Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ephydroidea 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Antliophora
Ordo: Diptera
Subordo: Brachycera
Infraordo: Muscomorpha
Sectio: Schizophora
Subsectio: Acalyptrata
Superfamilia: Ephydroidea

Familia: Ephydridae
Genus: Polytrichophora
Species: Polytrichophora sturtevantorum

Name

  • Polytrichophora sturtevantorum Mathis & Zatwarnicki, 2012: figs 109–113
Holotype: USNM ENT 00285964, ♂; 10 Jun 2004, W. N. Mathis.
Type locality: United States. Tennessee. Shelby: Meeman Shelby State Park (Mississippi River; 35°20.4'N, 90°2.1'W; 98 m).
Etymology: "The species epithet, sturtevantorum, is a plural genitive patronym to recognize and honor a father and son. The father, Alfred H. Sturtevant (1891-1970), was a world-renowned geneticist who also conducted taxonomic research on shore flies (Sturtevant and Wheeler 1954) and was an indefatigable collector of acalyptrate Diptera. Most of A. H. Sturtevant's shore-fly collection is deposited in the USNM, where his son, William C. Sturtevant (1926-2007), was a colleague and distinguished scholar in the Department of Anthropology (USNM)."

Mentions

  • Polytrichophora orbitalis of authors, not Loew [misidentification]. Deonier 1964: 121 [key, Iowa, as Discocerina orbitalis]; 165:502 [ecological observations, as Discocerina orbitalis].

References

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