Megaselia bistruncata Schmitz
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https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930903371813 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D24787B6-FFEF-FFE4-FD89-FB20FEC251E5 |
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treatment provided by |
Felipe |
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scientific name |
Megaselia bistruncata Schmitz |
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Megaselia bistruncata Schmitz View in CoL
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Megaselia bistruncata Schmitz, 1936 .
This species has a sibling species, M. marina , on the Azores and Madeira. While it has a distinctive female, the males of the two species are very similar. However, this species has brown halteres but M. marina has yellow haltere knobs, and the hypopygia differ. Two other sibling species, in Sweden ( M. fuscoides Schmitz, 1934 ) and Great Britain ( M. yatesi Disney, 2002a ), also have brown halteres but they have brown palps and darker legs as opposed to the straw yellow palps and paler legs of M. bistruncata . The hypopygia all differ in small details. The males of all these species run to M. bistruncata at couplet 8 of the key to males of the M. pulicaria complex ( Disney 1999).
Previous records
La Palma, Tenerife.
New records
One male, one female, La Palma, west side, Barranco de la Galga, laurel woodland, 28 May 1996 (A. Stark, CUMZ – 10-145, 146); one male, Parc National de la Caldera de Taburiente , Roque de la Cumbrecita, 1377 m, 22 September 1999 ( T. Domingo-Quero, MNCNM – 19-147) .
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Cameroon University, Museum of Zoology |
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Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics |
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