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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 11" captionStartId="F11" captionText="Figure 11. Neotherevella species, head, frontal view A Neotherevella kozlovi (Zaitzev, 1971 a), male B same, female C Neotherevella arenaria (Lyneborg, 1976), male D same, female E Neotherevella londti sp. nov., male F same, female G Neotherevella macularis (Wiedemann, 1828), male H same, female I Neotherevella maroccanus sp. nov., male." figureDoi="10.3897/afrinvertebr.64.96577.figure11" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/845764" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">, 11G, H</figureCitation>
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Wiedemann, 1828: 558-
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: 209 [catalogue], 1906: 264 [catalogue]);
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: 254 [checklist], 1912d: 409 [redescription], 1913: 49, 58 [key, checklist], 1924a: 100 [possible synonymy], 1924b: 17 [synonymy]).
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(Wiedemann, 1828)-
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: 276 [combination change, catalogue]);
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: 294 [redescription]); Steyskal &amp; El-Bialy (1967: 53 [checklist]).
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(Wiedemann, 1828)-
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.1163/187631278X00241" author="Lyneborg, L" journalOrPublisher="Insect Systematics &amp; Evolution" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" pagination="75 - 76" refId="B32" refString="Lyneborg, L, 1978. Neotherevella, a new genus of Therevidae (Diptera) from the Palaearctic and Afrotropical Regions. Insect Systematics &amp; Evolution 9 (1): 75 - 76, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/187631278X00241" title="Neotherevella, a new genus of Therevidae (Diptera) from the Palaearctic and Afrotropical Regions." url="https://doi.org/10.1163/187631278X00241" volume="9" year="1978">Lyneborg (1978</bibRefCitation>
: 76 [combination change], 1980: 319 [catalogue], 1989: 22 [catalogue]); El-Hawagry et al. (2011: 152 [catalogue];
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: 213 [catalogue]).
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Becker, 1902: 35-
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: 208 [catalogue], 1906: 264 [catalogue]);
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: 152 [catalogue]). syn. nov.
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(Becker, 1902)-
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.1002/mmnd.48019120202" author="Kroeber, O" journalOrPublisher="Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" pagination="109 - 140" refId="B21" refString="Kroeber, O, 1912b. Monographie der palaearktischen und afrikanischen Thereviden. (Dipt.). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1912 (2): 109 - 140, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/mmnd.48019120202" title="Monographie der palaearktischen und afrikanischen Thereviden. (Dipt.)." url="https://doi.org/10.1002/mmnd.48019120202" volume="1912" year="1912 b">
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: 138, 139 [key, redescription], 1913: 42 [key, checklist], 1924a: 17 [key redescription], 1937: 276 [catalogue]).
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Becker" baseAuthorityYear="1902" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Neotherevella" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Neotherevella citrina" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="citrina">Neotherevella citrina</taxonomicName>
(Becker, 1902)-
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.1163/187631278X00241" author="Lyneborg, L" journalOrPublisher="Insect Systematics &amp; Evolution" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" pagination="75 - 76" refId="B32" refString="Lyneborg, L, 1978. Neotherevella, a new genus of Therevidae (Diptera) from the Palaearctic and Afrotropical Regions. Insect Systematics &amp; Evolution 9 (1): 75 - 76, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/187631278X00241" title="Neotherevella, a new genus of Therevidae (Diptera) from the Palaearctic and Afrotropical Regions." url="https://doi.org/10.1163/187631278X00241" volume="9" year="1978">Lyneborg (1978</bibRefCitation>
: 76 [combination change], 1989: 22 [catalogue]); El Hawagry et al. (2011: 151 [catalogue]).
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Krober" authorityYear="1912" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Neothereva" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Neothereva angustifrons" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="angustifrons">Neothereva angustifrons</taxonomicName>
<normalizedToken originalValue="Kröber">Kroeber</normalizedToken>
, 1912b: 139-
<bibRefCitation author="Kroeber, O" editor="Wytsman, PAG" journalOrPublisher="148 [me] fascicle. Genera Insectorum, V. Verteneuil &amp; L. Desmet, Bruxelles" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" pagination="1 - 62" refId="B24" refString="Kroeber, O, 1913. Diptera. Fam. Therevidae. In: Wytsman, PAG, Ed., Genera Insectorum. 148[me] fascicle. Genera Insectorum, V. Verteneuil &amp; L. Desmet, Bruxelles: 1 - 62" title="Diptera. Fam. Therevidae." volumeTitle="Genera Insectorum." year="1913">
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(1913
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: 42 [key, checklist], 1924a: 100 [redescription, antennae figure], 1924b: 17 [key, redescription], 1929: 75 [catalogue, possible synonymy]).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Type material.</paragraph>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Thereva macularis</emphasis>
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Wiedemann, 1828-
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Holotype</emphasis>
Sudan • female; Abyssina; Dr.
