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Issue: Vol. 4028 No. 2: 8 Oct. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-10-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4028.2.2
Page range: 197–214
Abstract views: 41
PDF downloaded: 1

Neotropical Hemerodromia Meigen (Diptera: Empididae), a world of discovery II: New species from Atlantic forest, Brazil

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, INPA, Programa de Pós-graduação em Entomologia, Caixa Postal 2223, 69080–971 Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
Laboratório de Entomologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68044, Rio de Janeiro, 21941-971, 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.
Diptera Empidoidea Hemerodromiinae Brazilian Atlantic forest Neotropical Realm taxonomy

Abstract

Eight new species of Hemerodromia Meigen are described from the Brazilian Atlantic forest, H. brevicercata sp. nov., H. carioca sp. nov., H. cornuhypandrialis sp. nov., H. megalamellata sp. nov., H. membranosa sp. nov., H. mourai sp. nov., H. cummingi sp. nov., and H. ubajaraensis sp. nov. are described and illustrated. This is the first record of the genus from the Brazilian southeast and northeast.