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Issue: Vol. 4763 No. 1: 8 Apr. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-04-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4763.1.10
Page range: 117–124
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A new marine intertidal chironomid from the Brazilian coast (Diptera: Chironomidae: Telmatogetoninae)

1Universidade Federal de São Carlos—UFSCar, Departamento de Hidrobiologia, Laboratório de Entomologia Aquática-LEA, C. P. 676, 13565-905, São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
Universidade de São Paulo, Museu de Zoologia—MZUSP, Laboratório de Diptera, 04263-000, São Paulo—SP, Brazil.
Universidade Federal de São Carlos—UFSCar, Departamento de Hidrobiologia, Laboratório de Entomologia Aquática-LEA, C. P. 676, 13565-905, São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
Diptera immature stages Neotropical region taxonomy

Abstract

The male, female, pupa and larva of a new Neotropical chironomid species, Telmatogeton yamaguchiae sp. n., are described and illustrated. Specimens were collected in southeastern Brazilian coast.

 

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