Rudimentary halteres of some flightless female Phoridae (Diptera) reassessed, and some taxonomic implications
Author
Disney, R. Henry L.
text
Zootaxa
2005
1042
39
54
journal article
50961
10.5281/zenodo.169846
30242e99-0242-4a2f-986b-93106edf4251
11755326
169846
Puliciphora pauxilla
(Borgmeier)
,
comb. nov.
Pulicimyia pauxilla
Borgmeier, 1960
: 339
.
In the key to Neotropical
Puliciphora
females (
Disney, 2003a
) this species will readily run to couplet 27, lead 2 to
P. imbecilla
, as does the new species
P. jacquemart
i
(see above), and is then best distinguished by its possession of small wing rudiments (similar to
Fig. 23
) and T6 being represented by its anterior apodemes only.