Published May 4, 2023 | Version v1
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Drino juxtina Robineau-Desvoidy 1863, comb. nov.

  • 1. Department of Biology and Biotechnologies " Charles Darwin " & Museum of Zoology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. pierfilippo. cerretti @ uniroma 1. it; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9204 - 3352
  • 2. Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. absinthii @ gmail. com
  • 3. Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark. vmichelsen @ snm. ku. dk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9490 - 1162 Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark. tpape @ snm. ku. dk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6609 - 0609 Corresponding author

Description

12. Spinuphalla juxtina Lehrer, 2013: 12.

Figs 9, 10.

TYPE LOCALITY: Benin, Littoral, Cotonou [Bénin... Cotonou, XII.2003, leg. G. Goergen ”].

TYPE SPECIMEN: Holotype ♁, by original designation, deposited in SMNHTAU.

CURRENT STATUS: Drino (Palexorista Townsend, 1921) juxtina (Lehrer, 2013), comb. nov.

FAMILY: Tachinidae.

REMARKS: Holotype in fair condition, but somewhat greasy and with wings and legs partly damaged. It is direct-pinned, with terminalia dissected and kept in a vial with glycerin on same pin. This is the first record of Drino from Benin (O’Hara & Cerretti 2016).

Notes

Published as part of Cerretti, P., Morgulis, E., Michelsen, V. & Pape, T., 2023, Nominal genera and species of Diptera misidentified as to family by A. Z. Lehrer (Diptera: Muscidae, Tachinidae), pp. 189-194 in Zootaxa 5278 (1) on page 193, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5278.1.11, http://zenodo.org/record/7894788

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Tachinidae
Genus
Drino
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Robineau-Desvoidy
Taxonomic status
comb. nov.
Taxon rank
genus
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Drino (Lehrer, 2013) sec. Cerretti, Morgulis, Michelsen & Pape, 2023

References

  • O'Hara, J. E. & Cerretti, P. (2016) Annotated catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta, Diptera) of the Afrotropical Region, with the description of seven new genera. ZooKeys, 575, 1 - 344. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 575.6072