-Schinkel, Santiago, 2021, New geographical records of Mesembrinellidae (Diptera: Oestroidea) in Mexico, pp. 741-746 in Revista Chilena de Entomología (Rev. Chil. Entomol.) (Rev. Chil. Entomol.) 47 (4) on page 744, DOI: 10.35249/rche.47.4.21.11, http://zenodo.org/record/13206965
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CNCI
- Event date
- 1986-04-28
- Family
- Mesembrinellidae
- Genus
- Mesembrinella
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Walker
- Species
- socors
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 1986-04-28/05-05
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mesembrinella socors (Walker, 1861) sec. Jaume-Schinkel, 2021
References
- Walker, F. (1861) Characters of the specimens of undescribed Diptera in the collection of W. W. Saunders, Esq., F. R. S., & c. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (n. s.), 5: 297 - 334.
- Whitworth, T. and Yusseff-Vanegas, S. (2019) A revision of the genera and species of the Neotropical Family Mesembrinellidae (Diptera: Oestridae), Zootaxa, 4659: 1 - 146.
- James, M. T. (1970) A catalogue of the Diptera of the Americas South of the United States. 102. Family Calliphoridae. Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo. 28 pp.