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Issue: Vol. 4122 No. 1: 14 Jun. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-06-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.12
Page range: 62–64
Abstract views: 59
PDF downloaded: 1

FAMILY LYGISTORRHINIDAE

Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Campus II. Prédio ICB1, 74001-970. Goiânia GO Brazil.
Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo. Av. Bandeirantes, 3900. 14040-901. Ribeirão Preto SP Brazil.
Diptera catalogue Colombia Distribution Lygistorrhinidae

Abstract

The Lygistorrhinidae are a family belonging to the suborder Bibionomorpha, with no previous record from Colombia. This paper refers for the first time to the occurrence of the family in the country, an undetermined species of the genus Lygistorrhina (Probolaeus) Williston.

 

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