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Issue: Vol. 2907 No. 1: 7 Jun. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-06-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2907.1.2
Page range: 22–28
Abstract views: 63
PDF downloaded: 2

A new species of Fillus Navás, 1919 (Neuroptera: Ascalaphidae) from the Brazilian Amazon Basin

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia —INPA, Coordenação de Pesquisas em Entomologia, Caixa Postal 478, 69011–970, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia —INPA, Coordenação de Pesquisas em Entomologia, Caixa Postal 478, 69011–970, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
Neuroptera Ascalaphinae Brazil lacewings owlflies Suhpalacsini

Abstract

Fillus Navás, 1919 is a genus with two species: F. brethesi Navás, 1919 from Argentina and F. paradoxus (Weele, 1908) from Paraguay. Here we describe F. amazonicus n. sp., from Itapiranga, Amazonas, the first genus record for Brazil, extending its geographical distribution to the Amazon Basin.

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