www.mapress.com/zootaxa / Article On the genus Urytalpa Edwards (Diptera: Keroplatidae) in the Nordic and Nearctic regions, with fixation of a new type species and a key to world males

The five Nordic species of the genus Urytalpa Edwards (Diptera: Keroplatidae) are revised, of which one species, Urytalpa galdes Hedmark & Kjaerandsen, sp. n., is described as new to science based on males collected in northern Sweden. We find that the original type species assignment for Urytal...

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Main Authors: Jostein Kjærandsen, Svante Martinsson, Kjell Hedmark, Neal L. Evenhuis
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.595.6489
http://www.online-keys.net/sciaroidea/2000_/Kjaerandsen_etal_zt02160p050.pdf
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Summary:The five Nordic species of the genus Urytalpa Edwards (Diptera: Keroplatidae) are revised, of which one species, Urytalpa galdes Hedmark & Kjaerandsen, sp. n., is described as new to science based on males collected in northern Sweden. We find that the original type species assignment for Urytalpa (Platyura ochracea Meigen, 1818) is based on a misidentification, and in order to stabilize the nomenclature we therefore select a new type species, Urytalpa dorsalis (Staeger, 1840), sp. restit. A lectotype is designated for Orfelia ochracea (Meigen, 1818), comb. n. = Orfelia unicolor