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Jaaziel Garcia-Hernandez and Simone Montano

A new robber fly described from Sint Eustatius

Anonymous (not verified) - 19 April 2019
Male Efferia exaggerata recently described from Sint Eustatius.
/ Foto:
John Smit
Recently a paper was published with a new robber fly species from Sint Eustatius: Efferia exaggerata. The species-name refers to the extremely large terminalia, which, in flight, the male appears to drag behind him. There was one other species of Efferia known from the Lesser Antilles: E. nigrimystacea, which was encountered on Sint Eustatius as well. Furthermore several specimens of the species Ommatius prolongatus were found on the island, which was only known from a single female described from Montserat. In the present paper the male is described as well. With these three species newly recorded from Sint Eustatius, a small contribution to the knowledge of the biodiversity of the Dutch
Caribbean.
 

 

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Smit, J.T., 2019. Robber flies from Sint Eustatius, Lesser Antilles, with the descriptions of Efferia
exaggerata sp.n. and the male of Ommatius prolongatus Scarbrough (Diptera: Asilidae). Zootaxa
4586(1): 141-150.