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Issue: Vol. 5093 No. 4: 28 Jan. 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-01-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5093.4.4
Page range: 445-464
Abstract views: 329
PDF downloaded: 15

Five new species in the predaceous midge genus Macrurohelea Ingram & Macfie from Argentina, and descriptions of the previously unknown males of M. kuscheli Wirth and M. monotheca Spinelli & Grogan (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900 La Plata, Argentina.
Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de la Argentina – Universidad Nacional de La Plata), Boulevard 120 y 62 s/n, 1900 La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, Florida 32614-7100 USA.
Diptera Ceratopogoninae Ceratopogonini Neotropical taxonomy distribution

Abstract

Five new Neotropical species in the predaceous midge genus Macrurohelea Ingram & Macfie are described: M. bassoi, M. donatoi, M. morenoi, M. sirii, and M. ventanensis, n. spp. and the previously unknown males of M. kuscheli Wirth and M. monotheca Spinelli & Grogan are described from specimens collected in several localities of Argentina and Chile. Illustrations and photomicrographs of key features of both sexes are provided as well as a key to all Neotropical species of Macrurohelea.

 

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