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Poecilobothrus Majesticus
''Poecilobothrus majesticus'' is an extinct species of fly in the family Dolichopodidae that was endemic to Great Britain. The species is known from a single male specimen collected near the Essex coast in Walton-on-the-Naze in 1907, and it was formally described by E. C. M. d'Assis-Fonseca in 1976. It has not been recorded for over 100 years, so it is therefore considered to be extinct. History of research The holotype and only known specimen of ''P. majesticus'', an adult male, was collected from Walton-on-the-Naze in 1907. Many years later, D'Assis-Fonseca rediscovered this specimen deposited in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, in the Verrall-Collin collection of the Hope Department. In 1976, D'Assis-Fonseca published a formal description of a new species based on the specimen, named ''Poecilobothrus majesticus''. He reported that it had a label identifying it as ''Poecilobothrus bigoti'', but stated that it didn't fit Josef Mik's original description of that sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extinct Species
This page features lists of species and organisms that have become extinct. The reasons for extinction range from natural occurrences, such as shifts in the Earth's ecosystem or natural disasters, to human influences on nature by the overuse of natural resources, hunting and destruction of natural habitats. In actual theoretical practice, a species not definitely located in the wild in the last 50 years of current time is textually called "extinct". Plants * List of recently extinct plants Animals By region * List of African animals extinct in the Holocene ** List of Madagascar and Indian Ocean Island animals extinct in the Holocene ** List of Macaronesian animals extinct in the Holocene ** List of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha animals extinct in the Holocene * List of Asian animals extinct in the Holocene * List of European species extinct in the Holocene ** List of extinct animals of the British Isles ** List of Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily animals e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |