Teratoptera Malloch, 1933

Rodrigues, J. P. V., Pereira-Colavite, A. & Mello, R. L., 2016, Catalogue of the Teratomyzidae (Diptera, Opomyzoidea) of the World, Zootaxa 4205 (3), pp. 275-285 : 283

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4205.3.7
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C7BE0990-ABE7-4633-8BAA-D78DDF50D451
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6057402
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scientific name	Teratoptera Malloch, 1933
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Teratoptera Malloch, 1933 View in CoL

Teratoptera Malloch, 1933b: 387 View in CoL [ Teratomyza (Teratoptera) View in CoL ]. Type-species: Teratomyza (Teratoptera) chilensis Malloch, 1933 (orig. des.). Gender feminine. Ref. Malloch 1933b: 387 (key, desc.); Hennig 1936: 91 (syst., as subgenus, in Anthomyzidae View in CoL ); Stuardo Ortiz 1946: 140 (cat.); Frey 1958: 31 (key, n. stat.); Hennig 1965: 164 – 165 (syst. notes); Prado 1975: 1 (cat.); Vockeroth 1989: 562 (cat.); McAlpine & Keyzer 1994: 310 (key, taxon. notes), 315 (reds.).

chilensis ( Malloch, 1933b: 388) [ Teratomyza (Teratoptera) View in CoL ]. Type locality: Chile, Ancud. Distr. Chile (Los Lagos, Los Ríos). Holotype *female ( NHM). Ref.

Teratomyza (Teratoptera) chilensis ; Malloch 1933b: 387 (taxon. notes, key), 388 (desc.), plate VII (figs. 12, 14); Stuardo Ortiz 1946: 140 (cat.); Prado 1975: 1 (cat.).

Teratoptera chilensis View in CoL ; McAlpine & Keyzer 1994: 315 (taxon. notes), 316 (n. comb., figs, taxon. notes).

*Comments: Malloch (1933b), in the original description of the species, indicated the holotype as male. McAlpine & Keyzer (1994) informed that, in fact, the type is a female.