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Issue: Vol. 5068 No. 2: 16 Nov. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-11-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5068.2.8
Page range: 287-294
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Monotypic no more: A new species of the unusual genus Mayagueza Wheeler, 1960 from the Neotropical region (Diptera: Drosophilidae: Steganinae)

Laboratório de Entomologia, Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Av. Esperança, s/n, 74690-900, Campus Samambaia, Goiânia, GO, Brazil
Laboratório de Morfologia e Evolução de Diptera, Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900, 14040–901, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
Laboratório de Entomologia, Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Av. Esperança, s/n, 74690-900, Campus Samambaia, Goiânia, GO, Brazil.
Diptera Ephydroidea geographic distribution insects taxonomy vinegar fly

Abstract

A new species belonging to the previously monotypic steganine genus Mayagueza Wheeler, 1960 (Diptera: Drosophilidae) is described. The new species, Mayagueza lopesi sp. nov., was collected in the Brazilian Cerrado. This is the first record of this genus for South America, and the description of the new species, based on male and female adult specimens, includes photographs and detailed illustrations of male and female terminalia.

 

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