Scuttle flies (Diptera: Phoridae) whose larvae develop in flowers of Aristolochia (Aristolochiaceae) in Panama

Title:

Scuttle flies (Diptera: Phoridae) whose larvae develop in flowers of Aristolochia (Aristolochiaceae) in Panama

Creator:

Disney, R Henry. and Sakai, Shoko

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:4a704b03-2043-4f8e-8efe-22d800890bed
uuid:4a704b03-2043-4f8e-8efe-22d800890bed

Subject:

Diptera, Phoridae, new species, new synonymy, new combinations, Aristolochiaceae, and Neotropical Region

Type:

article, model:article, and TEXT

Description:

Megaselia metropolitanoensis Disney, sp. n., M. sakaiae Disney, sp. n. and Puliciphora pygmaea (Borgmeier, 1960) comb. n. are reported developing in the flowers of Aristolochia inflata H. B. K. and A. maxima Jacq. in Panama. The new species are described, as is the hitherto unknown male of Puliciphora pygmaea. The latter is transferred to the the genus Puliciphora Dahl, 1897 from the genus Myrmomyia Silvestri, 1911 which is formally synonymised with Puliciphora, along with P. brachymyrmecis (Silvestri, 1911) comb. n. and P. nigroflava (Borgmeier, 1958) comb. n.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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Source:

European Journal of Entomology | 2001 Volume:98 | Number:3

Harvested from:

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Metadata only:

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