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Rachiptera parallela Norrbom & Sutton & Steck & Monzón 2010, new combination

Description

Rachiptera parallela (Hendel), new combination

Figs. 105–106

Strobelia parallela Hendel 1914: 51.

Distribution. This species has been known only from the type series, collected at Sarampiuni, Bolivia (La Paz, Mapiri area) at 700 m and Callanga, Peru. The locality in Bolivia is in the Yungas region, as is the locality where an additional male was reared.

Biology. One male was reared from a simple stem gall (Fig. 106) on Baccharis trinervis (Lam.) Pers.

Material examined. BOLIVIA: La Paz: NE of Santa Fe, Colonia Luayza, Entel (telephone) antenna, 15°46'35.2"S 67°35'48.1"W, 1900 m, emerged 28 Apr 2001 reared ex stem gall on Baccharis trinervis (01- Bol-23) collected 13 Apr 2001, A. L. Norrbom, 1♂ (USNM USNMENT00055061).

Notes

Published as part of Norrbom, Allen L., Sutton, Bruce D., Steck, Gary J. & Monzón, José, 2010, New genera, species and host plant records of Nearctic and Neotropical Tephritidae (Diptera) 2398, pp. 1-65 in Zootaxa 2398 on page 52

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
USNM
Event date
2001-04-13
Family
Tephritidae
Genus
Rachiptera
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
USNMENT00055061
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Norrbom & Sutton & Steck & Monzón
Species
parallela
Taxonomic status
comb. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2001-04-13/28

References

  • Hendel, F. (1914) Die Bohrfliegen Sudamerikas. Ubersicht und Katalog der bisher aus der neotropischen Region beschriebenen Tephritinen. Abhandlungen und Berichte des Koniglichen Zoologischen und Anthropologisch-Ethnographischen Museums zu Dresden (1912), 14 (3): 1 - 84.