Timeless Standards for Species Delimitation: A Critique of the Use of Images as Types

KRELL, FRANK ; OTTO M.P. OLIVEIRA; VANESSA K. VERDADE; CARLOS JOSÉ E. LAMAS; MELLO-PATIU, CATIA ANTUNES DE; VERA C. SILVA; RODRIGO FEITOSA; FERNANDO FERNÁNDEZ; ULISSES CARAMASCHI; ROBERTO E. REIS; MARCOS TAVARES; FABIANA CUEZZO; BIRGIT C. SCHLICK-STEINER; BRIAN L. FISHER; DAVID A. DONOSO; JAMES M. CARPENTER; SANTOS, CHARLES MORPHY D.; NIHEI, SILVIO S. ; HOJUN SONG; BRUNA KLASSA; CLAUDIO J. B. DE CARVALHO; MÁRCIA S. COURI; RAFAELA L. FALASCHI; JOSÉ P. POMBAL JR.; JOHN E. LATTKE; ANTÔNIO CARLOS MARQUES; DANIELA M. TAKIYA; FRANCISCO LUÍS FRANCO; BENOIT GUÉNARD; FLORIAN M. STEINER; AMORIM, DALTON S.; THIBAUT DOMINIQUE DELSINNE; DUBOIS, ALAIN ; PATITUCCI, LUCIANO DAMIÁN; ADRIAN PONT; DAVID GRIMALDI; DIEGO A. FACHIN; SARAH S. OLIVEIRA; EDUARDO HAJDU; RENATO S. CAPELLARI; LORENZO PRENDINI; ROSANA M. ROCHA; MARCELO DUARTE; OLAVI KURINA; DANIEL SILVA FERNANDES; DENNIS PAULSON; WOLFGANG ARTHOFER; ROBERT A. JOHNSON; MULIERI, PABLO RICARDO; LEE HERMAN

ZOOTAXA

MAGNOLIA PRESS

Lugar: Auckland; Año: 2016 vol. 4137 p. 121 - 128

1175-5326

Recently a new species of bombyliid fly, Marleyimyia xylocopae, was described by Marshall & Evenhuis (2015) based on two photographs taken during fieldwork in the Republic of South Africa. This species has no preserved holotype. The paper generated some buzz, especially among dipterists, because in most cases photographs taken in the field provide insufficient information for properly diagnosing and documenting species of Diptera.