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Perisiella Zumpt 1958

  • 1. Taxonomy and Ecology Laboratory, Department of Medical Entomology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Toyama 1 - 23 - 1, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162 - 8640, Japan. E-mail: fly @ nih. go. jp
  • 2. Research Associate, Entomology Centre, National Museum of Namibia, P. O. Box 1203, Windhoek, Namibia & Present address: Head of Entomology, Albany Museum, Rhodes University, Somerset Street, Grahamstown 6139, South Africa. E-mail: a. kirk-spriggs @ ru. ac. za

Description

Genus: Perisiella Zumpt, 1958 a: 187.

TYPE SPECIES: Idia archora Wiedemann, 1824, by original designation.

NOTES: The two described species are restricted to the Afrotropical Region (Pont 1980: 783).

Perisiella anchora (Wiedemann, 1824: 50) (Idia).

Fig. 103.

TYPE LOCALITY: ‘Guinea’.

DISTRIBUTION: Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia * and Nigeria.

MATERIAL: 1♂, Katima Mulilo, 11–14.iv.1997, Marais (YP) floodplain savanna.

NOTES: Biology, life history and immature stages unknown, and the genus is not mentioned by Ferrar (1987). In Namibia collected in yellow pans in April. The single Namibian record is from the ‘mesic’ savanna biome of north­eastern Namibia (Fig. 103).

Notes

Published as part of Kurahashi, Hiromu & Kirk-Spriggs, Ashley H., 2006, The Calliphoridae of Namibia (Diptera: Oestroidea), pp. 1-131 in Zootaxa 1322 (1) on pages 93-94, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1322.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5071123

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
LOCALITY , SPECIES , YP
Event date
1997-04-11
Family
Rhiniidae
Genus
Perisiella
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Zumpt
Taxon rank
genus
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
1997-04-11/14
Taxonomic concept label
Perisiella Zumpt, 1958 sec. Kurahashi & Kirk-Spriggs, 2006