Boreofairchildia

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Boreofairchildia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Superfamily: Psychodoidea
Family: Psychodidae
Subfamily: Bruchomyiinae
Genus: Boreofairchildia
Wagner & Stuckenberg, 2016
Synonyms

Nemopalpus (several species)

Boreofairchildia [1] is a genus of moth flies in the subfamily Bruchomyiinae. Species have been recorded from the Americas, principally Central and South America, with many, including the type, transferred from the genus Nemopalpus .

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Description

The genus name was dedicated to G. B. Fairchild, for his contributions to Neotropical Psychodidae and medical entomology. [1] "According to cladistics analysis, the diagnostic characters of this genus are: aedeagus as long as or slightly shorter than ejaculatory apodeme and gonocoxites; gonocoxites without medial appendages, gonostyli basally broad, with two or more distal projections." [2]

Species

Unless referenced otherwise, Systema Dipterorum includes: [3]

  1. Boreofairchildia alexanderi Santos, Brazil & Pinto, 2021 [2]
  2. Boreofairchildia antillarum (Fairchild, 1952)
  3. Boreofairchildia arroyoi (León, 1950)
  4. Boreofairchildia belti Ježek, Oboňa, Pont, Maes & Mollinedo, 2018 [4]
  5. Boreofairchildia dominicana Wagner, 2017
  6. Boreofairchildia mopani (León, 1950)
  7. Boreofairchildia moralesi (León, 1950)
  8. Boreofairchildia multisetosus (Alexander, 1979)
  9. Boreofairchildia nearctica (Young, 1974) (sugarfoot moth fly)
  10. Boreofairchildia parvus (Santos, Falqueta & Bravo, 2013)
  11. Boreofairchildia patriciae (Alexander, 1987)
  12. Boreofairchildia scheveni (Wagner, 2006)
  13. Boreofairchildia sziladyi (Tonnoir, 1940) – type species [1]
  14. Boreofairchildia torrealbai (Ortiz & Scorza, 1963)
  15. Boreofairchildia youngi (Wagner, 2000)
  16. Boreofairchildia yucatanensis (Vargas & Díaz Nájera, 1958)

References

  1. 1 2 3 Wagner R, Stuckenberg BR (2016) Cladistic analysis of Subfamily Bruchomyiinae (Diptera: Psychodidae). Zootaxa 4092(2): 151–174. [2016.03.16]
  2. 1 2 dos Santos CB, Brazil RP, de Souza Pinto I (2021) New species of Boreofairchildia Wagner & Stuckenberg and Laurenceomyia Wagner & Stuckenberg (Diptera: Psychodidae: Bruchomyiinae) from Brazil. Zootaxa 4974 (2): 391–395.
  3. ↑ "Nomenclator Query". diptera.org.
  4. ↑ "Boreofairchildia belti Ježek, Oboňa & Le Pont, 2018". www.gbif.org.
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