Conops petiolata

Authors :: Stuke, Jens-Hermann
Clements, David K.
Publication Year :: 2005
Publisher :: Zenodo, 2005.
Abstract: "Heterellia petiolata R. D." A male of Myopa palliceps (Bigot, 1887). The specimen is well preserved. The specimen bears the following labels: (1) "M. / petiolata / �� / coll. Big." [round, white label]; (2) "Heterellia / petiolata R. D." [light��blue label]. An unpublished manuscript name. It is possible that Robineau��Desvoidy did not intend to publish this as new species but was instead assigning the specimen to his personal concept of Conops petiolata Linnaeus, 1767. However, this is perhaps unlikely as it would have required a gross error of identification by Robineau��Desvoid, since the latter is accepted to be a species of Physocephala (Thompson 1997).<br />Published as part of Stuke, Jens-Hermann & Clements, David K., 2005, The interpretation of some Conopidae (Diptera) described by Robineau��Desvoidy, pp. 1-12 in Zootaxa 886 on page 4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.170914<br />{"references":["Thompson, F. C. (1997) Linnaean species of Conops (Diptera: Conopidea, Muscidae, Sciomyzidae, Syrphidae & Tachinidae), with designation of Lectotypes. Entomological News, 108, 265 - 272."]}