''Komaroviopsis'' is a

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispec ...

genus of

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s belonging to the family

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. It contains only one species, ''Komaroviopsis anisoptera'', native to

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in Central Asia.

Taxonomy

The genus was first described in 1939, along with the sole species. The name ''Komarovia'' was in honour of

Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov (russian: Влади́мир Лео́нтьевич Комаро́в; – 5 December 1945) was a Russian and Soviet botanist. Biography Komarov was born in 1869. He was a graduate of St. Petersburg ...

(1869–1945), a Russian botanist. However, the genus name ''Komaroffia'', a variant spelling of Komarov's name when made into Latin, had already been published in 1887, so "''Komarovia''" is an illegitimate name. The

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''Komaroviopsis'' was published in 2021. The Latin

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

of ''anisoptera'' is made up of two words; ''aniso'' meaning unequal or uneven, and ''ptera'' from Greek ''pterux'' word meaning wing.

References

{{Taxonbar, from1=Q115747005, from2=Q9017880, from3=Q115747092, from4=Q17133023 Apioideae Monotypic Apioideae genera