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Simulium melatum Wharton 1949
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Description
MELATUM species-group
Simulium melatum Wharton
Bedo (1975a, description of C banding, photos of C banding of centromere regions and polytene complement, possible sibling species): Australia
Bedo (1976a, 1976b, photos of polytene complement [with and without C banding] from adult Malpighian tubules): Australia
Notes
Published as part of Adler, Peter H. & Crosskey, Roger W., 2015, Cytotaxonomy of the Simuliidae (Diptera): a systematic and bibliographic conspectus, pp. 1-139 in Zootaxa 3975 (1) on page 63, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3975.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/192364
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Wharton
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Simuliidae
- Genus
- Simulium
- Species
- melatum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Simulium melatum Wharton, 1949 sec. Adler & Crosskey, 2015
References
- Bedo, D. G. (1975 a) C banding in polytene chromosomes of Simulium ornatipes and S. melatum (Diptera: Simuliidae). Chromosoma, 51, 291 - 300.
- Bedo, D. G. (1976 a) Polytene chromosomes in pupal and adult blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae). Mimeographed document VBC / SC / 76.1. World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 17 pp.
- Bedo, D. G. (1976 b) Polytene chromosomes in pupal and adult blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae). Chromosoma, 57, 387 - 396.