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Issue: Vol. 4162 No. 2: 9 Sept. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-09-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4162.2.11
Page range: 373–380
Abstract views: 73
PDF downloaded: 32

Uncovering the diversity of the neotropical genus Elaphopsocus (‘Psocoptera’: Psocidae: Amphigerontiinae): from one to ten species

Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas, Universidad del Valle, Santiago de Cali, Colombia. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, U.S.A.
Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas, Universidad del Valle, Santiago de Cali, Colombia.
Departamento de Zoología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 70–153, 04510. CdMx, México.
Psocoptera taxonomy Psocodea ‘Psocoptera’ Neotropics

Abstract

For 75 years, the genus Elaphopsocus was considered a monotypic lineage of neotropical psocids. As a result of recent work in South America, this genus presently includes seven species from Brazil and Colombia. We here describe three new species from the East Colombian high Andes.

 

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