Nominal genera and species of Diptera misidentified as to family by A. Z. Lehrer (Diptera: Muscidae, Tachinidae)
Author
Cerretti, P.
0000-0002-9204-3352
Department of Biology and Biotechnologies “ Charles Darwin ” & Museum of Zoology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. pierfilippo. cerretti @ uniroma 1. it; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9204 - 3352
Author
Morgulis, E.
Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. absinthii @ gmail. com
Author
Michelsen, V.
0000-0002-9490-1162
Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark. vmichelsen @ snm. ku. dk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9490 - 1162 Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark. tpape @ snm. ku. dk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6609 - 0609 Corresponding author
vmichelsen@snm.ku.dk
Author
Pape, T.
0000-0001-6609-0609
tpape@snm.ku.dk
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-05-04
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1
189
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5278.1.11
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5278.1.11
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12.
Spinuphalla juxtina
Lehrer, 2013: 12
.
Figs 9, 10
.
TYPE
LOCALITY:
Benin
,
Littoral
,
Cotonou
[Bénin ... Cotonou,
XII.2003
, leg.
G. Goergen
”]
.
TYPE SPECIMEN:
Holotype
♁, by original designation, deposited in SMNHTAU.
CURRENT STATUS:
Drino
(
Palexorista
Townsend, 1921)
juxtina
(Lehrer, 2013)
,
comb. nov.
FAMILY:
Tachinidae
.
REMARKS:
Holotype
in fair condition, but somewhat greasy and with wings and legs partly damaged.
It
is direct-pinned, with terminalia dissected and kept in a vial with glycerin on same pin.
This
is the first record of
Drino
from
Benin
(
O’Hara & Cerretti 2016
).