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Issue: Vol. 4363 No. 3: 12 Dec. 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-12-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4363.3.10
Page range: 445–450
Abstract views: 73
PDF downloaded: 2

A new species of Mycomya Rondani (Diptera, Mycetophilidae, Mycomyinae) from Argentinean Patagonia

Laboratorio de Investigaciones en Ecología y Sistemática Animal (LIESA), CIEMEP (CONICET-UNPSJB) Roca 780, 9200 Esquel, Chubut, Argentina.
Laboratorio de Investigaciones en Ecología y Sistemática Animal (LIESA), CIEMEP (CONICET-UNPSJB) Roca 780, 9200 Esquel, Chubut, Argentina.
Laboratorio de Investigaciones en Ecología y Sistemática Animal (LIESA), CIEMEP (CONICET-UNPSJB) Roca 780, 9200 Esquel, Chubut, Argentina.
Diptera Mycetophilidae Mycomyinae Argentinean Patagonia

Abstract

Mycomya bowiei n. sp. is described based on male and female specimens from Argentinean Patagonia. Additionally, we provide a redescription of Mycomya bifida Freman (1951) and new records of three species of Mycomya previously unrecorded from either Chubut Province or Argentina.

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