Revision of Camarota Meigen (Diptera: Chloropidae), with a new species from Uganda
Riccardi, Paula Raile
Tschirnhaus, Michael Von
Zootaxa
2018
2018-11-29
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Bezzi, 1908
Bezzi
1908
[151,579,1709,1736]
Insecta
Chloropidae
Camarota
GBIF
Animalia
Diptera
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226
Arthropoda
species
angustifrons
( Figs. 2, 8) Bezzi, 1908: 179–180; Becker, 1910a: 381, 410–411 (as synonym of C.“ curvinervis”, 1 specimenfrom Kenya); Becker 1910b: 410–411 ( 1♂Katona, Tanzaniaas Oscinis curvinervis; Becker, 1915: 178–179 (reactivated from synonymy); Sabrosky, 1951: 720 (taxonomy, key, 3 specimensfrom Ruwenzori, Uganda); Lamb, 1917: 48 ( 1 specimenin Museum Cambridge from Durban in South Africa); Sabrosky, 1955: 309 ( 1 femalefrom Rumonge in Burundi); Deeming, 1981: 790–793, 820 (three specimens reared from shoots of Panicumand Andropogonin Nigeria, key, figs. of terminalia and larva); Ferrar, 1987: 115, 119, 619 (details after Deeming); Spencer, 1985: 179 (cephalopharyngeal skeleton compared).
Material examined: 1 ♀ Kenya, Rift Valley, Ol Arabe Gorge, 18.xi.1988, R. K. Butlin[ NMWZ] (photo).
Comments.This species described from Massaua, Ethiopia, the city at the Red Seatoday in Eritrea, was long time considered as a synonym of the European C. curvipennis(as curvinervisauctt.). But already Becker (1915)recognized the taxon as a valid species. Sabrosky (1951)distinguished it in a key from the Palaearctic species.
Distribution. Eritrea, Kenya*, Nigeria, Rwanda–Burundi, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda.
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[393,1336,151,176]
1988-11-18
NMWZ
R. K. Butlin
Kenya
Rift Valley
Ol Arabe Gorge
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