Microcolpia Bourguignat, 1884
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Microcolpia Bourguignat, 1884 |
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Microcolpia Bourguignat, 1884 View in CoL
( Bourguignat, 1884: 49). Originally classified as Melaniidae (Bourguignat gave only the vernacular ‘Mélaniens’).
Type species: Melanopsis acicularis Férussac, 1823 , by subsequent designation by Cossmann (1909: 159).
Glöer (2002) lists Microcolpia as a subgenus of Esperiana Bourguignat, 1877 . However, our molecular data clearly show such the genus as polyphyletic, thus Microcolpia and Esperiana should be treated as distinct genera.
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