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Issue: Vol. 4144 No. 3: 28 Jul. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-07-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4144.3.1
Page range: 301–315
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Two new, brachypterous Limnellia species from the Venezuelan Andes (Diptera: Ephydridae)

Fellowship of Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Jardim das Américas, 81531-980 - Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Jardim das Américas, 81531-980 - Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Jardim das Américas, 81531-980 - Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
Department of Entomology, Smithsonian Institution, NHB 169, PO Box 37012, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012, USA.
Diptera Shore flies Ephydrinae Scatellini L. flavifrontis L. vounitis New World Neotropical systematics taxonomy

Abstract

Two new, brachypterous species of Limnellia are described from specimens collected in the Venezuelan Andes: L. vounitis (Trujillo: Bocon, La Cristalina (Andes; 09°14.7′N, 70°19.1′W; 2500 m)) and L. flavifrontis (Mérida: Mérida, Sierra Nevada National Park (Laguna Negra; 8°47.1'N; 70°48.4'W; 3300 m)). To facilitate identification of these unusual species, we have included a diagnosis of the tribe Scatellini and of the genus Limnellia and have also provided an annotated key to the South American genera of this tribe. The descriptions are supplemented with illustrations, photographs, and scanning electron micrographs of external structures and structures of the male terminalia.

 

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