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Issue: Vol. 1944 No. 1: 28 Nov. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-11-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1944.1.1
Page range: 1–33
Abstract views: 58
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Revision of the temperate South American genus Apiochaeta Czerny, 1903, with synonymy of Alloclusia Hendel, 1917 (Diptera: Clusiidae)

Entomology Department, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, 10th & Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, D.C., 20560-0169
Insect Systematics Lab, Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada
Diptera Clusiidae Alloclusia Apiochaeta synonymy new species revision Chile Argentina

Abstract

Apiochaeta Czerny, 1903, the only genus of Clusiidae endemic to temperate South America, is revised with the description of 16 species from Chile and Argentina. The redefined Apiochaeta includes all former species of Apiochaeta and Alloclusia Hendel, 1917 syn. n., as well as four species described here as new: A. dacryodes sp. n., A. furcillata sp. n., A. lenticula sp. n. and A. mallochi sp. n. Apiochaeta aequalis Malloch, syn. n. is included as a junior synonym of Apiochaeta aterrima Malloch, Alloclusia varia var. claripennis Malloch, syn. n. is included as a junior synonym of Apiochaeta varia (Malloch), comb. nov., and Peratochaetus limbipennis Rondani syn. n. is treated as a junior synonym of Apiochaeta vitticollis (Blanchard), comb. nov.

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