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Messiasia painteri Wilcox & Papavero 1975

Description

Messiasia painteri Wilcox & Papavero, 1975.

Wilcox & Papavero, 1975: 29 – 30 (original description); 30, figures 10 – 12 (male genitalia).

Type locality: Cuernavaca (19 km E), Morelos, Mexico.

Holotype male with labels: (1) printed with handwritten inscriptions on white paper: “ MEXICO: 12 ml E | Cuernavaca, Mor [Morelos] | Lobo Canyon; 4, 0 0 0 | VI – 14 – 19 65 ”; (2) printed on white paper: “R. H. Painter | col.”; (3) printed on red paper: “HOLOTIPO”; (4) printed with handwritten inscriptions on white paper: “ Messiasia | painteri | nsp. ɗ | det. J. Wilcox”; (5) handwritten with red font on white paper: “RHP”.

Preservation: Pinned; genitalia on plastic vial pinned with the specimen; Missing parts: left tarsus of leg III.

Paratype female with labels: (1) printed on white paper: “ MEXICO Guerrero | 20 m 1. E. Acapulco | 12 August 1962 | U. Kans. Mex. Experd.”; (2) printed on red paper: “PARATIPO”; (3) printed with handwritten inscriptions on white paper: “ Messiasia | painteri nsp Ψ | det. J. Wilcox”.

Preservation: Pinned; Missing parts: both antennae.

Notes

Published as part of Yamaguchi, Carolina & Lamas, Carlos José Einicker, 2009, A catalogue of the types of Asiloidea (Diptera) in the collection of the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil (Part 1: Bombyliidae and Mydidae), pp. 35-52 in Zootaxa 2146 on page 48, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.163509

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Wilcox & Papavero
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Mydidae
Genus
Messiasia
Species
painteri
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Messiasia painteri Wilcox, 1975 sec. Yamaguchi & Lamas, 2009

References

  • Wilcox, J. & Papavero, N. (1975) Studies of Mydidae (Diptera) systematics and evolution. 3. The genus Messiasia d'Andretta in the Americas (Mydinae). Arquivos de Zoologia, 26, 1 - 48.