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Issue: Vol. 4444 No. 3: 10 Jul. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-07-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4444.3.3
Page range: 267–282
Abstract views: 96
PDF downloaded: 82

New species and records of Cheiromyia Dyte from Brazil and French Guiana (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)

Diptera Unit, Canadian National Collection of Insects, Invertebrate Biodiversity, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, K.W. Neatby Building, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0C6, CANADA.
Diptera Unit, Canadian National Collection of Insects, Invertebrate Biodiversity, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, K.W. Neatby Building, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0C6, CANADA.
Universidade Estadual do Maranhão, Centro de Estudos Superiores de Caxias, Laboratório de Estudos dos Invertebrados, 65604–380, Caxias, Maranhão, BRAZIL.
Research Team Species Diversity (SPECDIV), Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Kliniekstraat 25, B-1070 Brussels, BELGIUM; Research Group Terrestrial Ecology (TEREC), University of Ghent (Ugent), K.L.Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 Ghent, BELGIUM; and Department of Entomology, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Vautierstraat 29, B-1000 Brussels, BELGIUM.
Diptera Empidoidea Dolichopodidae Cheiromyia Neotropical Brazil French Guiana new species key

Abstract

Cheiromyia carolina Limeira-de-Oliveira & Brooks sp. nov. and C. nordestina Limeira-de-Oliveira & Cumming sp. nov. are described from Brazil, and C. fuscipennis Pollet & Brooks sp. nov. is described from the Mitaraka Mountains in southwestern French Guiana. New distribution records are reported for C. brevitarsis Brooks, C. palmaticornis (Parent) and C. pennaticornis (Parent), and a revised key to males of the eight known species of Cheiromyia Dyte, 1980 is provided. The female of C. pennaticornis is also described for the first time.

 

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