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. 2016 Jul 8;4137(1):121-8.
doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4137.1.9.

Timeless standards for species delimitation

Dalton S Amorim  1 , Charles Morphy D Santos  1 , Frank-Thorsten Krell  1 , Alain Dubois  1 , Silvio S Nihei  1 , Otto M P Oliveira  1 , Adrian Pont  1 , Hojun Song  1 , Vanessa K Verdade  1 , Diego A Fachin  1 , Bruna Klassa  1 , Carlos José E Lamas  1 , Sarah S Oliveira  1 , Claudio J B De Carvalho  1 , Cátia A Mello-Patiu  1 , Eduardo Hajdu  1 , Márcia S Couri  1 , Vera C Silva  1 , Renato S Capellari  1 , Rafaela L Falaschi  1 , Rodrigo M Feitosa  1 , Lorenzo Prendini  1 , José P Jr Pombal  1 , Fernando Fernández  1 , Rosana M Rocha  1 , John E Lattke  1 , Ulisses Caramaschi  1 , Marcelo Duarte  1 , Antonio Carlos Marques  1 , Roberto E Reis  1 , Olavi Kurina  1 , Daniela M Takiya  1 , Marcos Tavares  1 , Daniel Silva Fernandes  1 , Francisco Luís Franco  1 , Fabiana Cuezzo  1 , Dennis Paulson  1 , Benoit Guénard  1 , Birgit C Schlick-Steiner  1 , Wolfgang Arthofer  1 , Florian M Steiner  1 , Brian L Fisher  1 , Robert A Johnson  1 , Thibaut Dominique Delsinne  1 , David A Donoso  1 , Pablo Ricardo Mulieri  1 , Luciano Damián Patitucci  1 , James M Carpenter  1 , Lee Herman  1 , David Grimaldi  1
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Timeless standards for species delimitation

Dalton S Amorim et al. Zootaxa. .

Abstract

Recently a new species of bombyliid fly, Marleyimyia xylocopae, was described by Marshall & Evenhuis (2015) based on two photographs taken during fieldwork in the Republic of South Africa. This species has no preserved holotype. The paper generated some buzz, especially among dipterists, because in most cases photographs taken in the field provide insufficient information for properly diagnosing and documenting species of Diptera.

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