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Issue: Vol. 3232 No. 1: 13 Mar. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-03-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3232.1.3
Page range: 62–68
Abstract views: 32
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of Bezzia Kieffer from Argentina (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, CCT La Plata CONICET, Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900 La Plata, Argentina
División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, CCT La Plata CONICET, Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900 La Plata, Argentina
División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, CCT La Plata CONICET, Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900 La Plata, Argentina
Diptera Bezzia ventanensis new species Neotropical taxonomy

Abstract

Bezzia ventanensis Spinelli, a new Neotropical species, is described and illustrated based on pupae and adults. Pupae werecollected from muddy water from the edge of a stream margin in Sierra de la Ventana, Buenos Aires province, Argentina.Specimens were carried back to the laboratory and conditioned in vials until adult emergence. This new species is similarto Bezzia brevicornis (Kieffer), from which it can be mainly distinguished by the female adult bearing two well developed spermathecae, and by the pupal respiratory organ with 13–15 spiracles.

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