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Issue: Vol. 3394 No. 1: 20 Jul. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-07-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3394.1.7
Page range: 64–68
Abstract views: 56
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A new species and new records of Downeshelea Wirth & Grogan in Neotropical Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

Lab. Entomología, InDRE, Carpio 470, Col. Santo Tomas, México D.F. 11340, Mexico
Laboratório de Diptera, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz-Fiocruz, Av. Brasil 4365, 21040-900 Rio de Janeiro, RJ
División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, CCT CONICET- La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900 La Plata, Argentina
Diptera Ceratopogonidae

Abstract

In the revision of the Ceratopogonini of the World, Wirth & Grogan (1988) placed the species of the Monohelea multilineata group in the new genus Downeshelea, which includes 33 species (Borkent, 2011), most of them known from the New World. Borkent and Spinelli (2000, 2007) listed 18 species from the Neotropical Region and Felippe-Bauer and Silva (2008) subsequently described D. oliveirai Felippe-Bauer from northern Brazil. From Mexico, only D. multilineata (Lutz) and D. panamensis (Lane & Wirth) have been reported.

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