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Issue: Vol. 4221 No. 4: 19 Jan. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-01-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4221.4.5
Page range: 486–490
Abstract views: 76
PDF downloaded: 1

New species and records of Zavreliella Kieffer, 1920 from Neotropical region (Diptera: Chironomidae)

Departamento de Hidrobiologia, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, 42494, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Diptera non-biting midges biodiversity taxonomy Amazon

Abstract

A new species of Zavreliella Kieffer, Zavreliella kambeba sp. n., is described, based on male adults collected in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil. Further seven Zavreliella species are recorded for new localities in Brazil, with the first Neotropical record of Z. marmorata (van der Wulp). The genus Zavreliella is now composed of 15 species, of which adult males are reviewed in a key to their identification.

 

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