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Issue: Vol. 4728 No. 1: 21 Jan. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-01-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4728.1.2
Page range: 49–62
Abstract views: 58
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New Neotropical species of Lachesilla Westwood, in species group forcepeta (Psocodea: ‘Psocoptera’: Lachesillidae)

Departamento de Zoología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 70-153, 04510, CdMx, 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, Brazil.
Psocodea Taxonomy Neotropics psocids

Abstract

Eight species of Lachesilla, in species group forcepeta, are described and illustrated: three species from Costa Rica (Lachesilla herediana n. sp., Lachesilla raravis n. sp., and Lachesilla ticana n. sp.), one species from Costa Rica and Panama (Lachesilla odontiforceps n. sp.), one species each from Brazil (Lachesilla oriximinaensis n. sp.), Mexico (Lachesilla concaensis n. sp.) and Panama (Lachesilla albrookensis n. sp.), and one species from Guatemala, Mexico and Panama (Lachesilla tenuidenticulata n. sp.). The location of the types is indicated in each description.

 

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