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; SMF.
<taxonomicName authorityName="Becker" authorityYear="1902" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Thereva" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Thereva citrina" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="citrina">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Thereva citrina</emphasis>
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Becker, 1902-
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Lectotype</emphasis>
Egypt • male; ZMHB.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Neothereva angustifrons</emphasis>
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, 1912b-
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Holotype</emphasis>
Egypt • male; ZMHB.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Other material.</paragraph>
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,
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[Abou]
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,
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<collectingDate value="1924-09-12">12 Sep 1924</collectingDate>
,
<collectingDate value="1925-03-11">11 Mar 1925</collectingDate>
;
<collectorName>Min. Agric.</collectorName>
(
<collectingCountry name="Egypt">Egypt</collectingCountry>
), R.M. leg.; AMNH; MEI084347-8
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.
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<collectingCountry name="Israel">Israel</collectingCountry>
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,
<specimenCount type="female">1 female</specimenCount>
;
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<collectingRegion country="Israel" name="Haifa">Haifa District</collectingRegion>
</emphasis>
,
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(nr.
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,
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</quantity>
alt.;
<collectingDate value="1995-04-14">14 Apr 1995</collectingDate>
;
<collectorName>M.E. Irwin</collectorName>
leg.; shifting coastal dunes; CSCA; MEI028294-5, 02827, 030658, 030661-2, 030667, 060671 •
<specimenCount type="male">2 males</specimenCount>
,
<specimenCount type="female">1 female</specimenCount>
;
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<collectingRegion country="Israel" name="Southern">Southern District</collectingRegion>
</emphasis>
, Nizzamin [Nitsanim] Beach; [
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,
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];
<collectingDate value="1995-04-15">15 Apr 1995</collectingDate>
;
<collectorName>M.E. Irwin</collectorName>
leg.;
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<elevation metricMagnitude="1" metricUnit="m" metricValue="4.3" unit="m" value="43.0">43 m</elevation>
</quantity>
; shifting coastal dunes; CSCA; MEI030677-8, 030680 •
<specimenCount type="female">1 female</specimenCount>
;
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">
<collectingRegion country="Israel" name="Tel Aviv">Tel Aviv District</collectingRegion>
</emphasis>
,
<collectorName>Holon</collectorName>
, nr.
<collectingRegion country="Israel" name="Tel Aviv">Tel Aviv</collectingRegion>
; [
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,
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];
<collectingDate value="1968-04-06">6 Apr 1968</collectingDate>
;
<collectorName>S. Bleszynski</collectorName>
leg.; CNC; MEI079732
</materialsCitation>
.
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<collectingCountry name="Tunisia">Tunisia</collectingCountry>
<specimenCount type="female">1 female</specimenCount>
;
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">
<collectingRegion country="Tunisia" name="Kebili">Kebili Governorate</collectingRegion>
</emphasis>
[
<collectingRegion country="Tunisia" name="Kebili">Qibili</collectingRegion>
],
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:1C5D9D650A5551A4AD8198570E2E0F9F:45322B19339AE794DBCCC8BC27F4FB9C" country="Tunisia" latitude="32.9777" longLatPrecision="6" longitude="9.0425" name="Jebil National Park" stateProvince="Kebili Governorate">Jebil National Park</location>
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,
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];
<collectingDate value="2010-10-05" valueMax="2010-10-13" valueMin="2010-10-05">5-13 Oct 2010</collectingDate>
;
<collectorName>H. Pohl</collectorName>
leg.; sand dunes; CSCA
</materialsCitation>
.
