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Issue: Vol. 2026 No. 1: 4 Mar. 2009
Type: Article
Published: 2009-03-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2026.1.7
Page range: 63–68
Abstract views: 32
PDF downloaded: 1

The enigmatic genus Ctenostylum Macquart with the description of a new species from the Brazilian Amazon Basin and a checklist of world Ctenostylidae species (Diptera)

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Coordenação de Pesquisas em Entomologia, Caixa Postal 478, 69011–970, Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil Fellow of CNPq
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, 66040–170, Belém, Pará, Brasil
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Coordenação de Pesquisas em Entomologia, Caixa Postal 478, 69011–970, Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil Fellow of the Programa de Capacitação Institucional – PCI, MCT/CNPq/INPA
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Coordenação de Pesquisas em Entomologia, Caixa Postal 478, 69011–970, Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil Fellow of the Programa de Capacitação Institucional – PCI, MCT/CNPq/INPA
Diptera Amazon Basin Ctenostylidae Ctenostylum taxonomy

Abstract

The genus Ctenostylum Macquart, 1851 was known only from two male specimens, one from Brazil and one from Costa Rica. Ctenostylum fuscomaculatum n. sp., is described based in one female specimen collected in the Amazon Basin, the third specimen known. The diagnosis of the genus Ctenostylum is redefined and its relationships with other ctenostylid genera are discussed.

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