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Issue: Vol. 4122 No. 1: 14 Jun. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-06-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.40
Page range: 538–548
Abstract views: 99
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FAMILY MICROPEZIDAE

School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1
Grupo de Entomología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad de Antioquia. Colombia
Grupo de Entomología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad de Antioquia. Colombia
Diptera catalogue Colombia Micropezidae distribution

Abstract

Sixty species and 14 genera of Micropezidae are recorded from Colombia, including four species of Micropezinae and 56 species of Taeniapterinae. The following species are newly recorded from the country: Grallipeza affinis, G. ecuadoriensis, G. obscura, G. nigrinotata, G. pseudosimplex, Ptilosphen comis, P. conveniens, P. enderleni, P. facetus and P. mimicus.

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