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Issue: Vol. 4619 No. 1: 18 Jun. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-06-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4619.1.11
Page range: 189–194
Abstract views: 66
PDF downloaded: 3

A new species and new records of scuttle flies (Diptera: Phoridae) from Algeria

MS & SD, National Higher School of Agronomy, Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique, Algiers. Algeria.
RHLD, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, United Kingdom.
MS & SD, National Higher School of Agronomy, Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique, Algiers. Algeria.
Diptera Phoridae new species new records Algeria

Abstract

Among seven species caught at wild boar carcasses in Algeria Megaselia falsum  Disney n. sp. is described and the hitherto unknown female of M. iberiensis Disney.

 

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