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Issue: Vol. 3947 No. 2: 15 Apr. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-04-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3947.2.9
Page range: 275–281
Abstract views: 69
PDF downloaded: 2

Amazonimyia gigantea gen. n., sp. n., a new Tanypodinae (Diptera: Chironomidae) from the Neotropical Region

Museum of Comparative Zoology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Münchhausenstr. 21, D-81247 München, Germany.
Brazil Amazonimyia Pentaneurini Neotropical taxonomy

Abstract

A new genus, Amazonimyia, is established for a species of the tribe Pentaneurini (Diptera, Chironomidae, Tanypodinae) from the Amazon Rainforest in northern Brazil. Generic diagnoses for adult male and pupa are provided together with descriptions of a new species, Amazonimyia gigantea.