Hybobata scapulifera Bigot 1886, new combination
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Description
Hybobata scapulifera (Bigot 1886) new combination
Figs 5,6
Taeniaptera scapulifera Bigot, 1886: 377
Mimegralla scapulifera, Steyskal 1980, Barraclough 1991.
Diagnosis. Basal halves of mid and hind femora yellow, distal halves with two black rings. Anterior fifth of thorax orange to reddish brown, balance of thorax black to dark brown.
Type material. Holotype (♂, Bigot collection, Oxford University, photographs examined) Madagascar, "Nossi Be" (Nosy Be), J. Bigot.
Material examined. Madagascar, Antsirinana, dry forest 7kmN Joffreville, 426m, 20–27.Jan.2007, Malaise trap, M. Irwin, R. Harin'Hala (1♀, CAS)
Comments. This species is known only from the type locality and one nearby locality in northern Madagascar. The coloration seems unmistakable and this species is easily separated from the only other Malagasy Hybobata.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CAS
- Event date
- 2007-01-20
- Family
- Micropezidae
- Genus
- Hybobata
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Bigot
- Species
- scapulifera
- Taxonomic status
- comb. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 2007-01-20/27
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hybobata scapulifera (Bigot, 1886) sec. Marshall, 2017
References
- Bigot, J. M. F. (1886) Dipteres nouveaux ou peu connus. 29 e partie (suite) (1). XXXVII. 2 e. Essai d'une classification synoptique du Groupe des Tanypezidi (mihi) et description de genres et d'especes inedits. Annales de la Societe Entommologiques de France, Series 6, 6, 369 ‾ 392.
- Steyskal, G. C. (1980) Family Micropezidae. In: Crosskey, R. W. (Ed.), Catalog of the Diptera of the Afrotropical Region. British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. 579 ‾ 582.
- Barraclough, D. A. (1991) Review of the Madagascan Taeniapterinae (Diptera: Micropezidae), with the description of a remarkably elongate - legged new genus and first record of Rainieria Rondani from the subregion. Annals of the Natal Museum, 32, 1 ‾ 11.