Merosargus nebulifer James 1971
- 1. Laboratório de Evolução e Morfologia de Diptera, Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil.
- 2. Museo Nacional de Historia Natural del Paraguay, San Lorenzo, Paraguay. & Departamento de Biología c / o Dirección de Investigación, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Asunción, San Lorenzo, Paraguay.
Description
nebulifer James in James & McFadden, 1971
Merosargus nebulifer James in James & McFadden, 1971: 49; 56, fig. 22 (wing); 58, fig. 49 (male genitalia); 72 (in key to species). Holotype: male (CNC). Type locality: Peru, Madre de Dios, Avispas, 400 m.
References. James, 1973a: 26.14 (cat.); Woodley, 2001: 198 (cat.); Fachin & Amorim, 2015: 79, fig. 227 (antenna), 81, fig. 251 (wing), 82, fig. 277 (alula), 87, figs 312–313 (male genitalia), 92, fig. 348 (epandrium), 95, fig. 377 (genital fork), 98, fig. 399 (habitus dorsal, male).
Material examined. Paraguay: 1 ♂, [Itapúa], Pirapó, 30–31.xii.1971, L. Peña col. (MZUSP; MZ015525).
Distribution. Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay (Itapúa: Pirapó), Peru.
Comments. Of the 32 paratypes (22 males and 10 females) and the allotype mentioned in the original description, nine paratypes, sexes not stated, are deposited in the WSU collection (type number 848, see Zack 1984: 25) and 15 male and seven female paratypes and the allotype are housed in the CNC collection (see Cooper & Cumming 1993: 47). The depository institution of a single paratype remains unknown.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MZUSP
- Event date
- 1971-12-30
- Family
- Stratiomyidae
- Genus
- Merosargus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- James
- Species
- nebulifer
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 1971-12-30/31
- Taxonomic concept label
- Merosargus nebulifer James, 1971 sec. Fachin, Zichinelli & Barrett, 2022
References
- James, M. T. & McFadden, M. W. (1971) The Genus Merosargus in Middle America and the Andean Subregion (Diptera: Stratiomyidae). Melanderia, 7 (2), 1 - 76.
- James, M. T. (1973 a) Family Stratiomyidae. In: Papavero, N. (Ed.), A catalogue of the Diptera of the Americas south of the United States. Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de SaTo Paulo, SaTo Paulo, pp. 26.1 - 26.95.
- Woodley, N. E. (2001) A world catalog of Stratiomyidae (Insecta: Diptera). Myia, 11, 1 - 475.
- Fachin, D. A. & Amorim, D. S. (2015) Taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of the Neotropical genus Acrochaeta Wiedemann, 1830 (Diptera: Stratiomyidae: Sarginae). Zootaxa, 4050 (1), 001 - 110. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4050.1.1
- Zack, R. S. (1984) Catalog of types in the James Entomological Collection. Melanderia, 42 (i - ii), 1 - 41.
- Cooper, B. E. & Cumming, J. M. (1993) Diptera types in the Canadian National Collection of Insects. Part 2. Brachycera (exclusive of Schizophora). Research Branch Agriculture Canada Publication 1896 / B, 1 - 105. [Available online from http: // www. nadsdiptera. org / Catalogs / CNCtypes / Part 2. pdf]