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Issue: Vol. 2333 No. 1: 12 Jan. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-01-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2333.1.3
Page range: 41–58
Abstract views: 38
PDF downloaded: 21

Revision of the Neotropical genus Cheiromyia Dyte (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)

Diptera Unit, Canadian National Collection of Insects, Invertebrate Biodiversity, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, K.W. Neatby Building, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0C6, CANADA
Diptera Unit, Canadian National Collection of Insects, Invertebrate Biodiversity, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, K.W. Neatby Building, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0C6, CANADA
Research Group Terrestrial Ecology, Dept. of Biology, Ghent University, K.L.Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 Ghent, BELGIUM, and Dept. of Entomology, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (KBIN), Vautierstraat 29, B-1000 Brussels, BELGIUM
Diptera Dolichopodidae Dolichopodinae Cheiromyia Paraclius Neotropical new species new combination key

Abstract

The Neotropical dolichopodine genus Cheiromyia is revised. The limits of the genus are redefined to include only those species with one or more elongate projections on the male postpedicel. Cheiromyia maculipennis (Van Duzee) is transferred to Paraclius Loew comb. nov. Cheiromyia is now known from Costa Rica south to Bolivia and the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, and includes the following five species: Cheiromyia bicornis Brooks sp. nov., C. brevitarsis Brooks sp. nov., C. laselva Brooks sp. nov., C. palmaticornis (Parent) and C. pennaticornis (Parent). A key to males is provided, as well as some remarks on related species of Paraclius.

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