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Issue: Vol. 4067 No. 2: 21 Jan. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-01-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4067.2.7
Page range: 233–238
Abstract views: 80
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Peckia veropeso sp. nov., a flesh fly (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the Brazilian Amazon associated with riparian habitats

Coordenação de Zoologia, Entomologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Pará, Brazil.
Universidade da Amazônia, Belém, Pará, Brazil
Universidade da Amazônia, Belém, Pará, Brazil
Coordenação de Zoologia, Entomologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Pará, Brazil.
Diptera Calyptratae Oestroidea Brazil Pará várzea

Abstract

A new species of Sarcophagidae, Peckia (Peckia) veropeso sp. nov., is described based on adult male specimens collected on organic residues in an urban open air market located on the riverside in Belém, Pará state, Brazil, and in a nearby inundated forest. This species seems to be restricted to periodically inundated riparian habitats locally known as “várzea”. The distiphallus of this species is similar to that of members of the monophyletic hilifera (Aldrich)-group in the subgenus Peckia Robineau-Desvoidy. It is distinguished from the other species in the subgenus by characteristics of the male terminalia, mainly in the shape of cercus and vesica. A modified key to species of the subgenus Peckia is included.

 

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