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Issue: Vol. 4822 No. 3: 6 Aug. 2020
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2020-08-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4822.3.10
Page range: 443–445
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Redescription of Stilobezzia (Stilobezzia) albicoxa Lane & Forattini, 1956 with new synonymy (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

INPA, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Divisão de Curso em Entomologia, André Araújo, 2.936, Petrópolis, CEP 69.067-375, Manaus, Brasil.
INPA, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Divisão de Curso em Entomologia, André Araújo, 2.936, Petrópolis, CEP 69.067-375, Manaus, Brasil.
INPA, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Divisão de Curso em Entomologia, André Araújo, 2.936, Petrópolis, CEP 69.067-375, Manaus, Brasil.
División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, edificio Anexo Museo, 122 y 60 s/n La Plata, CP 1900, Argentina and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)
Diptera Ceratopogonidae

Abstract

Stilobezzia Kieffer, 1911 is a diverse genus of predaceous Ceratopogonidae (Ceratopogoninae: Ceratopogonini) with 349 species recognized worldwide (Borkent & Dominiak 2020). The genus has four subgenera, three occurs in Brazil, where Stilobezzia s. str. is the most speciose, with 23 species registered (Santarém & Felippe-Bauer 2019).

 

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