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Issue: Vol. 3893 No. 2: 8 Dec. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-12-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3893.2.3
Page range: 209–231
Abstract views: 80
PDF downloaded: 3

Neotropical Hemerodromia Meigen (Diptera: Empididae), a world of discovery I: new generic record and new species from Brazilian Amazon Basin

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, INPA, Programa de Pós-graduação em Entomologia, Caixa Postal 2223, 69080–971 Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
Department of Biodiversity and Systematic Biology, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, U.K.
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, INPA, Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Caixa Postal 2223, 69080–971 Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
Empidoidea Hemerodromiinae Hemerodromiini Neotropical taxonomy

Abstract

Ten new species of Hemerodromia Meigen, 1822 are described and illustrated from the Brazilian state of Amazonas: H. amazonensis sp. nov., H. breviradia sp. nov., H. cercusdilatata sp. nov., H. collini sp. nov., H. epandriocurvialis sp. nov., H. jauensis sp. nov., H. lamellata sp. nov., H. longilamellata sp. nov., H. maturaca sp. nov., H. smithi sp. nov. This is the first record of the genus from the Brazilian Amazon Basin.