Melaloncha rubricornis, BORGMEIER, 1968

Brown, Brian V., 2004, Revision of the subgenus Udamochiras of Melaloncha beekilling flies (Diptera: Phoridae: Metopininae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 140 (1), pp. 1-42 : 35

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00086.x

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5491134

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1C4A482B-3E16-4F26-FCF4-3E0CFC25FBB2

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Carolina

scientific name

Melaloncha rubricornis
status

 

MELALONCHA RUBRICORNIS BORGMEIER View in CoL

Melaloncha rubricornis Borgmeier, 1924: 17–18 View in CoL .

Holotype. ♂, BRAZIL: Rio de Janeiro: Petrópolis, 22.i.1923, Ronchi [ LACM ENT 122521 View Materials ] ( MZSP).

Species recognition. This species is known only from the male sex, differentiated by Borgmeier from other species by the wing venation (e.g. Borgmeier, 1971: 130). He stated that the venation of this species was identical with that of M. piliapex , a taxon that, at the time, was a mixture of two species. As Borgmeier (1971) stated: ‘The segregation of species is not easy. Owing to sexual dimorphism, it is especially difficult to associate the males with respective females. it is therefore highly inconvenient to base new species on males alone, as I unfortunately did several times in the past.’

LACM

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

MZSP

Sao Paulo, Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de Sao Paulo

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Phoridae

Genus

Melaloncha

Loc

Melaloncha rubricornis

Brown, Brian V. 2004
2004
Loc

Melaloncha rubricornis

Borgmeier T 1924: 18
1924
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