A review of the asilid (Diptera) fauna from Hispaniola with six genera new to the island, fifteen new species, and checklist
Author
Scarbrough, Aubrey G.
Author
Perez-Gelabert, Daniel E.
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Zootaxa
2006
2006-12-14
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Efferia fortis
(Walker)
(
Table 1
)
Erax fortis
Walker, 1855: 623
.
Type
locality: 'Santo Domingo',
type
:
♂
(
BMNH
)
.
Efferia fortis
(Walker)
.
Martin & Papavero, 1970: 65
. New Comb.
Erax rufitibia
Macquart, 1848: 187
(
1848: 27
)
.
Type
locality: '
Haiti
',
type
:
♀
(UMO).
Curran, 1953: 4
.
Efferia rufitibia
(Macquart)
.
Martin & Papavero, 1970: 65
. Syn., New Comb. (Macquart 's
Haiti
specimens).
Remarks.
Macquart (1848)
described
Erax rufitibia
from
two females
from
Brazil
(Rio Negro) and southern
Haiti
. Later, Walker (1855) described
E. fortis
from a male collected from Santo Domingo and separated it from
E. rufitibia
largely based upon its hyaline wings.
Curran (1953)
recognized that Macquart 's
type
series consisted of two species and the difficulty of identifying females, especially based upon Macquart's description. He proposed that the name
E. rufitibia
be restricted to the Rio Negro specimen, leaving the Haitian specimen without a name. The latter was subsequently synonymized with
E. fortis
(
Martin 1970
)
.