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Issue: Vol. 4402 No. 3: 29 Mar. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-03-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4402.3.7
Page range: 542–550
Abstract views: 78
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Podonomus amarali n. sp., a new species of the albinervis group (Diptera: Chironomidae: Podonominae) from Atlantic Forest, southern Brazil

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Depto. de Ecologia e Zoologia, CEP 88040-901, Florianópolis—SC, Brazil
Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Centro de Ciências da Natureza, CEP 18290-000, Rod. Lauri Simões de Barros, km 12, Buri—SP, Brazil.
Diptera Chironomidae hygropetric Brazil albinervis group

Abstract

Podonomus amarali sp. n. is described from male, female, larva and pupa collected in the Brazilian Atlantic Highlands. The new species belongs to the albinervis group, which comprises eight Andean species.

 

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