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Issue: Vol. 2932 No. 1: 28 Jun. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-06-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2932.1.4
Page range: 41–46
Abstract views: 42
PDF downloaded: 1

A new stalk-eyed species of Batrachophthalmum Hendel (Diptera, Richardiidae) from Colombia

Department of Zoology, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Postal Box 19020, 81531–980, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Grupo de Entomología, Universidad de Antioquia, Apartado aéreo 1226, Medellín, Colombia
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Manaus, Amazônia, Brazil Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, CNPq, Brazil, fellow
Diptera Batrachophthalmum Colombian highlands new stalk-eyed species Richardiidae South America

Abstract

Batrachophthalmum quimbaya Carvalho, Wolff & Wendt, new species, from Santuario de Flora y Fauna Otún-Quimbaya, Colombia, is described. This stalk-eyed species of Richardiidae was collected at Bosque Sub-Andino in the central mountain range of Colombia. An identification key for two species of the genus, and for stalk-eyed species of the related genera Richardia Robineau-Desvoidy and Megalothoraca Hendel, are also added.

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