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Issue: Vol. 3501 No. 1: 1 Oct. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-10-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3501.1.5
Page range: 83–87
Abstract views: 49
PDF downloaded: 18

A new species of Spurostigma Eertmoed (Psocodea:’Psocoptera’: Spurostigmatidae) from Brazil

Laboratório de Sistemática de Insetos, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Km 3, BR-116, Bahía, BRAZIL
Departamento de Zoología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 70-153, 04510 México, D. F., MÉXICO
Psocodea Epipsocetae taxonomy neotropics

Abstract

A new species of Spurostigma, the first recorded in Brazil, is here described and illustrated. It differs from all the speciesin the genus, in which the male is known, in wing venation and in phallosome structure. It is the thirteenth known species of Spurostigma and the fourth species known from South America.

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