Marleyimyia xylocopae

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Marleyimyia xylocopae
Female holotype, photographed in Ndumo Game Preserve, South Africa on 1 December 2014
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Bombyliidae
Subfamily: Anthracinae
Tribe: Villini
Genus: Marleyimyia
Species:
M. xylocopae
Binomial name
Marleyimyia xylocopae
Marshall & Evenhuis, 2015

Marleyimyia xylocopae is a species of

crepuscular or nocturnal but this species was found to be diurnal.[1]

Controversy about photography-based taxonomy

The species was unusual in being described on the basis of two photographs, without the collection, designation of a holotype specimen and deposition in a suitable repository. This method provoked in 2016 a controversy among taxonomists, with a paper arguing for photography-based taxonomy by Pape [2] (with 34 signatories), quickly followed by papers arguing against it by Krell [3] (with 5 signatories) and Ceríaco et al.[4] (with 496 authors).

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