Melaloncha mexicana, Borgmeier, 1971

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 : 18

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5491112

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1C4A482B-3E25-4F15-FEC3-3E69FD26FC8F

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Carolina

scientific name

Melaloncha mexicana
status

 

M. MEXICANA View in CoL -SUBGROUP

Diagnosis. Ovipositor with large ventral setae at apical one-third ( Figs 45-47 View Figures 44–47 ).

Included species. This group includes M. spicula sp. nov., M. mexicana Borgmeier and M. hamata sp. nov. The latter two species are closely related and are placed in the M. mexicana -series (below). All specimens were collected from Mexico to northern Costa Rica, near the northern range of the genus.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Phoridae

Genus

Melaloncha

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