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Elephantomyia (Elephantomyia) juquiensis Alexander 1945

Description

Elephantomyia (Elephantomyia) juquiensis Alexander, 1945

Alexander, 1945b: 27–29 (original description); 42, figure 11 (male terminalia). Ribeiro & Amorim, 2002: 5 (redescription), figure 4 (male terminalia); 4, figures 1 (head), 2 (thorax) and 3 (wing). Type locality: Brazil, São Paulo, Juquiá.

Holotype male with labels: (1) handwritten on white paper: “ Brazil | São Paulo | Juquiá | 400m Nov. 40 [November, 1940] | Travassos; (2) printed with handwritten inscriptions on red paper: “ HOLOTYPE ♂ | Elephantomyia | juquiensis | C. P. Alexander”.

Preservation: mounted at the tip of a pinned paper triangle; part of abdomen with terminalia mounted on a plastic slide pinned with the specimen. Missing parts: flagella, right wing, right legs, left front leg and left middle leg.

Notes

Published as part of Ribeiro, Guilherme Cunha, Lamas, Carlos José Einicker & Azevedo, Leisa Nathalie Silva De, 2007, A catalogue of the types of Limoniidae and Tipulidae (Diptera: Tipulomorpha) in the collection of the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 1-22 in Zootaxa 1497 on page 6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.273790

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References

  • Alexander, C. P. (1945 b) New or little-known Tipulidae (Diptera) from Sao Paulo, Brasil. Part III. Papeis Avulsos do Departamento de Zoologia, 7, 1 - 44.
  • Ribeiro, G. C. & Amorim, D. S. (2002) A review of the genus Elephantomyia Osten Sacken in Brazil, with description of two new species (Diptera: Tipulomorpha, Limoniidae). Zootaxa, 46, 1 - 16.