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Issue: Vol. 4974 No. 2: 20 May 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-05-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4974.2.8
Page range: 391–395
Abstract views: 107
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New species of Boreofairchildia Wagner & Stuckenberg and Laurenceomyia Wagner & Stuckenberg (Diptera: Psychodidae: Bruchomyiinae) from Brazil

Unidade de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Av. Marechal Campos 1468, 29.040-090, Vitória, ES, Brazil.
Laboratório de Doenças Parasitárias, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, FIOCRUZ, Av. Brasil 4365, 21.040-360, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Laboratório de Doenças Parasitárias, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, FIOCRUZ, Av. Brasil 4365, 21.040-360, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Diptera Taxonomy morphology moth flies Neotropical region

Abstract

Two new species of Bruchomyiinae Macquart from Brazil are described and illustrated. Laurenceomyia peixotoi Santos, Brazil & Pinto sp. nov. to Amazon Forest and Boreofairchildia alexanderi Santos, Brazil & Pinto sp. nov. to Atlantic Forest.

 

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