Morellia, Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830

Pamplona, Denise, Nihei, Silvio S., Couri, Márcia S. & Pont, Adrian C., 2016, Taxonomy of Morellia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Muscidae): revision of the subgenera Morellia s. str. and Parapyrellia Townsend, Zootaxa 4163 (1), pp. 1-110 : 13

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4163.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:930AF345-15AD-443A-A3AE-328178ECB6C9

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4547374

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5F52879A-4901-FFDB-A295-19B9FE41FD97

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Plazi

scientific name

Morellia
status

 

Subgenus MORELLIA Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 View in CoL View at ENA

Diagnosis (modified from Nihei & Carvalho [2009]). Colour metallic bluish-black to violaceous; wing with or without maculae (maculate in several Neotropical species). Female with proclinate fronto-orbital setae usually developed; fronto-orbital plate setulose at least on upper half; interfrontal seta absent. Postsutural intra-alars 1; intrapostalar seta present. Prosternum setulose or bare. Katepisternals 1+2. Wing with the basal portion of stemvein setulose or bare dorsally and ventrally; apical portion of stem-vein setulose or bare dorsally; R4+5 setulose dorsally and ventrally (in some species bare ventrally); M curved forward towards R4+5 apically. Lower calypter enlarged posteriorly, extending under base of scutellum. Subcostal sclerite bare. Male mid femur of some species with a dorsal preapical protuberance bearing a dense set of setulae. Calcar strong, weak or absent (some Neotropical species).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Muscidae

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