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Issue: Vol. 4358 No. 1: 28 Nov. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-11-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4358.1.6
Page range: 142–160
Abstract views: 118
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New species and new records of Monohelea Kieffer from eastern Amazon, Brazil (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

Coleção de Ceratopogonidae, Laboratório de Diptera, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Av. Brasil 4365, CEP 21040-900, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Coleção de Ceratopogonidae, Laboratório de Diptera, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Av. Brasil 4365, CEP 21040-900, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Amapá, Rod. Juscelino Kubitschek, Km 02, Macapá, AP, Brazil.
Diptera Monohelea predaceous midges Brazil Pará new species new records

Abstract

Seven new species of Monohelea Kieffer are described and illustrated and new records from M. affinis Felippe-Bauer & Spinelli, M. guaimiesi Lane & Wirth and M. maculipennis (Coquillett) are given based on specimens collected in Pará State, eastern Brazilian Amazon. The new species are compared with their similar congeners and the distributional records of both new and previously described species are presented in Figure 1. A key for identification of the Brazilian Amazonian species of Monohelea is also provided.

 

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