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Issue: Vol. 2689 No. 1: 26 Nov. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-11-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2689.1.1
Page range: 1–14
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A new species of Parachironomus Lenz, 1921 (Diptera: Chironomidae: Chironominae), and description of immature stages of two other species from the Neotropical Region

Laboratório de Entomologia Aquática, Departamento de Hidrobiologia, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, C.P. 676, 13565-905, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
Laboratório de Entomologia Aquática, Departamento de Hidrobiologia, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, C.P. 676, 13565-905, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
Faculdade de Ciências Biológicas e Ambientais, Universidade da Grande Dourados, C.P. 322, 79825-070, Dourados, MS, Brazil
Diptera Chironomidae Parachironomus new species Neotropical region

Abstract

Parachironomus lupus is described and figured as adult male, pupa and larva, and the immatures of P. cayapo Spies et al. and P. tirio Spies et al. are described for the first time based on specimens collected from different water systems in southeast Brazil. Generic diagnoses for the adult male, pupa and larva are emended, and keys to pupae and larvae of four Parachironomus known from Brazil are presented.

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