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Issue: Vol. 2350 No. 1: 3 Feb. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-02-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2350.1.2
Page range: 22–34
Abstract views: 36
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The genus Phthinia Winnertz (Diptera, Mycetophilidae) in the Neotropical region, with the first records from Brazil

Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Departamento de Biologia, Avenida Bandeirantes 3900, CEP 14040-901, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, BRAZIL. Partially developed under FAPESP Grant 2003/10.274-9
Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Departamento de Biologia, Avenida Bandeirantes 3900, CEP 14040-901, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, BRAZIL. Partially developed under FAPESP Grant 2003/10.274-9
Diptera Phthinia Mycetophilidae Neotropics Taxonomy

Abstract

Three Neotropical species of Phthinia Winnertz have been described to date. The genus is known from Chile and southern Argentina. Four new species are herein described for the genus in the region, two from Brazil—Phthinia theresae, sp.n., from the State of Espírito Santo, and Phithinia urubici, sp.n., from the State of Santa Catarina—and two from Chile—Phthinia freemani, sp.n., and Phthinia parafurcata, sp.n. Comments are made about the relationships between the Neotropical species. Some notes are added about P. furcata Freeman, P. flagellata Freeman, and P. fasciata Freeman, from Chile and southern Argentina. Attention is called for the fact that Phthinia has two species in Brazil disjunct from the other temperate species of the genus in South America, differently from most similar cases, that have a single known representative in Brazil.

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