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Issue: Vol. 4311 No. 3: 24 Aug. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-08-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4311.3.3
Page range: 373–388
Abstract views: 172
PDF downloaded: 73

Society Islands beach bum black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) 

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2E9.
Pacific Biological Survey, Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice Street, Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96817-2704, USA.
Diptera Simuliidae Simulium Inseliellum Society Islands new species

Abstract

Aspects of the body of work on the Central and Western Pacific black fly Simulium (Inseliellum) are briefly reviewed. Female adults collected from beaches in Tahiti and Raiatea are described as Simulium (Inseliellum) littopyga n. sp., Simulium (Inseliellum) littosocius n. sp. and Simulium (Inseliellum) littosodalis n. sp.. Immature stages of the three species are not associated.

 

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