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Issue: Vol. 5194 No. 3: 6 Oct. 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-10-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5194.3.6
Page range: 426-434
Abstract views: 229
PDF downloaded: 31

Three new species of Tanytarsus van der Wulp (Diptera: Chironomidae) from the Amazon rainforest

Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Av. Djalma Batista, 2470, CEP: 69050-010, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
Engineering Research Center of Environmental DNA and Ecological Water Health Assessment, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China.
INPA, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Departamento de Entomologia, André Araújo, 2.936, Petrópolis, CEP 69.067-375, Manaus, Brazil.
Diptera Amazon region Brazil Neotropical region news species Tanytarsus

Abstract

In the present study, three new species of Tanytarsus, collected in Brazilian Amazonia, are described and illustrated as adult males: T. pollicis sp. nov., T. marianae sp. nov. and T. rafaeli sp. nov. Tanytarsus pollicis is placed in kiche species group due to its bilobed superior volsella. Tanytarsus marianae and T. rafaeli are not placed in any known species group, and although these two new species share characters that suggest they may be closely related, we do not propose that they form a new species group for Tanytarsus without prior phylogenetic analysis.

 

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