Publication Date
7-10-1989
Series Number
205
Abstract
The synonymy of the genera Pariphinotus and Heterophlias has been debated many times in the literature. Historically a distinction has been maintained between these two phliantid genera because of morphological differences reported in the literature by the original descriptors and subsequent workers. Our examination of specimens of both genera demonstrates Pariphinotus and Heterophlias to be synonymous. Heterophlias has been regarded as the valid genus by most authors; Pariphinotus, however, is shown to be the senior synonym of Heterophlias.
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