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Issue: Vol. 4273 No. 4: 7 Jun. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-06-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4273.4.5
Page range: 549–558
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New records of Rhagoletis (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Colombia, with discussion on the morphological variations of some species

Museo Entomológico UNAB, Grupo Sistemática de Insectos Agronomía SIA. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá.
Museo Entomológico UNAB, Grupo Sistemática de Insectos Agronomía SIA. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá.
Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA, ARS, c/o Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 168, Washington, DC 20013–7012, USA.
Diptera Fruit flies Morphological variation Rhagoletis jamaicensis psalida group

Abstract

Rhagoletis jamaicensis Foote, 1981 and an undetermined species of the psalida group, are recorded for the first time in Colombia. The morphological variations of the Colombian specimens of these species and of other species closely related are discussed.

 

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