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Issue: Vol. 4317 No. 1: 1 Sept. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-09-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4317.1.6
Page range: 134–154
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Brazilian Pseudochironomini (Diptera: Chironomidae) Part 1. New Pseudochironomus Malloch from highlands

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Recursos Naturais, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Laboratório de Ecologia de Insetos Aquáticos, Depto. de Hidrobiologia, CEP 12565-905, Rod. Washington Luiz, km 235, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Laboratório de Ecologia de Insetos Aquáticos, Depto. de Hidrobiologia, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.
Diptera Brazil low-order streams mountain Neotropical region tropical forests

Abstract

Four new species of Pseudochironomus Malloch were recorded in Brazilian highlands, three from Atlantic forest and one from Amazon Forest. Adult males and immature stages of Pseudochironomus ruah sp. n., P. jordensis sp. n. and adult males of P. mocidade sp. n., P. surianae sp. n. are described and illustrated. Adult males and females of P. ruah sp. n. were associated using DNA barcodes along with a NJ tree for all Pseudochironomini barcoding sequences publicly available. An emendation to generic diagnoses is provided, once it is the first time that thoracic acrostichals have been described for Pseudochironomus species.

 

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