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.
Amorim, D. S., Santos, C., Krell, F., Dubois, A., Nihei, S. S., Oliveira, O., ... Grimaldi, D.
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Amorim, Dalton S||Santos, Charles Morphy D||Krell, Frank-Thorsten||Dubois, Alain||Nihei, Silvio S||Oliveira, Otto MP||Pont, Adrian||Song, Hojun||Verdade, Vanessa K||Fachin, Diego A||Klassa, Bruna||Lamas, Carlos José E||Oliveira, Sarah S||Carvalho, Claudio JB De||Mello-Patiu, Cátia A||Hajdu, Eduardo||Couri, Márcia S||Silva, Vera C||Capellari, Renato S||Falaschi, Rafaela L||Feitosa, Rodrigo M||Prendini, Lorenzo||Pombal, José P Jr||Fernández, Fernando||Rocha, Rosana M||Lattke, John E||Caramaschi, Ulisses||Duarte, Marcelo||Marques, Antonio Carlos||Reis, Roberto E||Kurina, Olavi||Takiya, Daniela M||Tavares, Marcos||Fernandes, Daniel Silva||Franco, Francisco Luís||Cuezzo, Fabiana||Paulson, Dennis||Guénard, Benoit||Schlick-Steiner, Birgit C||Arthofer, Wolfgang||Steiner, Florian M||Fisher, Brian L||Johnson, Robert A||Delsinne, Thibaut Dominique||Donoso, David A||Mulieri, Pablo Ricardo||Patitucci, Luciano Damián||Carpenter, James M||Herman, Lee||Grimaldi, David