Myrmecothea myrmecoides (Loew, 1860)

Kameneva, E. P. & Korneyev, V. A., 2022, Identity Of Species Assigned To The Genus Cephalia (Diptera, Tephritoidea), Zoodiversity 56 (6), pp. 447-462 : 456

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.15407/zoo2022.06.447
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15270038
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scientific name	Myrmecothea myrmecoides (Loew, 1860)
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Cephalia myrmecoides Loew, 1860 View in CoL (fig. 6)

Valid name. Myrmecothea myrmecoides (Loew, 1860) View in CoL (Ulidiidae).

Cephalia myrmecoides Loew, 1860: 24 View in CoL (Washington, D.C.).

Myrmecothea myrmecoides: Hendel, 1910: 310, 1914: 16 View in CoL ; Steyskal, 1961: 404; 1965: 646; Wallace, 2021: 9, 14, 69.

Material. Type. Holotype ♂: “Type / 13244 ”, “ Loew. / coll.” ( MCZ). Non-type. USA: Maryland, Chevy Chase , 30.05.1964 2 ♂ (P. P. Babiy leg.) ( MCZ); Virginia: “ DixieLndg //5.30 Va.”, coll. Hendel ”, 2 ♀ ( NHMW) .

R e m a r k s: Hendel (1910) established a separate genus based on a single autapomorphy which differentiates it from Cephalia : i. e. anal lobe and alula absent; most other characters are similar to Cephalia rufipes . Should Cephalia be found to contain more than one species, Myrmecothea should be considered a derived terminal taxon rather than its sister taxon.