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Pseudomelina apicalis Malloch 1933
Authors/Creators
- 1. Research Collaborator, Department of Entomology, Smithsonian Institution, 7835 Tufton Street, Fishers, Indiana 46038, USA. murph 3000 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0085 - 6998
- 2. Instituto de Entomología, Facultad de Ciencias Básicas, Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación, Santiago, Chile. christian. gonzalez @ umce. cl; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2582 - 6071
- 3. Área de Entomología, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago, Chile.
Description
apicalis Malloch, 1933
Pseudomelina apicalis Malloch, 1933: 307–308.
Holotype. Male (NHMUK), Chile, Llanquihue, Puerto Montt.
Distribution. Bolivia: Santa Cruz Department. Chile: Región del Maule: Linares Province (Linares); Región de Los Ríos: Valdivia Province (Valdivia); Región de Los Lagos: Llanquihue Province (Puerto Montt); Región de Aysén: Aysén Province (Puerto Aysén).
References. Stuardo 1946: 151 (catalog); Steyskal & Knutson 1975: 274 (key, phylogeny); Knutson et al. 1976: 5 (catalog); Knutson 1977: 597; Marinoni 1995: 135 (list); Knutson & Vala 2011: 39 (biology), 446 (table 21.1 world checklist).
Remarks. L.V. Knutson examined the holotype (Knutson 1977: 597).
Notes
Published as part of Murphy, William L., González, Christian R. & Elgueta, Mario, 2022, A catalog of the Sciomyzidae of Chile, with a key to genera (Diptera: Sciomyzoidea), pp. 261-278 in Zootaxa 5099 (2) on page 267, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5099.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/6048580
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NHMUK
- Scientific name authorship
- Malloch
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Sciomyzidae
- Genus
- Pseudomelina
- Species
- apicalis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pseudomelina apicalis Malloch, 1933 sec. Murphy, González & Elgueta, 2022
References
- Malloch, J. R. (1933) Acalyptrata. Sciomyzidae. In: Diptera of Patagonia and South Chile. Part VI. Fascicle 4. British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. 296 - 323, pl. VII.
- Stuardo, C. (1946) Catalogo de los Dipteros de Chile. Imprenta Universitaria. Santiago, 250 pp.
- Steyskal, G. C. & Knutson, L. (1975) Key to the genera of Sciomyzidae (Diptera) from the Americas south of the United States, with descriptions of two new genera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 77 (3), 274 - 277.
- Knutson, L., Steyskal, G. C., Zuska, J. & Abercrombie, J. (1976) 64. Family Sciomyzidae. In: Papavero, N. (Ed.), A Catalogue of the Diptera of the Americas South of the United States. Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, pp. 1 - 24.
- Knutson, L. V. (1977) Notes on examination of type-specimens of Pseudomelina apicalis Malloch and Sepedon relictus van der Wulp (Diptera: Sciomyzidae). Proceedings of the. Entomological Society of Washington, 79 (4), 597 - 598.
- Marinoni, L. (1995) Analise cladistica de Sciomyzidae Fallen, 1820 (Diptera). Tese Doutor em Ciencias Biologicas, Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Ciencias Biologicas (Entomologia), Universidade Federal do Parana, Curitiba, xiii + 143 pp. [https: // acervodigital. ufpr. br / handle / 1884 / 68434]
- Knutson, L. V. & Vala, J. - C. (2011) Biology of Snail-Killing Sciomyzidae Flies. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, xix + 506 pp.