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Ptecticus melanurus Walker 1848

Description

14. Ptecticus melanurus (Walker, 1848) (New for China)

Ctenophora melanura Walker,1848: 78. Type locality: Nepal. Ptecticus apicalis Loew, 1855:142.

Sargus luridus Walker, 1856: 8.

Sargus leninus Rondani, 1875: 454.

Sargus repensans Walker, 1859: 96. Syn. Mason & Rozkošný, 2005b. Ptecticus ochraceus Enderlein, 1914: 582. Syn. Rozkošný, 2002. Ptecticus wulpii Brunetti, 1907: 111. Syn. Rozkošný & Hauser, 2009.

Figures of male terminalia. Mason & Rozkošný (2005b).

Specimens examined. YUNNAN: 2♂, 4–5.vi.2009, Mt.Gaoligong (24°50’N, 98°45’E), 2160–2200m, Baoshan, Zaihua Yang & Bin Li legs (GUGC); 1♂, 28.v.2006, some locality, Zaihua Yang leg (GUGC); 4♂, 1♀, 24–26.viii.2006, Xianguan (25°36’N, 100°11’E), 1969–2459m, Dali, Zaihua Yang legs (GUGC); 1♂, 4–5.vi.2009, Pingpo, 1420m, Dali, Zaihua Yang leg (GUGC). 1♂, 1♀, 09.viii.1994, Binchuan (25°51’N, 100°40’E), 1380m, Dali, Lianmeng Wei legs (GAFC); 1♂, 06.viii.1994, Mt. Jigong, 2000–2700m, Zhaotong, Lianmeng Wei legs (GAFC).

Distribution. China (Jiangsu, Yunnan); India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore.

Notes

Published as part of Zai-Hua, Yang, Xiao-Ming, Chen & Mao-Fa, Yang, 2015, Two new species and two new records of Ptecticus Loew (Diptera: Stratiomyidae: Sargiinae) from China, pp. 433-444 in Zootaxa 3964 (4) on page 441, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3964.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/235644

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Biodiversity

Family
Stratiomyidae
Genus
Ptecticus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Walker
Species
melanurus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ptecticus melanurus Walker, 1848 sec. Zai-Hua, Xiao-Ming & Mao-Fa, 2015

References

  • Walker, F. (1848) List of the specimens of dipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part I (4). British Museum, London, 229 pp.
  • Loew, H. (1855) Einige Bemerkungen uber die Gattung Sargus. Verhandlungen des zoologisch-botanischen Vereines in Wien, 5 (2), 131 - 148.
  • Walker, F. (1856) Catalogue of the dipterous insects collected at Singapore and Ma 1 acca by Mr. A. R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, 1 (1), 4 - 39. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1856. tb 00943 b. x
  • Rondani, C. (1875) Muscaria exotica Musei Civici J anuensis observata et distincta. Fragmentum III. Species in Insula Bonae fortunae (Borneo), Provincia Sarawak, annis 1865 - 68, lectae a March. J. Doria et Doct. 0 Beccari. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 7, 421 - 464.
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  • Mason, F. & Rozkosny, R. (2005 b) Taxonomic and distributional notes on exotic Ptecticus and Sargus species from some Italian natural history museums. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, G. Doria, 96, 439 - 451.
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