Trizygia Skuse, 1137

Amorim, Dalton De Souza & Oliveira, Sarah Siqueira, 2013, Types of Neotropical Mycetophilidae (Diptera) at the Natural History Museum collection, London, Zootaxa 3726 (1), pp. 1-119 : 22-23

Trizygia Skuse

Trizygia Skuse 1888: 1137, 1204 . Type-species, T. flavipes Skuse (mon.).

T. nitens Edwards 1940a: 462 . Type-locality: Brazil, Santa Catarina, Nova Teutônia. Lectotype ♀, NHM (here designated).

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Notes. The type series included a male and a female syntypes. The male syntype could not be found at the NHM and the female syntype is herein designated lectotype of the species. Its labels are: “ Brasilien / Nova Teutonia / 27º 11’ S 52º 23’ W / Fritz Plaumann / 21.8.1938.” // “Brit Mus / 1938-40” // “SYN- / TYPE” [printed in black on a rounded label with red border]” // “ Trizygia / nitens [hw] / F.W. Edwards 193[pr]9[hw]” // “ HOLOTYPE [pr] / Trizygia / nitens [hw] / det. J.E. Chainey, 1996 [pr]” // “BMNH(E) # / 257923”. The abdomen of the lectotype is missing, but both wings and one of the fore-, one of the mid-, and one of the hindlegs are present, the hindleg with the final tarsomeres missing .

Figures

FIGURES 44–52. Mycetophilidae habitus. 44. Phthinia flagellata Freeman, paratype ♀. 45. Phthinia furcata Freeman, holotype ♂. 46. Sciophila antarctica Walker, holotype ♂. 47. Sciophila ciliata Edwards, lectotype ♂. 48. Sciophila cincticornis Edwards, paralectotype ♂. 49. Sciophila fidelis Edwards, paratype ♀. 50. Sciophila fractinervis Edwards, lectotype ♂. 51. Sciophila ocreata Philippi, ♂. 52. Trizygia nitens Edwards, lectotype ♀.