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 Urophora notata (Belanovskij 1950)
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| Nosferatumyia |
Posted on 27-02-2016 13:05
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The most peculiar of Palaearctic Urophora species, which possesses a "chloropid like" mesonotum in combination with black palpi. Occurs in Tajikistan and possibly infests Echinops flower heads, as all other species of the Urophora dzieduszyckii group. It was the first extant NEW SPECIES I discovered and described as Urophora solaris Korneyev 1984. Sixteen years later, while copying for Neal Evenhuis request a very rare paper by Belanovsky (1950), I found out an entirely unknown description of Euribia notata Belanovskij 1950. The journal apparently existed in a single copy and the species has never been included in catalogues. The temptations to burn the last copy or to call the species nomen oblituum (since it stayed unknown for exactly 50 years) were not in my style. So I had to synonymize my first fly, and it was done in the key to Palaearctic Urophora. The first series since the holotypes of Euribia notata and Urophora solaris has been collected in Tajikistan by Yuriy Skrylnik, in Peter I Range 07.2015. Nosferatumyia attached the following image:  [141.09Kb] Val |
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| John Carr |
Posted on 27-02-2016 13:22
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Have you seen Phytoliriomyza melampyga? That species and the paler Liriomyza have similar pattern. In America one of the rarest journal issues was printed in Chicago in 1871. Only a few copies were distributed before the rest burned in the Great Chicago Fire. (https://en.wikipe...icago_Fire) |
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| Nosferatumyia |
Posted on 27-02-2016 16:08
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The case of Phytomyzinae is similar, indeed, and fits the Urophora case well. Concerning the fires, we have even a worse case. The last, Tenebrionid part of the Jacobson's Keys to the Beetles of Russian Empire and Bordering countries, has died in fire in 1917 entirely, along with the manuscripts and originals of colour plates. No copies survived at all. Val |
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