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Ataenogera argentifrons. 10. male frons. 11. female frons. 12. epandrium, cerci, hypoproct, ventral view. 13. hypandrium, gonocoxite, gonostylus ventral view. 14. aedeagus, gonocoxite, gonostylus dorsal view. 15. gonostylus dorsal view. 16. aedeagus dorsal view. 17. aedeagus ventral view. 18. aedeagus, lateral view. 19. female reproductive organs. Scale = 0.1 mm.
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The New World genus Ataenogera Kröber is revised with all species illustrated and distribution maps provided along with a key to species. Ataenogera includes six species, two of which (Ataenogera argentifrons sp. nov. and A. irwini sp. nov.) are new to science. Ataenogera brevicornis (Bromley) is resurrected from synonymy with A. abdominalis Kröber...
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... The stiletto fly subfamily Phycinae comprises 128 species in 18 genera (four extinct) distributed in all major biogeographic regions except Australasia (Hauser 2005; Hauser and Webb 2007 ). Diagnostic characters used to differentiate members of this subfamily include absence of lanceolate setae on the femora, setulae on wing vein R 1 (although absent in Schlingeria Irwin, 1977 ), wing costal vein terminating before vein CuA 2 (never circumambient), palpi with an apical pit, female terminalia with only a single set of ...
... The nominal genus, Phycus Walker, 1850, is not only the most species-rich genus of Phycinae (25 spp.), it is also the most widely distributed with species recorded throughout the Oriental, Palaearctic, Afrotropical, Nearctic and Neotropical regions (Lyneborg 2003). Five extant genera occur in the New World, Ataenogera Kröber, 1914 (6 spp.), Parapherocera Irwin, 1977 (3 spp.), Pherocera Cole, 1923 (11 spp.), Schlingeria Irwin, 1977 (1 sp.) and Phycus Walker, 1850 (Irwin 1977Irwin , 1983 Hauser 2005; Hauser and Webb 2007 ). Phycinae are more diverse and species-rich in the Palaearctic and Afrotropical regions with many genera found in both regions, including Actorthia Kröber, 1912 (13 spp.), Phycus Walker, 1850, Acathrito Lyneborg, 1983 (9 spp.) and Ruppellia Wiedemann, 1830 (5 spp.) (Lyneborg , 1989Lyneborg , 2003; Badrawy and Mohammad 2011). ...
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Henicomyia hubbardii Coquillett, 1898.
The purpose of this application, under Articles 29 and 55.3 of the Code, is
to remove homonymy between the family-group names PHYCINAE Swainson, 1838
(Osteichthyes, Gadiformes, PHYCIDAE) and PHYCINAE Lyneborg, 1976 (Insecta, Diptera,
THEREVIDAE). It is proposed that the stem of the genus-group name Phycus
Walker, 1850, on which the insect family-group name is based, be emended to change
the family-group name to PHYCUSINAE, leaving the fish family-group name, based on
Phycis Walbaum, 1792, unaltered. An issue regarding the type-species of Phycis
Walbaum, 1792, came to light in this process, namely that the previously assumed
type species, Tinca marina (attributed to Walbaum (1792) and considered a junior
synonym of Blennius phycis Linnaeus, 1766), is a nomen nudum. So, an additional
purpose of this application, under Articles 78.1 and 81.1 of the Code, is to maintain
the prevailing usage of Blennius phycis Linnaeus, 1766 as the de facto type species of
Phycis Walbaum, 1792 by setting aside all previous type species designations and
designating Blennius phycis Linnaeus, 1766 as the type species.
