Echinopodium Freeman
Creators: name: Amorim, Dalton De Souza
name: Oliveira, Sarah Siqueira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Mycetophilidae
Echinopodium

description: Echinopodium Freeman   
 Echinopodium Freeman 1951: 45. Type-species, E. nigricoxa Freeman (orig. des.).   
 E. curvispina Freeman 1951: 47, figs. 94–95 (♂ terminalia). Type-locality: Argentina, Río Negro, Puerto Blest. Holotype ♂, NHM.   
(Figure 140)  
 Notes. The type series included the male holotype and a female paratype, both of which are at the NHM. The holotype labes are: “ Echinopodium / curvispina [hw] / Freeman. / HOLOTYPE ” [printed on red label]” // [male terminalia on a microslide attached to a pinned plastic stripe]” // “HOLO- / TYPE” [printed in black on a rounded label with red border]” // “Nahuel Huapi, / Puerto Blest. / 2–3.xii.1926.” // “ Argentina: / Terr. Río Negro. / F. & M. Edwards / B.M. 1927–63.” // “BMNH(E) # / 257713”. The holotype is in excellent condition. The paratype collection number is BMNH(E) # 257714.   
 E. digitalis Freeman 1951: 47, figs. 87 (midcoxal process), 91–93 (♂ terminalia). Type-locality: Chile, Llanquihue, Casa Pangue. Ref.— Duret 1974: 98, figs. 1–3 (midcoxal process, ♂ terminalia). Holotype ♂, NHM.   
(Figure 141)  
 Notes. The type series included the male holotype, a male and two female paratypes, all of which are at the NHM. The holotype labels are as follows: “ Echinopodium / digitalis [hw] / Freeman. / HOLOTYPE ” [printed on red label]” // [male terminalia on a microslide attached to a pinned plastic stripe]” // “HOLO- / TYPE” [printed in black on a rounded label with red border]” // “Casa Pangue. / 4–10.xii.1926.” // “S. Chile: / Llanquihue Prov. / F. & M. Edwards / B.M. 1927–63.” // “BMNH(E) # / 257709”. The holotype is in good condition. The paratypes are numbered BMNH(E) # 257710-2.   
 E. flagellatum Freeman 1951: 48, fig. 86 (midcoxal process), 96–98 (♂ terminalia). Type-locality: Argentina, Rio Negro, Puerto Blest. Ref.— Duret 1974: 98, figs. 4–9 (palpus, midcoxal process, tibial spur, ♂ terminalia). Holotype ♂, NHM.   
(Figure 142)  
 Notes. The type series included the male holotype, twelve male and seven female paratypes, of which the holotype, nine male and four female paratypes, plus a paratype with a broken abdomen, are at the NHM. The holotype labels are: “ Echinopodium / flagellatum [hw] / Freeman. / HOLOTYPE ” [printed on red label]” // [male terminalia on a microslide attached to a pinned plastic stripe]” // “HOLO- / TYPE” [printed in black on a rounded label with red border]” // “Nahuel Huapi, / Puerto Blest. / 2–3.xii.1926.” // “ Argentina: / Terr. Río Negro. / F. & M. Edwards / B.M. 1927–63.” // “BMNH(E) # / 257715”. The holotype is in good condition. The paratype numbers are BMNH(E) # 257716-29, many of the males with the terminalia dissected.   
 E. nigricoxa Freeman 1951: 42, fig. 82 (mouthparts), 83 (midcoxal process), 88–90 (♂ terminalia). Type-locality: Argentina, Río Negro, Bariloche. Holotype ♂, NHM.   
(Figure 143)  
 Notes. The type series included the male holotype, twenty-eight male and eleven female paratypes, of which the holotype, twenty-one males and eight females are at the NHM. The labels with the holotype are: “ Echinopodium / nigricoxa [hw] / Freeman. / HOLOTYPE ” [printed on red label]” // [male terminalia on a microslide attached to a pinned plastic stripe]” // “HOLO- / TYPE” [printed in black on a rounded label with red border]” // “Bariloche. / 1.xii.1926.” // “ Argentina: / Terr. Río Negro. / F. & M. Edwards / B.M. 1927–63.” // “BMNH(E) # / 257679”. The holotype is in excellent condition. The paratype collection numbers are BMNH(E) # 257680-708.
description: Published as part of Amorim, Dalton De Souza & Oliveira, Sarah Siqueira, 2013, Types of Neotropical Mycetophilidae (Diptera) at the Natural History Museum collection, London, pp. 1-119 in Zootaxa 3726 (1) on pages 51-52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3726.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5267220