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Published: 2012-11-21
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Two New Species of the Genus Atrichopogon Kieffer (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Mexico

Lab. Entomología, InDRE, Carpio 470, Col. Santo Tomas, México D.F., 11340, MEXICO
Secretaria de Salud, Chilpancingo, Guerrero, MEXICO
Diptera Ceratopogonidae Atrichopogon new species Mexico

Abstract

Two distinctive new species of the genus Atrichopogon Kieffer from Mexico are described and illustrated based on adults: Atrichopogon pachito, sister species to A. didymothecae Macfie, and Atrichopogon grogani, similar to A. mexicanus Huerta. The two new species Mexican were collected with Malaise traps.

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