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Issue: Vol. 5270 No. 1: 19 Apr. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-04-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5270.1.6
Page range: 115-123
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New genus and species of moth flies (Psychodidae: Psychodinae) from a mountainous area in the Atlantic Forest of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Instituto Nacional da Mata Atlântica; Santa Tereza; ES
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (CBio); Manaus; AM; Brazil
Diptera New taxa rio Doce basin taxonomy Maruinini hygropetric fauna

Abstract

Maruinini is one of the most diverse tribes of moth flies in the Neotropical region. We describe two new species, Arisemus sinuosus sp. nov. and Neopericoma bela gen. nov. et sp. nov., collected in streams and waterfalls of a mountainous formation on the Brazilian Atlantic Forest of eastern Minas Gerais, Brazil. In contrast to the morphology of the type species of Australopericoma Vaillant, a new genus is proposed, Neopericoma gen. nov., to accommodate one new species and other eight species previously placed in Australopericoma: N. abnormalis (Quate & Brown) comb. nov., N. bulbula (Quate & Brown) comb. nov., N. cesticela (Quate & Brown) comb. nov., N. exilis (Quate & Brown) comb. nov., N. onofrei (Araújo & Bravo) comb. nov., N. pallidula (Tonnoir) comb. nov., N. roessleri (Wagner and Joost) comb. nov., N. xavierae (Araújo & Bravo) comb. nov. This is the first record of Arisemus in the State of Minas Gerais.

 

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