Oxysarcodexia Townsend, 1917 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) - a centennial conspectus
Author
Souza, Carina Mara De
carina_mara@yahoo.com.br
Author
Pape, Thomas
tpape@snm.ku.dk
Author
Thyssen, Patricia Jacqueline
carina_mara@yahoo.com.br
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-08-31
4841
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1
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journal article
8542
10.11646/zootaxa.4841.1.1
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1175-5326
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Oxysarcodexia subsericans
(
Walker, 1858
)
Sarcophaga subsericans
Walker, 1858: 207
. Type locality:
South America.
Holotype
male, in NHMUK (not examined).
Remarks.
Sarcophaga subsericans
Walker, 1858
was listed among the “Unidentified nominal species-group taxa assigned to
Sarcophaginae
” by
Pape (1996: 446)
. Nigel Wyatt (NHMUK) kindly informed us that the
holotype
is in poor condition, slightly moldy and with the head missing. He also informed us that the size and type of terminalia fit a species of
Oxysarcodexia
, that the abdomen is silver-gray pollinose at the base and more yellowish-gray on tergites 4 and 5, and that the terminalia are orange with pale yellowish pollinosity.