Rudolfina cavernicola Marshall & Fitzgerald, 1997

Paiero, Steven Mark & Marshall, Stephen A., 2020, A revision of the genus Rudolfina Roháček (Sphaeroceridae: Limosininae), European Journal of Taxonomy 593, pp. 1-48 : 16-18

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2020.593

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B08C59C9-6F91-4F3B-B595-5C6E7E6710D0

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3665065

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Rudolfina cavernicola Marshall & Fitzgerald, 1997
status

 

Rudolfina cavernicola Marshall & Fitzgerald, 1997 View in CoL

Fig. 21A View Fig

Material examined

The original type series from Kremmer’s Cave was re-examined along with the following material.

MEXICO • 1 ♂; San Luis Potosí, Cueva de Cinquenta y Ocho, 5 km S of San Francisco, 40 km E of San Luis Potosí, Municipio de Zaraqoza ; 3000 m a.s.l.; 18 May 1972; Elliott, Ralph and Lynn leg.; DEBU .

Description

See Marshall and Fitzgerald 1997.

Distribution

Nearctic: United States of America (AZ, CO); Mexico (San Luis Potosí, newly recorded here).

Remarks

This species is newly recorded from Mexico. The illustration of this species that accompanied the original description ( Marshall & Fitzgerald 1997: fig. 1) includes what appears to be a large seta coming off the anterior base of the surstylus; this is an unsocketed laminate lobe.

Marshall S. A. & Fitzgerald S. 1997. Rudolfina cavernicola, a new species of cave-associated Sphaeroceridae (Diptera) from Colorado and Arizona. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 99: 641 - 644.

Gallery Image

Fig. 21. Distribution of species of New World Rudolfina Roháček, 1987. A. R. cavernicola Marshall & Fitzgerald, 1997, R. digitata Marshall, 1991 and R. tumida sp. nov. B. R. bucki sp. nov., R. megepandria sp. nov. and R. howdeni sp. nov. C. R. pauca sp. nov., R. pilosa sp. nov., R. newtoni sp. nov. and R. remiforma sp. nov. D. R. exuberata sp. nov.

DEBU

Ontario Insect Collection, University of Guelph

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

SuperFamily

Sphaeroceroidea

Family

Sphaeroceridae

SubFamily

Limosininae

Genus

Rudolfina