Melaloncha rubricornis, BORGMEIER, 1968

Brown, Brian V., 2004, Revision of the subgenus Udamochiras of Melaloncha beekilling flies (Diptera: Phoridae: Metopininae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 140 (1), pp. 1-42 : 35

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00086.x
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5491134
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scientific name	Melaloncha rubricornis
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MELALONCHA RUBRICORNIS BORGMEIER View in CoL

Melaloncha rubricornis Borgmeier, 1924: 17–18 View in CoL .

Holotype. ♂, BRAZIL: Rio de Janeiro: Petrópolis, 22.i.1923, Ronchi [ LACM ENT 122521 About LACM ] ( MZSP).

Species recognition. This species is known only from the male sex, differentiated by Borgmeier from other species by the wing venation (e.g. Borgmeier, 1971: 130). He stated that the venation of this species was identical with that of M. piliapex , a taxon that, at the time, was a mixture of two species. As Borgmeier (1971) stated: ‘The segregation of species is not easy. Owing to sexual dimorphism, it is especially difficult to associate the males with respective females. it is therefore highly inconvenient to base new species on males alone, as I unfortunately did several times in the past.’