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Meropliosepsis sexsetosa Duda, 1926

Male

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Meropliosepsis sexsetosa. Male alcohol-vouchered specimen.

Deposited at:  Evolutionary Biology Laboratory, National University of Singapore (Singapore)

Yuchen Ang
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Diagnosis

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Diagnostic illustrations for adults

Adapted from:

Ozerov AL (1993). A review of the sepsid flies of Palaeosepsini, trib.n. (Diptera Sepsidae). Russian Entomological Journal 2(5-6): 55-103.

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Morphoglossary

HeadThoraxAbdomen(Male)Abdomen(Female)

Taxonomy Information

Classification

Sepsidae: Sepsinae: "Lower sepsids": "Neotropical clade": Meropliosepsis

Synonyms

MEROPLIOSEPSIS SEXSETOSA Duda 1926. Costa Rica: Costa-Rica, Suiza di Turrialba. Lectotype ♂, by designation of Silva, 1992: 550, in Magyar Természettudomanyi Museum Allattara, Budapest, Hungary.

carnivora Curran 1934 (as Sepsis). Guyana: Kartabo. Holotype ♀, in American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA.

Source:

Ozerov 2005, World Catalogue of the Family Sepsidae (Insecta: Diptera), Zoologicheskie issledovania 8.

Distribution

Neotropical: Bolivia, Brazil (Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Rio de Janeiro), Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Venezuela.

Source:

Ozerov 2005, World Catalogue of the Family Sepsidae (Insecta: Diptera), Zoologicheskie issledovania 8.

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