Oreoleptis torrenticola

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Tabanomorpha

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Antliophora Ordo: Diptera Subordo: Brachycera Infraordo: Tabanomorpha

Familia: Oreoleptidae
Genus: Oreoleptis
Species: Oreoleptis torrenticola

Name

Oreoleptis torrenticola Zloty, Sinclair & Pritchard, 2005: 256

Holotype: CNC. ♂. CANADA: Alberta, Ram River (52°05′20″N, 115°50′20″W) on Road #940 (Forestry Trunk Road), 300–500 m above falls, reared from larva collected 6.vi.1999 (Zloty & Pritchard), pupated 8.ix.1999, adult emerged 21.ix.1999.

Type locality: CANADA: Alberta, Ram River (52°05′20″N, 115°50′20″W) on Road #940 (Forestry Trunk Road), 300–500 m above falls.

References

Primary references

• Zloty, J., Sinclair, B.J., Pritchard, G. 2005. Discovered in our backyard: a new genus and species of a new family from the Rocky Mountains of North America (Diptera, Tabanomorpha). Systematic Entomology 30(2): 248–266. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2005.00270.x .

Additional references

• Hatten, T. D., Biggam, R., Jorgensen, J., Anders, P. 2013. Oreoleptis torrenticola Zloty, Sinclair and Pritchard (Diptera: Tabanomorpha) Discovered in a Fourth-Order Stream of the Cascade Mountains of Eastern Washington. Western North American Naturalist 73(2): 237–239. DOI: 10.3398/064.073.0214.