A Replacement Name For A Species Of Megaselia (Diptera)

1 Pages·1994·0.2 MB·English

by  B V Brown

PROC. ENTOMOL. SOC. WASH.
96(1). 1994, p. 176
Note
A replacement name for a species of
Mi'gasclia (Diptera)
Upon synonymizing the genus name ogist's Monthly Magazine 46: 243-249). I
PlastophoraBrueswith Megaselia Rondani, propose the replacement name M. pabloi
Disney (1978, Zeitschrift fUr Angewandte (new name), to recognize the collector of
Zoologie 65: 313-319; 1986, Journal of this fly, Pablo Schild. The holotype is a fe-
Natural History 20: 111-1'il) created some male, collected in Costa Rica, and is housed
homonyms. Mostofthesealreadyhavebeen in the Museum ofZoologyofthe University
dealt with (Disney 1985, Entomologist's ofSao Paulo, Brazil.
Monthly Magazine 121: 97; 1986, Journal
Brian V. Brown, Entomology Section,
of Natural History 20: 777-787), but one Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
remains: Plastophora tarsalis Borgmeier
County. 900Exposition Boulevard, LosAn-
(1970, Studia Entomologica 13: 465-470)
became a junior secondar\' homonym of geles, California 90007.
Megaselia tarsalis (Wood) (1910, Entomol-