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Issue: Vol. 5492 No. 1: 2 Aug. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-08-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5492.1.2
Page range: 25-51
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Four new species and new records of Macrostomus Wiedemann (Diptera: Empididae) from Northern and Northeastern Regions of Brazil

Universidade Estadual do Maranhão; Laboratório de Estudos dos Invertebrados; Programa de Pós-graduação em Biodiversidade; Ambiente e Saúde; 65604–380; Caxias; Maranhão; Brazil
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia; Coordenação de Biodiversidade; Manaus; Amazonas; Brazil
Universidade Estadual do Maranhão; Laboratório de Estudos dos Invertebrados; 65604–380; Caxias; Maranhão; Brazil
Diptera biodiversity Empidinae Empidoidea Neotropical taxonomy

Abstract

Macrostomus Wiedemann is recorded for the first time in the Cerrado Biome and also from the state of Maranhão, Brazil. The following species are treated here: Macrostomus maranhensis sp. nov. and Macrostomus paraiba Rafael & Cumming (M. amazonensis species-group); Macrostomus ferrugineus (Fabricius) and Macrostomus gurupi sp. nov. (M. ferrugineus species-group), Macrostomus cummingi sp. nov. (M. pictipennis species-group) and Macrostomus paraensis sp. nov. (unplaced species-group). A map showing the distribution of these species is presented.

 

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