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Issue: Vol. 4388 No. 4: 6 Mar. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-03-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4388.4.8
Page range: 567–574
Abstract views: 61
PDF downloaded: 2

After seventy-seven years Ptiloneuropsis Roesler (Psocodea: Psocomorpha: Ptiloneuridae) ceases to be a monotypic genus: a new species from Bahia, Brazil

Departamento de Zoología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 70-153, 04510 México, D. F., MÉXICO.
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia - INPA, CPEN - Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia, Campus II, Caixa postal 478, CEP 69011-97, Manaus, Amazonas,
Plecoptera Epipsocetae psocids neotropics taxonomy

Abstract

A new species of Ptiloneuropsis from the Brazilian state of Bahia is here described and illustrated, it is based on male and female specimens; it differs from P. immaculata Roesler in details of the hypandrium and phallosome; the female is the first known in the genus.

 

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