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Issue: Vol. 2064 No. 1: 6 Apr. 2009
Type: Article
Published: 2009-04-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2064.1.4
Page range: 39–56
Abstract views: 48
PDF downloaded: 2

Revision of the genus Macrostomus Wiedemann (Diptera: Empididae: Empidinae). I. The ferrugineus species-group

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Coordenação de Entomologia, Caixa Postal 478, 69011–970,Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
Invertebrate Biodiversity, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, K.W. Neatby Bldg, C.E.F., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0C6
Diptera Amazon Basin distribution taxonomy Macrostomus Empididae

Abstract

All species of Macrostomus Wiedemann allied with the type-species, Macrostomus ferrugineus (Fabricius), are treated in the ferrugineus species-group. Three currently recognized species and six new species are included, namely M. fuscithorax, n. sp. from Brazil (Amazonas state), M. fusciventris, n. sp. from Brazil (Amazonas and Acre states), M. melanothorax, n. sp. from Peru and Brazil (Amazonas state), M. ferrugineus (Fabricius), M. longipennis, n. sp. from Brazil (Amazonas state), M. flavus, n. sp. from Brazil (Roraima and Amazonas states), M. furcatus, n. sp. from Brazil (Amazonas and Acre states), M. fulvithorax (Curran) and M. occidentalis Rafael & Cumming. A key to species is presented.

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