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Issue: Vol. 5529 No. 3: 29 Oct. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-10-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5529.3.10
Page range: 593-600
Abstract views: 71
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A fly in the ointment: the re-discovered holotype of ‘Trypeta’ cylindrica Walker, 1853 belongs to the genus Coelopacidia Enderlein (Diptera: Tephritidae), not Chyliza Fallén (Psilidae)

Department of Natural Sciences; National Museum of Scotland; Chambers Street; Edinburgh; Scotland; EH1 1JF; UK; Department of Earth Sciences; Natural History Museum; Cromwell Road; South Kensington; London; SW7 5BD; UK
9 Yew Tree Court; Carlisle; Cumbria; CA2 5QA; UK
Department of Life Sciences; Natural History Museum; Cromwell Road; South Kensington; London; SW7 5BD; UK
Department of Entomology; College of Plant Protection; China Agricultural University; Yuanmingyuan West Road; Beijing 100193; China; Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution; Institute of Zoology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing 100101; China
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Abstract

The ‘type’ of the fly species ‘Trypeta’ cylindrica Walker, 1853, from the William Saunders Collection, was misidentified and subsequently placed in the genus Chyliza Fallén (Psilidae). A specimen from the same collection with identical label data but belonging to Coelopacidia Enderlein (Tephritidae) is hereby identified as the correct holotype and the species should therefore be referred to as Coelopacidia cylindrica (Walker, 1853). Chyliza pallidipes Lamb, 1917 stat. rev. is taken out of synonymy and regarded as the valid name for the species previously treated as ‘Chyliza cylindrica’.

 

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