Amiota nigrescens, Wheeler, 1952

Jones, Lance E. & Grimaldi, David A., 2022, Revision Of The Nearctic Species Of The Genus Amiota Loew (Diptera: Drosophilidae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2022 (458), pp. 1-181 : 108

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090.458.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7506911
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3C6787ED-FF98-FFC0-62FF-FD95FC7BFA89
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scientific name	Amiota nigrescens
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THE NIGRESCENS View in CoL SPECIES GROUP (NEW GROUP)

DIAGNOSIS: Small to medium-sized flies; thorax dark blackish brown, with typical white markings; femora light brown (except some Arizona individuals of A. nigrescens ), tibiae and tarsi yellow; aristal branch lengths short to very short, branches confined to basal half; frons dark, dull. Male genitalia: Relatively simple; surstylus slen-der, armlike, with few prensisetae; outer paraphyses with one or no spines, asymmetrical in size; inner paraphyses lost.

NEARCTIC SPECIES: Amiota fulvitibia View in CoL , A. nanonigrescens View in CoL , sp. nov., and A. nigrescens Wheeler. View in CoL

COMMENTS: It is unknown whether any of the species in this group exhibit the common behavior among Amiota of being attracted to humans. All taxa seem commonly caught in Malaise, pan, and emergence traps.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Drosophilidae
Genus	Amiota