Polytrichophora desmata

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ephydroidea

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: Muscomorpha Sectio: Schizophora Subsectio: Acalyptrata Superfamilia: Ephydroidea

Familia: Ephydridae
Genus: Polytrichophora
Species: Polytrichophora desmata

Name

• Polytrichophora desmata (Williston 1896: 395)

Holotype: BMNH, ♂; “Type [round label with a red border]/Windward side St. Vincent, W.I. H. H. Smith./W.Indies. 1907–66./Psilopa desmata Will [handwritten, two red submarginal borders].”

Type locality: West Indies. St. Vincent, windward side.

Mentions

• Psilopa desmata Williston 1896: 395. Wirth 1968a: 9 [Neotropical catalog; listed as an unrecognized species].
• Polytrichophora desmata Mathis and Edmiston 1991: 826 [generic combination]. Mathis and Zatwarnicki 1995: 185 [world catalog]. Zatwarnicki and Mathis 2001: 46 [figs of ♂ terminalia]. Mathis & Zatwarnicki, 2012, figs 79–83.
• Polytrichophora boriqueni Cresson 1930: 77; 1946: 143 [review of Neotropical fauna]. Wirth 1968: 8 [Neotropical catalog]. Mathis and Edmiston 1991: 826 [synonymy].

References

• Williston, S., 1896: On the Diptera of St. Vincent (West Indies). The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1896: 253–446. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1896.tb00965.x.

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• Mathis, W.N. & Zatwarnicki, T. 2012. A revision of the New World species of Polytrichophora Cresson and Facitrichophora, new genus (Diptera, Ephydridae). ZooKeys 231: 1–116. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.231.3687 . Reference page.