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Published: 2018-12-18
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Two new species of Atrichopogon Kieffer from Acre State, Brazil (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

Coleção de Ceratopogonidae, Laboratório de Diptera, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz-Fiocruz, Av. Brasil 4365, 21040-900 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Diptera biting midges Amazon rainforest Neotropical Region northern Brazil biodiversity

Abstract

Two new species of Atrichopogon, A. nukini and A. shawadaua, are described and illustrated based on male and female specimens from northern Brazil. The new species are compared to other ten species of Neotropical Atrichopogon which have distinctive pigmented wings, and a key to males of these species is provided.

 

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