Puliciphora epichaeta (Borgmeier) Borgmeier, 2005

Disney, R. Henry L., 2005, Rudimentary halteres of some flightless female Phoridae (Diptera) reassessed, and some taxonomic implications, Zootaxa 1042, pp. 39-54 : 45

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.169846

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3512014

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C887CE-313F-FFED-364B-FECFFC065604

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scientific name

Puliciphora epichaeta (Borgmeier)
status

comb. nov.

Puliciphora epichaeta (Borgmeier) View in CoL , comb. nov.

(Fig. 13)

Homalophora epichaeta Borgmeier, 1960: 341 View in CoL .

Puliciphora mexicanae Disney, 2003a: 13 View in CoL View Cited Treatment . Syn. nov.

FIGURES 12–13. Puliciphora View in CoL females, abdominal tergites 4–6: (12) P. occidentalis View in CoL ; (13) P. epichaeta View in CoL ; Scale bars = 0.1 mm.

Among the material sent by Dr Carl Rettenmeyer were the holotype female and seven female paratypes of Homalophora epichaeta Borgmeier. Borgmeier (1960) states unequivocally that the females of this genus lack the anterior flap embraced by the front margin of abdominal tergite 5, that is to say that they lack the dorsal abdominal glands (DAGs) that discharge between abdominal tergites 4 and 5 in the females of the tribe Metopinini (see Disney 2003b). However, on remounting the type series of Homalophora epichaeta Borgmeier on slides it has been found that a small flap (and DAGs) are present at the front of T5 (Fig. 13) that is more substantial than that of Puliciphora virginiensis (Malloch) ( Fig. 21 View FIGURES 20 – 21 ). Therefore this species is herewith transferred to the genus Puliciphora . It was then found that these females will run to P. mexicanae Disney in the most recent key to the Neotropical species of this genus ( Disney 2003a). Consequently P. mexicanae must be synonymised with Puliciphora epichaeta .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Phoridae

Genus

Puliciphora

Loc

Puliciphora epichaeta (Borgmeier)

Disney, R. Henry L. 2005
2005
Loc

Puliciphora mexicanae

Disney 2003: 13
2003
Loc

Homalophora epichaeta

Borgmeier 1960: 341
1960
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