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Issue: Vol. 4171 No. 1: 27 Sept. 2016
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-09-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.12
Page range: 191–195
Abstract views: 134
PDF downloaded: 55

The identity of Calliphora bezzii Zumpt, 1956 (Diptera, Calliphoridae)

University of Stavanger, Faculty of Arts and Education, Department of Early Childhood Education, NO-4036 Stavanger, Norway.
Diptera Calliphoridae

Abstract

The holotype male of a nominal species described from Italy, Calliphora bezzii Zumpt, 1956, including a microscope slide of its terminalia, was examined. The holotype is shown to belong to the Nearctic taxon Calliphora latifrons Hough, 1899. Thus, Calliphora bezzii is a junior synonym of C. latifrons, syn. nov.

 

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