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<collectingCountry name="Morocco">Morocco</collectingCountry>
<specimenCount type="female">1 female</specimenCount>
;
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:1C5D9D650A5551A4AD8198570E2E0F9F:67FA6FD05371B40CCE5C07B66ED5DBBD" country="Morocco" name="Agadir-ida Ou Tanane Province">Agadir-ida Ou Tanane Province</location>
</emphasis>
,
<quantity metricMagnitude="4" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.0" unit="km" value="10.0">10 km</quantity>
S
</materialsCitation>
<materialsCitation collectingDate="2015-04-15" collectorName="Schmid-Egger" country="Agadir" elevation="43" latitude="30.1972" location="Tifnit" longLatPrecision="6" longitude="-9.6383" specimenCount="1">
<collectingCountry name="Morocco">Agadir</collectingCountry>
,
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:1C5D9D650A5551A4AD8198570E2E0F9F:89B7E54B3318C0A121502CDFDC3B0AFC" country="Agadir" latitude="30.1972" longLatPrecision="6" longitude="-9.6383" name="Tifnit">Tifnit</location>
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,
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];
<collectingDate value="2015-04-15">15.IV.2015</collectingDate>
;
<collectorName>Schmid-Egger</collectorName>
leg.,
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<elevation metricMagnitude="1" metricUnit="m" metricValue="4.3" unit="m" value="43.0">43 m</elevation>
</quantity>
; CSCA
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.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="109" type="diagnosis">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Male frons lacking dark maculae (small light brown suffused areas present); male frons slightly narrower than ocellar tubercle at narrowest point; female frontal maculae without erect macrosetae; cell m3 closed; all macrosetae white; dorsocentral macrosetae absent; palpi slender.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="109" type="redescription">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Redescription.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="109">
Body length: 5.5-7.0 mm (male), 7.5-11.0 mm (female).
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Head</emphasis>
. Frons profile flat, pubescence grey, silver ventrally and on face, pair of suffused brown marks dorsally along eye margin (male) or matte-black maculae (female), lacking setae on frons; male frons width at narrowest point slightly wider than anterior ocellus; female frons broad with inner margins of eyes sub-parallel; white postocular setae arranged in single row immediately laterad of ocellar tubercle, barely discernible from pale setae; male occiput relatively convex, pubescence silver admixed with white, scale-like setae abundant medially; antennal scape length equal to flagellum, brown (male) or dark yellow (female), overlain with grey pubescence admixed with numerous large pale macrosetae; flagellum brown; genal setae white, palpi slender, setae white.
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Thorax</emphasis>
. Scutum grey, with erect filiform setae admixed with adpressed, white, scale-like setae, denser anteriorly; thoracic macrosetae white to yellow; scutellum concolourous with scutum; pleuron with dense silver-grey pubescence admixed with extensive semi-erect, white, scale-like setae; coxae dark, overlain with silver-grey pubescence, setae white, macrosetae few in number and pale; femora uniform yellow (female) or dark brown (male), dense covering of white, scale-like adpressed setae, macrosetae white; hind femur with 3-4 fine anteroventral macrosetae spaced along entire length; tibiae yellow, dark grey-brown apically (male) or dark yellow (female); tarsi dark yellow, brown apically in male; wing opaque white, brown along veins (darker in female); cell m3 closed; venation yellow basally along major veins, darker distally; haltere stem orange-brown, knob yellow; scutal chaetotaxy: notopleural, 3; supra alar, 1; post alar, 1; dorsocentral, 0; scutellar, 2.
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Abdomen</emphasis>
. Dark brown, yellow posteriorly on all tergites, pale filiform setae admixed with adpressed, white, scale-like setae (denser in male); terminalia dark yellow; female acanthophorite spines yellow.
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Male genitalia</emphasis>
. Epandrium with extensive pale setae, narrowed posteriorly with posterolateral corners acute and divergent; sternite 8 quadrangular with strongly emarginate posterior margin, elongate pale setae on entire surface; gonocoxites with small ridge-like outer gonocoxal process; inner gonocoxal process narrow; gonostylus with angular ridges along outer surface; phallus with dorsal apodeme broader posteriorly with shoulder like ridges; ventral apodeme broad, triangular; distiphallus short, narrow.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="109">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Figure 8.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Neotherevella macularis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Wiedemann, 1828), female
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">A</emphasis>
oblique view
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">B</emphasis>
lateral view.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<caption doi="10.3897/afrinvertebr.64.96577.figure9" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/845762" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" start="Figure 9" startId="F9">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="109">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Figure 9.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Neotherevella macularis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Wiedemann, 1828), male
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">A</emphasis>
oblique view
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">B</emphasis>
lateral view.
