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Issue: Vol. 262 No. 1: 11 Aug. 2003
Type: Article
Published: 2003-08-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.262.1.1
Page range: 1–10
Abstract views: 56
PDF downloaded: 3

A new phytotelmatic species of Monopelopia Fittkau, 1962 (Insecta: Diptera: Chironomidae: Tanypodinae) from South Brazil

Depto Biologia FFCLRP-USP, Av. Bandeirantes n. 3900, CEP-14040-901 Ribeirão Preto - SP, Brazil
Departamento de Microbiologia e Parasitologia da UFSC campus Trindade, 88049 Florianópolis – SC, Brazil
Departamento de Microbiologia e Parasitologia da UFSC campus Trindade, 88049 Florianópolis – SC, Brazil
Diptera Tanypodinae Monopelopia Neotropical Taxonomy Phytotelmata

Abstract

The new species Monopelopia caraguata sp. n. is figured and described. The material was collected in a bromeliad study in South Brazil – (Unidade de Conservação Ambiental Desterro – UCAD, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina State). A key to the Neotropical-Nearctic species is also provided.

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