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Issue: Vol. 3038 No. 1: 22 Sep. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-09-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3038.1.4
Page range: 51–58
Abstract views: 56
PDF downloaded: 5

Taxonomic notes, new species and identification key to the New World species of Toxophora Meigen (Diptera, Bombyliidae, Toxophorinae)

Museu Nacional, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940–040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Avenida Nazaré, 481, Ipiranga, 04263-000, São Paulo, SP, Brazil Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) fellowship
Museu Nacional, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940–040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) fellowship
Diptera Nearctic Neotropical taxonomy T. azteca sp. nov. T. paulistana sp. nov.

Abstract

Two new species of Toxophora Meigen are described and illustrated—T. paulistana sp. nov. (Neotropical) and T. azteca sp. nov. (Nearctic and Neotropical). An identification key to the New World species is also presented. Morphological differences between populations of T. aurea Macquart (1848) are recorded, illustrated and added to the key. The new species are easily recognized by: scape with long, yellow scales laterally; presence of yellow scales on mesonotum margins; posterior margin of mesonotum with a pre-scutellar pair of setae; and yellow scales forming thin bands on posterior margins of abdominal tergites in T. paulistana sp. nov., and scape entirely covered with long dark-brown scales and yellow scales forming a broad, longitudinal stripe on center of abdominal tergites III-VII in T. azteca sp. nov.

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