Neotachina

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Neotachina
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tachinidae
Subfamily: Tachininae
Tribe: Proscissionini
Genus: Neotachina
Malloch, 1938 [1]

Neotachina is a genus of tachinid flies in the family Tachinidae. [2] The four known species in this genus were collected in New Zealand in 1938 and described by Scottish entomologist John Russell Malloch. [3]

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Diagnosis

This genus keys out together with Chaetopletha , Phaoniella , Platytachina , Plethochaetigera , and Tachineo . It is considerably difficult to find satisfactory external characters to distinguish these genera in a dichotomous key. This difficulty is expressed by Malloch 1938 several times over as well as by Dugdale 1969. A thorough revision at the genus level is needed that includes molecular analysis, rearing and collecting of new material.

Species

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Malloch, John Russell (1938). "The calyptrate Diptera of New Zealand, parts VIII and IX". Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 68. The Royal Society of New Zealand: 161–258. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
  2. ↑ O’Hara, James E.; Henderson, Shannon J.; Wood, D. Monty (5 March 2020). "Preliminary Checklist of the Tachinidae (Diptera) of the World" (PDF). Tachinidae Resources. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
  3. ↑ Evenhuis, Neal L. (1989). Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian regions, Volume 86. Hawaii: Bishop Museum Press. p. 757.


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