Polytrichophora orbitalis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ephydroidea

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: Muscomorpha Sectio: Schizophora Subsectio: Acalyptrata Superfamilia: Ephydroidea

Familia: Ephydridae
Genus: Polytrichophora
Species: Polytrichophora orbitalis

Name

• Polytrichophora orbitalis (Loew, 1861: 354)

Lectotype: MCZ (11147), ♀; “[United States. District of Columbia] Loew Coll./orbitalis [handwritten]/Type 11147 [red, number handwritten]/Polytrichophora orbitalis (Lw.) det WWirth ‘[19]61 [species name handwritten, black submarginal border]/LECTOTYPE Discocerina orbitalis Loew ♀ By W. N.Mathis 1990 [species name and designator handwritten, black submarginal border].”

Type locality: United States. District of Columbia: Washington (38°49.8'N, 77°00.6'W).

Mentions

• Discocerina orbitalis Loew 1861: 354.
• Polytrichophora orbitalis Cresson 1924: 161 [generic combination]; 1942: 114 [review of Nearctic fauna]. Wirth 1965: 740 [Nearctic catalog]. Mathis and Zatwarnicki 1995: 185–186 [world catalog]. Zatwarnicki and Mathis 2001: 49 [figs. ♂ terminalia]. Mathis & Zatwarnicki, 2012, figs 94–98.

References

• Loew, H., 1861: Diptera Americae septentrionalis indigena. Centuria prima. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift, 5: 307–359.

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• Mathis, W.N. & Zatwarnicki, T. 2012. A revision of the New World species of Polytrichophora Cresson and Facitrichophora, new genus (Diptera, Ephydridae). ZooKeys 231: 1–116. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.231.3687 . Reference page.