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Issue: Vol. 4422 No. 3: 24 May 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-05-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4422.3.4
Page range: 385–394
Abstract views: 60
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Odd, outsized, and obscure: Sarcophaga (Hadroxena) karakoncolos sp. n. (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from Turkey

Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom.
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 10th St. & Constitution Ave. NW 20560, Washington, DC, United States.
Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, DK – 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
Diptera Anatolia flesh flies new species new subgenus Palaearctic

Abstract

A new species of flesh fly, Sarcophaga karakoncolos sp. n., is described based on a single adult male from Turkey (Isparta Province, Anatolia), characterised by its very large size (almost 22mm in body length) and by a unique combination of morphological features. These, together with available molecular data, do not support inclusion of the new species in any of the currently recognised subgenera of Sarcophaga, and it is placed in a new subgenus, Hadroxena subg. n.

 

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