A catalogue of the types of Limoniidae and Tipulidae (Diptera: Tipulomorpha) in the collection of the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Author
Ribeiro, Guilherme Cunha
Author
Lamas, Carlos José Einicker
Author
Azevedo, Leisa Nathalie Silva De
text
Zootaxa
2007
1497
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22
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.273790
c6f1f707-4479-4dcc-94c9-4070e4379f4b
1175-5326
273790
Tipula (Microtipula) efferox
Alexander, 1945
Alexander, 1945a
: 249–250 (original description); 279, figure 2 (male terminalia).
Type
locality:
Brazil
, São Paulo, São Paulo (Cidade Jardim).
Paratype
male with labels: (1) handwritten on white paper: “
Brazil
| Sao Paulo | S. Cantareira |
900m
;
XII. 40
[December, 1940] | Travassos”; (2) printed with handwritten inscriptions on blue paper: “
PARATYPE
♂ |
Tipula
|
efferox
| C. P. Alexander”.
Preservation: mounted at the tip of a pinned paper triangle; terminalia mounted on a plastic slide pinned with the specimen. Missing parts: right flagellum, right wing and most legs except for left hind leg. Additional note: the original description indicates as collectors “Guimarães & Travassos”. This differs from the specimen label which indicates only “Travassos” as the collector.