Search

8. Mawuphalla antennomyia Lehrer, 2013: 9. Figs 6, 7. TYPE LOCALITY: Benin, Atlantique, Ouidah [“Bénin... Quidah [sic!], XII.2003, leg. G. Goergen ”]. TYPE SPECIMEN: Holotype ♁, by original designation, deposited in SMNHTAU. CURRENT STATUS: Ceracia africana (Mesnil, 1959) [teste this work]. FAMILY: Tachinidae. REMARKS: Holotype in poor condition, being somewhat greasy and with wings and legs partly damaged and many setae lost. It is direct-pinned, with terminalia dissected and kept in a vial with glycerin on same pin. This is the first record of Ceracia from Benin (O’Hara & Cerretti 2016)., Published as part of Cerretti, P., Morgulis, E., Michelsen, V. & Pape, T., 2023, Nominal genera and species of Diptera misidentified as to family by A. Z. Lehrer (Diptera: Muscidae, Tachinidae), pp. 189-194 in Zootaxa 5278 (1) on page 192, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5278.1.11, http://zenodo.org/record/7894788, {"references":["Mesnil, L. P. (1959) Tachinidae d'Afrique orientale (Dipt.) (Recoltes par l'expedition zoologique allemande en Afrique orientale de 1951 / 52. Groupe Lindner - Stuttgart, Nr. 33). Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde, 23, 1 - 31. Available from: https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / part / 97027 (accessed 29 January 2023)","O'Hara, J. E. & Cerretti, P. (2016) Annotated catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta, Diptera) of the Afrotropical Region, with the description of seven new genera. ZooKeys, 575, 1 - 344. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 575.6072"]}