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Issue: Vol. 5537 No. 1: 7 Nov. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-11-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5537.1.1
Page range: 1-23
Abstract views: 129
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Insect (Hexapoda) diversity in the oceanic archipelago of Fernando de Noronha, Brazil: Lauxaniidae (Diptera)

Graduate Program in Entomology (PPG-Ent); Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA); Av. André Araújo; 2936; Petrópolis; CEP 69067-375; Manaus; Amazonas; Brazil
Dipterists Society; P.O. Box 231113; Sacramento; California 95823; USA
Graduate Program in Entomology (PPG-Ent); Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA); Av. André Araújo; 2936; Petrópolis; CEP 69067-375; Manaus; Amazonas; Brazil
Universidade Estadual do Maranhão; Laboratório de Estudos dos Invertebrados; Praça Duque de Caixas; Morro do Alecrim; s/n; 65604-380 Caxias; MA; Brazil
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia; INPA; Coordenação de Biodiversidade; Manaus; Amazonas; Brazil
Diptera Camptoprosopella Pachyopella Poecilominettia new species oceanic islands fauna

Abstract

The Lauxaniidae fauna from the oceanic Archipelago of Fernando de Noronha, Brazil is revised. Three genera and four species are recognized: Camptoprosopella equatorialis Shewell, 1939, Pachyopella flavida (Wiedemann, 1824), Poecilominettia erebus Soares & Gaimari, sp. nov. and Poecilominettia octovittata (Williston, 1896). In addition, we provided an illustrated key and high-resolution photographs of external morphology and male and female terminalia of species. Finally, we present the first insights into the effects of climate variables on the abundance of the species analyzed.

 

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