Pachylophus halteratus Becker, 1910

Deeming, John C., 2018, A revision of the Afrotropical species of Pachylophus Loew (Diptera: Chloropidae) and some related Ovoviviparous genera, Zootaxa 4482 (1), pp. 1-51 : 12

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4482.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6490801

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038487A7-7A57-FFE6-FF1C-B71FEEA0100E

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scientific name

Pachylophus halteratus Becker, 1910
status

 

Pachylophus halteratus Becker, 1910 View in CoL

( Plate 8 View PLATE 8 , Figs 34, 35)

Pachylophus halteratus Becker, 1910: 394 View in CoL

Described from Tanzania and further reported from Kenya, Zaire and Madagascar. Dr. Ebejer has compared the specimen from Samaru listed below with the holotype and found it to compare perfectly.

Material: 2♀, (form with knob of haltere pale) ETHIOPIA: Gojam Province , swamp 1km N. of most southerly point of Tana Lake, swamp, 27.iii.1995, (X1031), M. v. Tschirnhaus ( ZSM) ; 1♀, Welo Prov., 8.5km N. of Hayk , 11°22'N 39°38'E, 17.iii.1995, (X1020), M. von Tschirnhaus ( ZSM) GoogleMaps ; 6♂ 5♀, Gonder Prov., Blue Nile at T'is Isat Fwafwate waterfall, 28.iii.1995, (X1032), M.v. Tschirnhaus (all in ZSM but 1 pair in NMWC) ; 1♂ 1♀, N. NIGERIA: Bauchi, pond with Oryza barthii , 1–12.iv.1990, J.C. Deeming ; 1♀, Zaria, Samaru, 18.i.1968, J.C. Deeming; 1♀, ZIMBABWE: Harare, National Botanic Gardens , 11.vi.1997, W. Rossi (all in NMWC) ; 3♀ MADAGASCAR: Amparafaravola (O. du Lac Alaotra), 1921, R. Decary ; 1♀, Env [irons] de Tananarive, 1924, Waterlot (all in MNHN) .

Of Decary’s Madagascan material only a single female was correctly identified, the remainder standing under lugens and fossulatus .

ZSM

Bavarian State Collection of Zoology

NMWC

National Museum of Wales

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Chloropidae

Genus

Pachylophus

Loc

Pachylophus halteratus Becker, 1910

Deeming, John C. 2018
2018
Loc

Pachylophus halteratus

Becker, 1910 : 394
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