Orthoceratium sabulosum

Orthoceratium sabulosum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Empidoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Antliophora Ordo: Diptera Subordo: Brachycera Infraordo: Asilomorpha Superfamilia: Empidoidea

Familia: Dolichopodidae
Subfamilia: Hydrophorinae
Genus: Orthoceratium
Species: Orthoceratium sabulosum

Name

Orthoceratium sabulosum (Becker, 1907)

Lectotype: ZMHB. ♂, TUNISIA: [Tunis governate] “Tunis904” / “Ujhelyi”, [bottom side] “X 26”; “Alloeoneurus” / “sabulosus Beck.” / “det. Becker”; [red rectangular] “Lectotypus”; “Zool. Mus.” / “Berlin” [ZMHB] (TN-01). PARALECTOTYPE ♀, TUNISIA: “Tunis904” / “Ujhelyi”, [bottom side] “XI 2”; [red rectangular] “Typus”; “Zool. Mus.” / “Berlin” [ZMHB] (TN-01). (designated by Pollet & Stark, 2018)

Type locality: Tunis (Tunisia).

Synonymy

• Musca formosa Haliday, 1832: 356 [syn. n.: Pollet & Stark, 2018]
  • Type locality: Cheshire (Great Britain).
• Medeterus viridipes Macquart, 1834: 452 [syn. n.: Pollet & Stark, 2018]
  • Type locality: Bordeaux (France).
• Alloeoneurus sabulosus Becker, 1907: 112
• Orthoceratium sabulosum: Kertész, 1909: 305

References

Primary references

• Becker, T. 1907. Die Ergebnisse meiner dipterologischen Frühjahrsreise nach Algier und Tunis. 1906. Zeitschrift für Systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie 7: 33–61, 97–128, 225–256, 369–407, 454. BHL.
• Haliday, A.H. 1832. The characters of two new dipterous genera, with indications of some generic subdivisions and several undescribed species of Dolichopodidae. The Zoological Journal 5 (1830/1831): 350–367. BHL.
• Kertész, K. 1909. Catalogus dipterorum hucusque descriptorum. Volumen VI. Empididae, Dolichopodidae, Musidoridae. G. Engelmann, Budapestini [=Budepest], 362 pp. BHL.
• Macquart, J. 1834. Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Diptères I. In Roret, N.E. (ed). Nouvelles suites à Buffon, formant, avec les œuvres de cet auteur, un cours complet d’histoire naturelle. Collection accompagnée de planches. Paris, 578 pp. BHL. Reference page. 
• Pollet, M. & Stark, A. 2018. The quest for the identity of Orthoceratium lacustre (Scopoli, 1763) reveals centuries of misidentifications (Diptera, Dolichopodidae). ZooKeys 782: 49–79. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.782.26329 Reference page.