Marleyimyia xylocopae
Marleyimyia xylocopae | |
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Female holotype, photographed in Ndumo Game Preserve, South Africa on 1 December 2014 | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Bombyliidae |
Subfamily: | Anthracinae |
Tribe: | Villini |
Genus: | Marleyimyia |
Species: | M. xylocopae
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Binomial name | |
Marleyimyia xylocopae Marshall & Evenhuis, 2015
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Marleyimyia xylocopae is a species of
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).
See also
- Eulophophyllum kirki Ingrisch & Riede, 2016 — a katydid described only from photographs.