Desmometopa leptometopoides, Sabrosky, 1983

Sinclair, Bradley J., 2023, An annotated checklist of the Diptera of the Galápagos Archipelago (Ecuador), Zootaxa 5283 (1), pp. 1-102 : 63

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5283.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FFACFB44-873F-4C12-90CF-D8442910659A

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7926617

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F3581C07-1920-FFB8-D29F-FE41FCDA4B8C

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Desmometopa leptometopoides
status

 

leptometopoides Sabrosky View in CoL (Lehnen et al. unpubl.)

Desmometopa leptometopoides Sabrosky, 1983: 40 View in CoL .

Distribution. Introduced. Afrotropics; Galápagos: Santa Cruz.

Remarks. This is an African species and is the only species of this genus with broadly flattened hind tibiae. Adults of this species were recently reared from fruit in the Scalesia zone (Los Gemelos) and in the arid urban lowlands (Puerto Ayora) on Santa Cruz (Lehnen et al. unpubl.).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Milichiidae

Genus

Desmometopa

Loc

Desmometopa leptometopoides

Sinclair, Bradley J. 2023
2023
Loc

Desmometopa leptometopoides

Sabrosky 1983: 40
1983
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