Parapyrellia Townsend 1915
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Subgenus PARAPYRELLIA Townsend, 1915
PARAPYRELLIA Townsend, 1915: 97 [as a full genus]. Type species: Musca violacea of authors, not Fabricius [misidentification] [= Pyrellia maculipennis Macquart, 1846a], by original designation.
Diagnosis (modified from Nihei & Carvalho 2009). Colouration metallic greenish-blue to violaceous-blue with silver pruinosity; wing with maculae on humeral vein, on apices of Sc and R1, on apex of R2+3 and on r-m and dmcu crossveins. Female with proclinate fronto-orbital setae weak (undistinguishable); fronto-orbital plate setulose on upper half; interfrontal seta absent. Dorsocentrals 2+4, but sometimes reduced to 0+ 2 in M. oportuna. Intrapostalar seta absent. Prosternum bare. Katepisternals 1+2. Proepisternal depression setulose (bare in M. humeralis). Meron bare. Wing with the basal portion of stem-vein setulose ventrally; apical portion of stem-vein setulose dorsally; R4+5 setulose dorsally and ventrally; M curved forward towards R4+ 5 in apical part. Lower calypter enlarged posteriorly, extending under base of scutellum. Subcostal sclerite bare. Male mid femur with a dorsal preapical protuberance bearing a set of modified (hook-like) setulae. Hind tibia with the calcar strong.
Distribution. Neotropical (7 species).
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Townsend
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Calliphoridae
- Genus
- Parapyrellia
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Parapyrellia Townsend, 1915 sec. Pamplona, Nihei, Couri & Pont, 2016
References
- Townsend, C. H. T. (1915) Nine new tropical American genera of Muscoidea. Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus, 3, 91 - 97. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 8939
- Macquart, P. - J. - M. (1846 a) Dipteres Exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Supplement. Memoires de la Societe des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts a Lille, 1844, 133 - 364.
- Nihei, S. S. & Carvalho, C. J. B. de. (2009) The Muscini flies of the World (Diptera, Muscidae): identification key and diagnoses for genera. Zootaxa, 1976, 1 - 24.