1. On the genera Allomachilis Silvestri, 1906, and Kuschelochilis Wygodzinsky, 1951 (Insecta: Microcoryphia)
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Kuschelochilis Wygodzinsky, Rafael Molero-Baltanás, Carmen Bach de Roca, Luis F. Mendes, Carmen Bach, and M. Gaju-Ricart
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Entomology ,Geography ,biology ,Genus ,Zoology ,Animal Science and Zoology ,Taxonomy (biology) ,Allomachilis ,biology.organism_classification ,Agronomy and Crop Science ,Archaeology ,Meinertellidae - Abstract
The objective of this study was to revise the nominal, and only described, species of the genera Allomachilis Silvestri, 1906, from Australia, and Kuschelochilis Wygodzinsky, 1951, from Chile (Microcoryphia: Meinertellidae). The studied specimens came from the collections deposited in the: American Museum of Natural History (USA); Instituto di Entomologia Agraria dell'Università di Portici (Italy); South Australian Museum (Australia); Carmen Bach collection of the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (Spain); and the entomology collection of the Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical (Portugal). The revision of the nominal species of the genera Allomachilis and Kuschelochilis allows to consider the Neotropical genus a junior synonym of the Australian one.
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- 2009
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