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(Leucopella) Malloch

  • 1. The Dipterists Society, P. O. Box 231113, Sacramento, California, 95823, USA.
  • 2. Área de Entomología, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago, Chile.

Description

Subgenus LEUCOPELLA Malloch

LEUCOPELLA Malloch, 1927: 576. Proposed as subgenus. Type-species: Leucopis africana Malloch, 1927: 576 (original designation). References — Malloch, 1933: 384 (in key); McAlpine, 1960: 52 (note), 54 (in key); Gaimari & Raspi, 2002: 241 (revision, northeastern African species); Tanasijtshuk, 2003: 174 (classification); Gaimari, 2010: 1000 (biology), 1002 (in key), 2021: 1793 (biology); Ross et al., 2012: 98 (biology); Gaimari & Havill, 2021: 26 (in key).

Notes

Published as part of Gaimari, Stephen D., González, Christian R. & Elgueta, Mario, 2024, A catalog of the Chamaemyiidae of Chile (Diptera: Lauxanioidea), pp. 555-569 in Zootaxa 5399 (5) on page 559, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5399.5.5, http://zenodo.org/record/10517506

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Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Scientific name authorship
Malloch
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References

  • Malloch, J. R. (1927) A new agromyzid fly of economic importance from Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 9, 19, 575 - 577. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222932708655537
  • Malloch, J. R. (1933) Acalyptrata (Helomyzidae, Trypetidae, Sciomyzidae, Sapromyzidae, etc.). Diptera of Patagonia and South Chile, Part VI, Fascicle 4, 177 - 391, pls. II - VII.
  • McAlpine, J. F. (1960) A new species of Leucopis (Leucopella) from Chile and a key to the world genera and subgenera of Chamaemyiidae (Diptera). The Canadian Entomologist, 92 (1), 51 - 58. https: // doi. org / 10.4039 / Ent 9251 - 1
  • Gaimari, S. D. & Raspi, A. (2002) The species of Leucopis, subgenus Leucopella Malloch (Diptera: Chamaemyiidae), from northeastern Africa and Yemen. African Entomology, 10 (2), 241 - 264.
  • Tanasijtshuk, V. N. (2003) Geographical distribution and system of silver-flies (Diptera, Chamaemyiidae). Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 299, 167 - 180.
  • Gaimari, S. D. (2010) Chamaemyiidae. In: Brown, B. V., Borkent, A., Cumming, J. M., Wood, D. M., Woodley, N. E. & Zumbado, M. (Eds.), Manual of Central American Diptera. Vol. 2. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, pp. 997 - 1007.
  • Ross, D. W., Gaimari, S. D., Kohler, G. R., Wallin, K. F. & Grubin, S. M. (2012) Chamaemyiid predators of the hemlock woolly adelgid from the Pacific Northwest. In: Reardon, R. & Onken, B. (Eds.), Implementation and Status of Biological Control of the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid. U. S. Forest Service Publication FHTET- 2011 - 04. U. S. Forest Service, Morgantown, West Virginia, pp. 1 - 230.
  • Gaimari, S. D. & Havill, N. P. (2021) A new genus of Chamaemyiidae (Diptera: Lauxanioidea) predacious on Adelgidae (Hemiptera), with a key to chamaemyiid species associated with Pinaceae-feeding Sternorrhyncha. Zootaxa, 5067 (1), 1 - 39. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5067.1.1