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Issue: Vol. 2726 No. 1: 20 Dec. 2010
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2010-12-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2726.1.4
Page range: 68
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Pericoma nielseni nom. nov., a replacement name for Pericoma formosa Nielsen, 1964, preoccupied by Pericoma formosa Meunier, 1905 (Diptera: Psychodidae)

Gunnar Mikalsen Kvifte, Dept. of Natural History, Bergen Museum, University of Bergen, P.O. Box 7800, N-5020 Bergen
Diptera Psychodidae

Abstract

Pericoma formosa Meunier, 1905 was described from Baltic amber and is of dubious systematic placement within the Psychodinae (Hennig, 1972; Meunier, 1905). Pericoma formosa Nielsen, 1964 was described from Zealand in Denmark and has later been found in Norway, France, Finland and the Czech and Slovak Republics (Ježek, 2006; Nielsen, 1964). The current work resolves the hitherto unrecognised homonymy of these names.

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