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Issue: Vol. 3590 No. 1: 18 Dec. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-12-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3590.1.3
Page range: 23–36
Abstract views: 45
PDF downloaded: 3

Stylogaster Macquart, 1835 (Diptera: Conopidae) from Northeastern Brazil: new records and two new species

Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio de Janeiro, Rua Dr. José Augusto Pereira dos Santos, s/no, 24425-005, Neves, São Gonçalo, RJ, Brazil Program of post graduation in Biological Sciences – Zoology, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Departamento de Entomologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, s/no, 20940-040, São Cristóvão, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Diptera taxonomy Stylogastrinae dry areas distribution

Abstract

Of the 69 Neotropical species of Stylogaster, only one record was previously known from Northeastern Brazil (from Bahia state in 1985—S. brasilia Camras & Parrillo). Several specimens from this region housed at the MNRJ collection were studied, mostly from Bahia, Ceará and Pernambuco states. Two new records were obtained: S. macrura Lopes, 1938, previously known from São Paulo state (Southeastern Brazil), and S. souzai Monteiro, 1960, from Amapá and Pará (Northern Brazil). Descriptions of two new species, S. hugoi sp. nov. and  S. planitarsis sp. nov. are presented, as well as that of the previously unknown female of S. souzai. Illustrations and geographic distribution of the species are also provided.

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