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Issue: Vol. 4066 No. 4: 18 Jan. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-01-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4066.4.8
Page range: 477–484
Abstract views: 44
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of the predaceous midge genus Brachypogon Kieffer from the Neotropical Region and first description of the female of Brachypogon (Isohelea) cuacuahuitlus Huerta & Borkent (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

Laboratorio de Entomología, InDRE. Calle Francisco de P. Miranda No. 177, Col. Unidad Lomas de Plateros, Delegación Álvaro Obregón, México, D.F., 01480. MEXICO.
División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900 La Plata, Argentina.
Diptera Ceratopogonidae Mexico Brachypogon new species Neotropical region

Abstract

The predaceous midge genus Brachypogon Kieffer is presently known in Mexico by Brachypogon (Brachypogon) fuscivenosus (Lutz, 1914), B. (B.) bimaculatus Spinelli & Grogan, 1998, B. (B.) woodruffi Spinelli & Grogan, 1998 and B. (Isohelea) cuacuahuitlus Huerta & Borkent, 2005. In this contribution a new species, Brachypogon (Brachypogon) ginue, is described and illustrated from a male specimen collected in Tlanchinol, State of Hidalgo, Mexico. This new species belongs to the impar species group. The first description of the female of Brachypogon (Isohelea) cuacuahuitlus Huerta & Borkent is also provided.

 

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