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Issue: Vol. 5027 No. 1: 30 Aug. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-08-30
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5027.1.9
Page range: 145-149
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New species of Chaetonerius Hendel (Diptera: Neriidae) from the Oriental Region

Laboratório de Estudos em Diversidade de Insetos da Região Neotropical, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná. Caixa Postal 19020, 81531-980 Curitiba, PR, Brasil.
Laboratório de Estudos em Diversidade de Insetos da Região Neotropical, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná. Caixa Postal 19020, 81531-980 Curitiba, PR, Brasil.
Diptera Banana-stalk flies cactus flies Nerioidea taxonomy

Abstract

The genus Chaetonerius Hendel has 25 valid species, predominantly distributed in the Afrotropical Region with only three species recorded for the Oriental Region. Herein, we describe a new species, Chaetonerius colavitei sp. n., from material collected in Thailand and Malaysia.

 

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