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Issue: Vol. 2999 No. 1: 19 Aug. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-08-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2999.1.5
Page range: 45–62
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Descriptions and records of the Palaearctic Molophilus Curtis (Diptera, Limoniidae)

Department of Zoology and Laboratory of Ornithology, Faculty of Science of the Palacký University, tř. Svobody 26, CZ-77146 Olomouc & Silesian Museum, Tyršova 1, CZ-74601 Opava, Czech Republic
Diptera Limoniidae Palaearctic Molophilus (Molophilus) new species redescriptions elevations in rank new replacement name lectotype designations new records

Abstract

Seven new species of Molophilus (Molophilus) are described, viz. M. (M.) creticola sp. n. (Greece (Crete)), M. (M.) cypricola sp. n. (Cyprus), M. (M.) carbonis sp. n. (Portugal), M. (M.) hradileki sp. n. (Kazakhstan), M. (M.) brevifurcatus sp. n. (Czech Republic, Slovakia), M. (M.) calabricus sp. n. (South Italy), and M. (M.) suboccultus sp. n. (Portugal). Lackschewitz’s (1940a) “varieties” obscura of M. (M.) propinquus (Egger, 1863) and testacea of M. (M.) griseus (Meigen, 1804) are elevated to species rank and redescribed, and a new replacement name, ibericus nom. n., is proposed for the former species. Lectotypes are designated for M. (M.) nigrescens Lackschewitz, 1940, M. (M.) ibericus nom. n., and M. (M.) pleuralis de Meijere, 1920, and the male terminalia are redescribed for M. (M.) nigrescens. All important characters are illustrated. New records of some other Molophilus (Molophilus) species are appended.

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