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Issue: Vol. 4277 No. 2: 16 Jun. 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-06-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4277.2.12
Page range: 295–300
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African Spilogona Schnabl: morphology of the male terminalia and description of a new species (Diptera: Muscidae)

Museu Nacional, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, Rio de Janeiro, 20.940–040, RJ, Brazil.
Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PW, United Kingdom.
Diptera Muscidae

Abstract

Spilogona breviaristata sp. nov. from South Africa is described and the morphology of the male terminalia of seven African Spilogona Schnabl (Diptera, Muscidae) species are described and illustrated: Spilogona biguttata Emden, Spilogona fuscotriangulata Emden, Spilogona natalensis Zielke, Spilogona pertinisetodes Emden, Spilogona quasifasciata Emden, Spilogona semifasciata Emden and Spilogona spinipes (Bigot). The material studied is deposited in the Natural History Museum (BMNH), London, United Kingdom, and paratypes of the new species are also in the Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH), Oxford, United Kingdom.

 

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