Procanace undetermined Hendel 1913
- 1. Senior Co-operating Entomologist, c / o Entomology Section, Museo di Storia Naturale, S. Croce 1730, Venezia, Italy. munari. lorenzo @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7234 - 349 X
- 2. Senior Curator in Charge of Diptera and Siphonaptera, Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, United Kingdom.
- 3. Geography Department, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa.
Description
Procanace sp. grisescens group
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Material examined. Mauritius: 1♀, Black River, Petite Case Noyale, 20°24′23″S, 57°22′10″E, 1–3 m, 28.i.2018, sweeping intertidal zone and coastal vegetation, A.H. Kirk-Spriggs & B.S. Muller.
Comments. Based on females alone, a reliable identification of this species is impossible. It is worth noting here the discovery of this species belonging to the P. grisescens -group, which has not been previously recorded from the Mascarenes. This genus is very widely distributed, mainly in the Pacific Ocean, with numerous species described from the Hawaiian Islands and Japan. Only three species of the P. grisescens -group are recorded from the Afrotropical Region, of which P. cogani Mathis, 1988 has been described from Seychelles (Mahé Is.) and P. pauliani Mathis & Wirth, 1979 only from Madagascar (Toliara). The third species, P. grisescens Hendel, 1913, is widely distributed in the Afrotropical, Australasian/Oceanian, and eastern Palaearctic Regions, but not yet reported from either the Mascarenes or Seychelles.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2018-01-28
- Family
- Canacidae
- Genus
- Procanace
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Hendel
- Species
- undetermined
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2018-01-28
- Taxonomic concept label
- Procanace undetermined Hendel, 1913 sec. Munari, Kirk-Spriggs & Mcgregor, 2021
References
- Mathis, W. N. (1988) Beach flies of the Republic of Seychelles (Diptera: Canacidae). Bulletin of the Washington Biological Society, 8, 22 - 29.
- Mathis, W. N. & Wirth, W. W. (1979) Beach flies of Madagascar (Diptera: Canacidae). Annals of the Natal Museum, 23, 785 - 796.
- Hendel, F. (1913) Acalyptrate Musciden (Dipt.) II. In: H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute. Supplementa Entomologica, 2, 77 - 112.