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Issue: Vol. 1720 No. 1: 5 Mar. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-03-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1720.1.3
Page range: 57–65
Abstract views: 42
PDF downloaded: 1

New records of Scatopsidae (Diptera) from southeastern Mexico, and descriptions of new species of Swammerdamella Enderlein and Colobostema Enderlein

Lab. Entomología, Instituto de Diagnóstico y Referencia Epidemiológicos (InDRE), Carpio 470, Col. Santo Tomás, México D. F. 11340
Instituto de Ecología, A.C., Departamento de Biodiversidad y Ecología Animal, km 2.5 antigua carretera a Coatepec N° 351, Congregación El Haya 91070, Xalapa, Veracruz, México
Diptera Scatopsidae Colobostema Parascatopse Swammerdamella Thripomorpha Mexico distribution new species

Abstract

The following Scatopsidae species are recorded in Mexico by first time: Parascatopse flavida Cook, Thripomorpha chaboti Haenni and Rapp and Parascatopse sp., Colobostema hoffmannae sp. nov., Swammerdamella grogani sp. nov., and the female of Parascatopse flavida Cook are described.Keys words: Scatopsidae, Colobostema, Parascatopse, Swammerdamella, Thripomorpha, Mexico, distribution, new species

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