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Issue: Vol. 1019 No. 1: 19 Jul. 2005
Type: Articles
Published: 2005-07-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1019.1.3
Page range: 43–52
Abstract views: 39
PDF downloaded: 19

Three unusually divergent new genera of phorid flies (Diptera: Phoridae) from Costa Rica

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90007, USA
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90007, USA
Diptera Phoridae new genus Costa Rica Neotropical

Abstract

Three new genera and species, Laciniomyia dilata, Laishania angustithorax, and Tabelliphora teretipenna are described from female specimens collected in Costa Rica. All are classified in the subfamily Metopininae, amongst which they are among the most structurally unusual forms found in the New World.

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