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Leucotaraxis atrifacies Gaimari & Havill 2021
Creators
- 1. California State Collection of Arthropods, California Department of Food & Agriculture, Plant Pest Diagnostics Branch, 3294 Meadowview Road, Sacramento, California 95832 - 1448, USA. sgaimari @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4240 - 7154 United States Department of Agriculture - Forest Service, Northern Research Station, 51 Mill Pond Road, Hamden, Connecticut 06514, USA. nathan. p. havill @ usda. gov; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4004 - 8266
Description
Leucotaraxis atrifacies (Aldrich, 1925: 152;
Leucopis), comb. nov.
Type locality: USA: California (HT ♀, USNM).
This species is known only from western North America, attacking species of Adelges and Pineus infesting Tsuga and Pinus (details provided above). They have also been swept from Cinara ponderosae infesting young stands of Pinus ponderosa.
Notes
Published as part of Gaimari, Stephen D. & Havill, Nathan P., 2021, A new genus of Chamaemyiidae (Diptera: Lauxanioidea) predaceous on Adelgidae (Hemiptera), with a key to chamaemyiid species associated with Pinaceae-feeding Sternorrhyncha, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 5067 (1) on page 33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5067.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5656435
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- USNM
- Family
- Chamaemyiidae
- Genus
- Leucotaraxis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Gaimari & Havill
- Species
- atrifacies
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Leucotaraxis atrifacies Gaimari, 2021 sec. Gaimari & Havill, 2021
References
- Aldrich, J. M. (1925) A new Leucopis from San Francisco. Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 1 (4), 152.