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A New Genus and Species of Hypodermatine Bot Flies (Diptera: Oestridae) Publisher



Pape T1 ; Piwczynski M2 ; Wyborska D2 ; Akbarzadeh K3 ; Szpila K2
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  1. 1. Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
  2. 2. Chair of Ecology and Biogeography, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland
  3. 3. Department of Medical Entomology and Vector Control, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Source: Systematic Entomology Published:2017


Abstract

The bot fly Gruninomyia mira Szpila & Pape, gen.n., sp.n. is described from Iran, North Khorasan, based on a single adult male and with no larval or host data. The monotypic genus shows a mixture of features otherwise found in either the rodent/lagomorph-parasitizing oestromyine clade (Oestroderma + Oestromyia) or the artiodactyl-parasitizing hypodermatine clade (Hypoderma + Pallasiomyia + Pavlovskiata + Przhevalskiana + Strobiloestrus) of subfamily Hypodermatinae. A morphology-based phylogenetic analysis is marginally in favour of a position of Gruninomyia Szpila & Pape, gen.n. as sister taxon of (Oestroderma + Oestromyia). The COI barcode sequence is provided for the new species, and a phylogenetic analysis based on this marker for Oestridae retrieved from GenBank is in agreement with the conclusions based on morphological data. This published work has been registered in ZooBank: http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8F0CBE07-4E74-4186-B690-2C97D7ED7DA7. © 2016 The Royal Entomological Society