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Holops Philippi 1865

Description

Genus Holops Philippi, 1865: 645.

Type species: Holops cyaneus Philippi, 1865; by present designation.

Refs.: Kertész, 1909: 21 (cat.); Edwards, 1930: 188 (in key), 196–197 (comments); Winterton & Gillung, 2012: 3 (in key); Schlinger et al., 2013: 62 (in key).

cyaneus Philippi, 1865: 645, pl. XXV fig. 20.

Syntypes: Valdivia, San Juan (no type specimens deposited in MNNC). Dist.: Coquimbo (Choapa: El Ñague); Valparaíso (Marga Marga: Marga Marga; Quillota: Quillota; San Antonio: Santo Domingo; Valparaíso: Valparaíso, Horcones); Metropolitana (Cordillera: El Manzano, La Obra); Maule (Cauquenes: Constitución; Talca: Río Claro at Hacienda Las Mercedes); Biobío (Arauco: Parque Nacional Nahuelbuta; Ñuble: Puente Marchant), La Araucanía (Cautín: Conguillio); Los Ríos (Valdivia: San Juan, Santo Domingo).

Refs.: Schiner, 1868: 142 (ident.); Reed, 1888: 288 (cat.); Hunter, 1901: 151 (cat.); Kertész, 1909: 21 (cat.); Gazulla & Ruiz, 1928: 293 (dist.); Edwards, 1930: 197 (redescr.); Stuardo, 1946: 103 (cat.).

frauenfeldii Schiner, 1868: 143.

Holotype: Chile (NMW). Dist.: Valparaíso (Marga Marga: Colliguay, Perales; Valparaíso: Mantagua, Quintero, Reñaca); Metropolitana (Cordillera: La Obra, Las Vertientes—on dead branches of Eucalyptus sp.); O’Higgins (Cardenal Caro: Tanumé); Maule (Talca: Altos de Vilches); Biobío (Ñuble: Los Lleuques, Piedras Comadres); La Araucanía (Malleco: Termas de Tolhuaca); Los Ríos (Valdivia: Santo Domingo)

Refs.: Hunter, 1901: 151 (cat.); Kertész, 1909: 21 (cat.); Edwards, 1930: 197 (redescr.); Stuardo, 1946: 103 (cat., synonymy).

= Holops nigrapex Bigot, 1878: 96. Syntypes or holotype (UMO); Kertész, 1909: 21 (as valid species); Edwards, 1930: 197 (as synonym of H. frauenfeldi, misspelling); Stuardo, 1946: 103 (syn.).

virens Bigot, 1878: 96

Holotype: Chile (UMO). Dist.: Valparaíso (Valparaíso: Valparaíso); Metropolitana (Santiago: Cerro San Cristóbal, on flowers of Podanthus mitiqui Lindl.; Maipo: Rangue—in dead branches of Cryptocarya alba); Biobío (Ñuble: Cerro Malalcura, San Fabián de Alico); La Araucanía (Malleco: Parque Nacional Nahuelbuta—in dead branches of Podocarpus saligna).

Refs.: Kertész, 1909: 21 (cat.); Edwards, 1930: 197 (redescr.); Stuardo, 1946: 103 (cat.); Stuardo, 1980: 97 (collect data).

Notes

Published as part of González, Christian R., Elgueta, Mario & Ramirez, Francisco, 2018, A catalog of Acroceridae (Diptera) from Chile, pp. 427-440 in Zootaxa 4374 (3) on pages 435-436, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4374.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/1155465

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MNNC , NMW
Family
Acroceridae
Genus
Holops
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Philippi
Taxon rank
genus
Type status
holotype , syntype
Taxonomic concept label
Holops Philippi, 1865 sec. González, Elgueta & Ramirez, 2018

References

  • Philippi, R. A. (1865) Aufzahlung der chilenischen Dipteren. Verhandlungen der k. - k. Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 15, 595 - 782, pls. xxiii-xxix.
  • Kertesz, C. (1909) Catalogus dipterorum Hucusque Descriptorum. Vol. IV. Lipsiae, Budapestini, 348 pp.
  • Edwards, F. W. (1930). Bombyliidae, Nemestrinidae and Cyrtidae. Diptera of Patagonia and South Chile, Part V (Fascicle 2), 162 - 197.
  • Winterton, S. L. & Gillung, J. P. (2012) A new species of spider fly in the genus Sabroskya Schlinger from Malawi, with a key to Acrocerinae world genera (Diptera, Acroceridae). ZooKeys, 171, 1 - 15. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 171.2137
  • Schlinger, E. I., Gillung, J. P. & Borkent, C. J. (2013) New spider flies from the Neotropical Region (Diptera, Acroceridae) with a key to New World genera. ZooKeys, 270, 59 - 93. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 270.4476
  • Schiner, R. J. (1868) Acroceridae. In: Reise der osterreichischen Fregatte Novara u a m die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Zweiter Band. 1. Abtheilung B. Karl Gerold's Sohn, Wien, pp. 140 - 145
  • Reed, E. C. (1888) Catalogo de los insectos dipteros de Chile. Anales de la Universidad de Chile, 73, 271 - 316.
  • Hunter, W. D. (1901) Catalogue of the Diptera of South America. Part II, Homodactyla and Mydiadae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 27, 121 - 155.
  • Gazulla, P. & Ruiz, F. (1928) Los insectos de la Hacienda de " Las Mercedes ". Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, 32, 288 - 305.
  • Stuardo, C. (1946) Catalogo de los dipteros de Chile. Ministerio de Agricultura, Impresiones Universitaria, Santiago, 250 pp.
  • Bigot, J. M. F. (1878) Donne la description d'un nouveaux genre de Dipteres et celles de deux especies du genre Holops, tribu des Cyrtidae (Rondani). Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France, Serie 5, Tome 8, LXXI - LXXII (71 - 72).
  • Stuardo, C. (1980) Notas biologicas sobre Acroceridae de Chile (Diptera). Revista Chilena de Entomologia, 10, 97.