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Issue: Vol. 4232 No. 1: 15 Feb. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-02-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4232.1.12
Page range: 144–150
Abstract views: 81
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Out of the South? The first Afrotropical record of Prochyliza Walker (Diptera: Piophilidae), with description of a new species

Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, SW7 5BD London, UK.
Department of Natural Sciences, National Museum Wales, CF10 3NP Cardiff, UK.
Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, SW7 5BD London, UK.
Diptera Aldabra Indian Ocean La Réunion new synonymy zoogeography

Abstract

The genus Prochyliza Walker is recorded for the first time from the Afrotropical Region. A new species, Prochyliza ignifera sp. nov., is described from the Indian Ocean islands of Aldabra and La Réunion. The status of this species as possibly the most primitive in the genus Prochyliza is hypothesised and discussed, raising some questions about the taxonomy and the zoogeographical origin of the group. The holotype of Piophila viridicollis Macquart from La Réunion was studied and it is instated as a subjective junior synonym of Piophila casei (Linnaeus), syn. nov.

 

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