Polytrichophora sturtevantorum

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 sturtevantorum

Name

• Polytrichophora sturtevantorum Mathis & Zatwarnicki, 2012: figs 109–113

Holotype: USNM ENT 00285964, ♂; 10 Jun 2004, W. N. Mathis.

Type locality: United States. Tennessee. Shelby: Meeman Shelby State Park (Mississippi River; 35°20.4'N, 90°2.1'W; 98 m).

Etymology: "The species epithet, sturtevantorum, is a plural genitive patronym to recognize and honor a father and son. The father, Alfred H. Sturtevant (1891-1970), was a world-renowned geneticist who also conducted taxonomic research on shore flies (Sturtevant and Wheeler 1954) and was an indefatigable collector of acalyptrate Diptera. Most of A. H. Sturtevant's shore-fly collection is deposited in the USNM, where his son, William C. Sturtevant (1926-2007), was a colleague and distinguished scholar in the Department of Anthropology (USNM)."

Mentions

• Polytrichophora orbitalis of authors, not Loew [misidentification]. Deonier 1964: 121 [key, Iowa, as Discocerina orbitalis]; 165:502 [ecological observations, as Discocerina orbitalis].

References

• 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.