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Issue: Vol. 2148 No. 1: 3 Jul. 2009
Type: Articles
Published: 2009-07-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2148.1.2
Page range: 27–38
Abstract views: 142
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Neotropical Mecoptera (Insecta): New generic synonymies, new combinations, key to families and genera, and checklist of species

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia - INPA, Coordenação de Pesquisas em Entomologia, Caixa Postal 478, 69011–970, Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia - INPA, Coordenação de Pesquisas em Entomologia, Caixa Postal 478, 69011–970, Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia - INPA, Coordenação de Pesquisas em Entomologia, Caixa Postal 478, 69011–970, Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil
Mecoptera Bittacus key Neobittacus taxonomy Thyridates

Abstract

Two Neotropical genera of Mecoptera (Thyridates Navás, 1908, Neobittacus Esben–Petersen, 1914 n. syn.) are synonymized under Bittacus Latreille, 1805. The following are new combinations: Bittacus aripuanaensis (Penny, 1977) n. comb., B. brunnipenis (Collucci & Amorim, 2000) n. comb., B. froehlichi (Collucci & Amorim, 2000) n. comb., B. latreillei (Collucci & Amorim, 2000) n. comb., B. novokschonovi (Petrulevičius, 2003) n. comb. and B. willmanni (Collucci & Amorim, 2001) n. comb.. A pictorial key to Neotropical families and genera and a checklist of Neotropical species are presented.

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