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Issue: Vol. 3887 No. 1: 21 Nov. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-11-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3887.1.1
Page range: 1–36
Abstract views: 27
PDF downloaded: 3

A revision of the New Zealand species of Howickia Richards

School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada N1G 2W1.
School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada N1G 2W1.
Key Laboratory of Southern Subtropical Plant Diversity, Fairylake Botanical Garden, Shenzhen & Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China 518004.
Sphaeroceridae Limosininae Howickia Biroina Apterobiroina wing loss New Zealand flightless Diptera

Abstract

Howickia Richards 1951 is redefined to include all wingless or strongly brachypterous Sphaeroceridae in New Zealand as well as two newly described fully winged species, H. oliveri and H. lepidostylus. Biroina Richards 1973 is newly treated as a junior subjective synonym of Howickia. The following new flightless species are described from New Zealand: H. bicolor, H. cordata, H. exasperata, H. harrisoni, H. mercurialis, H. nigrilegula, H. nigriventer, H. nudistylus, H. omamari, H. palmai, H. regalis, H. tangata, H. wahaika and H. zonula.