World revision of Dolichocolon Brauer & Bergenstamm (Diptera: Tachinidae: Exoristinae: Goniini) |
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| Authors: | PIERFILIPPO CERRETTI HIROSHI SHIMA |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie ‘Charles Darwin’, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale A. Moro 5, I‐00185, Roma, Italy;2. Centro Nazionale Biodiversità Forestale – Corpo Forestale dello Stato, Via C. Ederle 16/a, I‐37100, Verona, Italy;3. Kyushu University Museum, Kyushu University, Hakozaki, Fukuoka, Japan |
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| Abstract: | The Palaeotropical goniine genus Dolichocolon Brauer & Bergenstamm is revised and analysed cladistically. Seventeen new species are described from Australia (Queensland, Northern Territory), Cameroon, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Japan, Papua New Guinea, Senegal, Thailand, Uganda, Yemen, and Zimbabwe. The following new synonymy is proposed after direct comparison of primary types: Dolichocolon klapperichi Mesnil, 1967 = Dolichocolon orientale Townsend, 1927 syn. nov. A key to the 21 known species is presented. A cladistic analysis based on 36 morphological characters provides support for the monophyly of Dolichocolon. A sister‐group relationship is indicated between Dolichocolon and Kuwanimyia Townsend, whereas Dolichocolon chiangmaiensis sp. nov. from Thailand takes a position as sister group to all other Dolichocolon species. © 2011 The Linnean Society of London, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2011, 162 , 544–584. |
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| Keywords: | biodiversity Kuwanimyia male terminalia new species Palesisa phylogeny systematics |
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