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Issue: Vol. 4000 No. 2: 14 Aug. 2015
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2015-08-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4000.2.9
Page range: 299–300
Abstract views: 37
PDF downloaded: 1

Change of name for the Oriental robber fly Nyssomyia Hull, 1962 (Diptera: Asilidae, Asilinae), nec Nyssomyia Barretto, 1962 (Diptera: Psychodidae, Phlebotominae)

Laboratorio de Sistemática y Ecología de Insectos con Interés Médico-Veterinario, Red Ambiente y Sustentabilidad, Instituto de Ecología, A.C. Antigua carretera a Coatepec No. 351, El Haya, Xalapa, Veracruz, CP 91070, México.
Independent, El Dorado Hills, California, USA; Research Associate, California State Collection of Arthropods, Sacramento, California.
Diptera Homonymy new combination nomenclatural changes name replacement

Abstract

A new name for the Oriental genus Nyssomyia Hull, 1962 (Diptera: Asilidae) is proposed. Homonymy exists between this Oriental robber fly genus and the more senior Neotropical phlebotomine sand fly genus Nyssomyia Barretto, 1962 (sensu Galati 2003) (Diptera: Psychodidae), and the following replacement name is proposed: Ekkentronomyia nom. nov. for Nyssomyia Hull (nec Barretto 1962). Accordingly, a new combination is herein proposed for the only species currently included in this genus: Ekkentronomyia ochracea (Hull, 1962) comb. nov.