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Issue: Vol. 4122 No. 1: 14 Jun. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-06-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.22
Page range: 246–248
Abstract views: 67
PDF downloaded: 3

FAMILY RHAGIONIDAE

Universidade Federal do ABC, Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Rua Santa Adélia, 166, Bairro Bangu, 09210-170, Santo André, SP, Brazil.
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av. André Araújo, 2936, Bairro Aleixo, 69060-001, Manaus, AM, Brazil.
Diptera catalogue Chrysopilus Colombia distribution Neotropical Rhagionidae

Abstract

The family Rhagionidae is one of the oldest Brachyeran lineages. Its monophyly is still uncertain. There are four rhagionid genera distributed in Neotropical Region but only three species of Chrysopilus are found in Colombia.

 

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