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Issue: Vol. 4748 No. 2: 6 Mar. 2020
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2020-03-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4748.2.12
Page range: 396–400
Abstract views: 85
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The giant “penis” of a newly described species in the subgenus Scotoconiopteryx from Peru (Neuroptera: Coniopterygidae: Coniopteryginae: Coniopteryx)

Chair of Zoology – Entomological Division, Technical University of Munich, Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2, 85354 Freising, Germany.
Natural History Museum, 2nd Zoological Department, Burgring 7, A-1010 Vienna, Austria and Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Vienna, Althanstraße 14, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
Neuroptera Coniopterygidae Coniopteryginae Coniopteryx

Abstract

The coniopterygid fauna of the Neotropical region is poorly known. The most recent summary was provided by Martins (2019) who noted that 14 species were known from Peru. The subgenus Coniopteryx (Scotoconiopteryx) is endemic to the Neotropical region and comprises 36 species (Meinander 1972; Meinander & Penny 1982; Sziráki 2011; Martins & Amorim 2016, Sarmiento-Cordero & Contreras-Ramos 2019).

 

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