</paragraph>
</caption>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="109" type="distribution">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Egypt, Israel, Mauritania, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="109" type="ecology">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Ecology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="109">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Neotherevella macularis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
adults are found on vegetated sand dunes.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="109" type="conservation status">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Conservation status.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Not threatened; a widely distributed species.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="109" type="comments">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Comments.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="109">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Neotherevella macularis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was originally described in the genus
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Thereva" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Thereva" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Thereva</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, based on a single female specimen from Abyssinia (Sudan), although listed as Egypt by
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and
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Kröber">Kroeber</normalizedToken>
(1912d)
</bibRefCitation>
.
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Kröber">Kroeber</normalizedToken>
(1912d)
</bibRefCitation>
and
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redescribed this species, noting that, despite the poor condition of the type specimen, it retained the distinctive colouration and markings typical of the genus. The species was transferred to
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Neothereva</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">sensu</emphasis>
Lyneborg, 1976) and subsequently to
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Neotherevella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by
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.
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redescribed it briefly and compared it with his newly-described
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">N. arenaria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from southern Africa, although surprisingly not with the geographically nearby
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">N. citrina</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. At the time, the male of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">N. macularis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was unknown, but
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assumed that it would certainly have the eyes well separated, a character which is indeed typical of
<taxonomicName lsidName="N. citrina" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="citrina">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">N. citrina</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. As mentioned previously, in his revision of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Neothereva</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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incorrectly designated
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">T. citrina</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as the type species of the genus, something he subsequently corrected (
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) by describing
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Neotherevella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and designating
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">T. citrina</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as the type species.
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indicated his placement of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">T. macularis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Neothereva</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was novel, apparently being unaware that it had already been proposed by
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(1937)
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. Moreover, his synonymy of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">N. angustifrons</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
with
<taxonomicName lsidName="N. macularis" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="macularis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">N. macularis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was also not novel, as
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(1937)
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had previously identified
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">N. angustifrons</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as a synonym of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">N. macularis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
along with
<taxonomicName lsidName="T. nuba" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="nuba">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">T. nuba</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Wiedemann, 1828 (the latter species is now placed in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Irwiniella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
). Indeed,
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(1924b
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,
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) suggested that
<taxonomicName lsidName="T. macularis" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="macularis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">T. macularis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and his own
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">N. angustifrons</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
might be synonymous, although
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(1924a)
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erroneously considered
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">T. macularis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as a junior synonym of
<taxonomicName lsidName="N. angustifrons" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="angustifrons">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">N. angustifrons</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
; he later recognised this error and reversed the synonymy (
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Kröber">Kroeber</normalizedToken>
1937
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) as
<taxonomicName lsidName="T. macularis" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="macularis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">T. macularis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is the senior name and, thus, takes precedence.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="109">
On the status of three names in question (i.e.
<taxonomicName lsidName="T. macularis" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="macularis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">T. macularis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName lsidName="T. citrina" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="citrina">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">T. citrina</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName lsidName="N. angustifrons" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="angustifrons">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">N. angustifrons</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
),
<taxonomicName lsidName="T. citrina" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="citrina">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">T. citrina</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
being a junior synonym of
<taxonomicName lsidName="T. macularis" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="macularis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">T. macularis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is the only one that has not been previously proposed. The male is known for
<taxonomicName lsidName="N. citrina" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="citrina">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">N. citrina</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName lsidName="N. angustifrons" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="angustifrons">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">N. angustifrons</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, but not
<taxonomicName lsidName="N. macularis" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="macularis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">N. macularis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, but comparison of types and a series of specimens (males and females) indicates that characters used previously to separate them (notably scutal colour and markings or frontal markings) tend to be highly variable or obscure. Moreover, the recorded distributions of all three overlap:
<taxonomicName lsidName="N. citrina" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="citrina">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">N. citrina</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is recorded from Mauritania to Israel,
<taxonomicName lsidName="N. angustifrons" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="angustifrons">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">N. angustifrons</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from Egypt and
<taxonomicName lsidName="N. macularis" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" rank="species" species="macularis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">N. macularis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from Sudan, Egypt and Mauritania.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="109">
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Wiedemann" baseAuthorityYear="1828" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Neotherevella" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Neotherevella macularis" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="macularis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Neotherevella macularis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
can be separated from all other species of
<taxonomicName authorityName="Lyneborg" authorityYear="1978" class="Insecta" family="Therevidae" genus="Neotherevella" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Neotherevella" order="Diptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="109" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="109">Neotherevella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by the male frons being only slightly wider than the anterior ocellus, wing cell m3 closed and by the shape of the male epandrium and phallus.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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