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Issue: Vol. 2094 No. 1: 8 May. 2009
Type: Article
Published: 2009-05-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2094.1.4
Page range: 36–41
Abstract views: 48
PDF downloaded: 18

A new species of Pseudatrichia Osten Sacken (Diptera: Scenopinidae) from North America

Entomology, Queensland Department of Primary Industries & Fisheries, 80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Queensland, Australia and School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia
Diptera Pseudatrichia Asiloidea Therevoid clade Scenopinidae

Abstract

A new species of the North American genus Pseudatrichia Osten Sacken is described. Pseudatrichia bezarki sp. nov. is described based on a male and female reared from wood-boring beetle galleries in Pinus sp. from Arizona (United States).

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