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Issue: Vol. 5458 No. 3: 29 May 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-05-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5458.3.8
Page range: 442-448
Abstract views: 57
PDF downloaded: 2

A new species of Malacophagomyia (Malacophagomyia) Lopes, 1966 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) collected from an urban zone of Southern Colombia

Universidad de la Amazonia; Grupo de Investigación en Entomología Universidad de la Amazonia -GIEUA-; Laboratorio de Entomología -LEUA-; Av. 11 5–69 Juan XXIII; Florencia; Caquetá; Colombia
Universidad de la Amazonia; Grupo de Investigación en Entomología Universidad de la Amazonia -GIEUA-; Laboratorio de Entomología -LEUA-; Av. 11 5–69 Juan XXIII; Florencia; Caquetá; Colombia
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Buenos Aires; Argentina. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales; Buenos Aires; MACN
Diptera Flesh flies morphology Neotropical Region Sarcophaginae taxonomy

Abstract

Malacophagomyia Lopes, 1966 is a genus with Neotropical distribution, composed of two subgenera and four species. A new species of Malacophagomyia is described from Colombia, Malacophagomyia (Malacophagomyia) gaelana sp. nov. (type-locality: Caquetá, Florencia), collected in the urban area. Key to species identification and a distribution map for the species of the genus is presented.

 

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