Parapiophila McAlpine

• Main Author: El-Hawagry, Magdi S.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Piophilidae; Parapiophila; Iceland; Lapponia; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6006393; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/8D6987A97075FFB4BFDA9A8EFD3CFD22

Genus PARAPIOPHILA McAlpine Parapiophila McAlpine, 1977: 48. Type species: Piophila vulgaris Fallén, 1820, original designation. Parapiophila vulgaris (Fallén, 1820) Piophila vulgaris Fallén, 1820b: 9. Holotype and paratypes. Sweden (?USNM). Piophila hortulana Seguy, 1934: 77. Nomen nudum. Piophila anomala Malloch, 1923: 219. USA (Alaska: Pribilof Is.) (?USNM). Piophila oriens Melander & Spuler, 1917: 63. Lectotype. USA (New York: Ithaca) (USNM). Piophila setosa Melander & Spuler, 1917: 64. Lectotype. USA (Alaska: Douglas) (USNM). Piophila pygmaea Zetterstedt, 1838: 772. Unspecified type. Sweden (Lapponia Umensi: Fredrica) (ZIL). Distribution. NE: Alaska to Quebec, s. to New York & Massachusetts. PA: Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine. Egyptian localities. Unknown. Dates of collection. Unknown. Remark. This species was listed by Steyskal and El-Bialy (1967) as recorded from Egypt, however it is not represented in the Egyptian insect collections. Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2017, Catalogue of Egyptian Tephritoidea (Diptera: Schizophora: Acalyptratae), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4299 (2) on page 158, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/843233