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Issue: Vol. 4227 No. 1: 1 Feb. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-01-31
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4227.1.5
Page range: 89–105
Abstract views: 96
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The fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) described by Theodor Becker from Iran and Western China revisited in the collections of the Zoological Institute, Saint-Petersburg and Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin

I.I.Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, NAS of Ukraine, Bogdan Chmielnicki St., 15/2, Kyiv, 01601 Ukraine.
I.I.Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, NAS of Ukraine, Bogdan Chmielnicki St., 15/2, Kyiv, 01601 Ukraine.
Diptera Tephritidae types Becker

Abstract

The type specimens of fruit flies described by Dr. Theodor Becker based on material collected in China (Xinjiang and Xizang) and Iran by Russian expeditions directed by Petr Kozlov and Mykola Zarudny are listed and figured. They are deposited in the collection of the Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg with some duplicates in the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin. Current concepts of the species, their morphological characters (illustrated by photographs of type specimens), current condition, and nomenclature are discussed.

 

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