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Issue: Vol. 2318 No. 1: 22 Dec. 2009
Type: Articles
Published: 2009-12-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2318.1.23
Page range: 552–565
Abstract views: 44
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Phylogeny and re-definition of the genus Melanophora (Diptera: Rhinophoridae), with description of a new species from Sardinia

Centro Nazionale per lo Studio e la Conservazione della Biodiversità Forestale “Bosco Fontana” – Corpo Forestale dello Stato, Via Carlo Ederle 16/a, I-37100 Verona, Italy Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell’Uomo, Sapienza Università di Roma, Viale dell’Università 32, I-00185 Rome, Italy
Natural History Museum of Denmark, Zoological Museum, Department of Entomology, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Diptera Melanophora Bequaertiana phylogeny systematics Sardinia new species new combinations

Abstract

A cladistic analysis of the genus Melanophora Meigen, 1803 (type-species: Musca grossificationis Linnaeus, 1758 [= Musca roralis Linnaeus, 1758]) is presented and the generic delimitation is critically redefined. The nominal genus-group taxon Bequaertiana Curran, 1929 (type-species: Bequaertiana argyriventris Curran, 1929) is synonymised with Melanophora Meigen syn. nov. The following new combinations are proposed: Melanophora argyriventris (Curran, 1929) comb. nov. and Melanophora basilewskyi (Peris, 1957) comb. nov. Melanophora chia sp. nov. from SW Sardinia is described, illustrated and compared with the other known species of the genus. The male of Melanophora asetosa Kugler, 1978 is described for the first time. Melanophora basilewskyi (Peris, 1957) is recorded from Kenya for the first time.

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