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Issue: Vol. 4122 No. 1: 14 Jun. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-06-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.28
Page range: 346–349
Abstract views: 56
PDF downloaded: 1

FAMILY ACROCERIDAE

Bohart Museum of Entomology, 1124 Academic Surge, University of California Davis, CA, USA, 95616
Diptera catalogue Colombia Distribution Neotropical Spider flies spider parasitoid

Abstract

A catalog of the Acroceridae from Colombia is provided. Five species and five genera are recorded for the country, including one undescribed Ocnaea species.

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