Megapalpus Macquart, 1834
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Felipe |
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Megapalpus Macquart View in CoL View at ENA
Megapalpus Macquart, 1834: 394 View in CoL . Type species: Phthiria capensis Wiedemann, 1828 View in CoL , by monotypy.
Comments: Hesse (1938) gave characters for the separation of the two described, partially sympatric species, M. capensis (Eastern and Western Cape) and M. nitidus Macquart (Western Cape); however, specimens vary in the expression of these characters, and many show a combination of characters of the two putative species. Consequently, M. nitidus has been placed in synonymy with M. capensis and the genus is monotypic.
Megapalpus capensis View in CoL has been studied as a pollinator of Pelargonium tricolor (Geraniaceae) View in CoL ( McDonald & van der Walt 1992) and Gorteria diffusa (Asteraceae) View in CoL ( Johnson & Midgley 1996).
Distribution: Monotypic.Afrotropical: Eastern and Western Cape: Megapalpus capensis (Wiedemann) . Map (Greathead 2000 a).
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Megapalpus Macquart
| Greathead, D. J. & Evenhuis, N. L. 2001 |
Megapalpus
| MACQUART, P. J. M. 1834: 394 |