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Toxopoda nitida Macquart, 1851

Male

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Toxopoda nitida. Male pinned specimen.

Deposited at:  Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford (UK)

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Diagnosis

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Taxonomy Information

Classification

Sepsidae: Sepsinae: "Lower sepsids": Toxopoda

Synonyms

TOXOPODA NITIDA Macquart 1851. Egypt: Exact locality not stated. Holotype ♀, in Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford, UK.

discedens Becker 1903 (as Amydrosoma). Egypt: Kairo. Lectotype ♂, by designation of Ozerov, 1997a: 479, in Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt- Universität, Berlin, Germany.

discendens. Incorrect subsequent spelling of discedens Becker [Bezzi, 1908: 170].

Source:

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

Distribution

Afrotropical: Angola, Botswana, Madagascar, Malawi, Namibia, Republic of South Africa, Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Zambia.

Palaearctic (North Africa): Egypt.

Source:

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

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