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Issue: Vol. 509 No. 1: 7 May. 2004
Type: Article
Published: 2004-05-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.509.1.1
Page range: 1–8
Abstract views: 46
PDF downloaded: 4

A new species of Metelasmus (Diptera: Streblidae: Streblinae) from southern South America

Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, 19020 Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, CEP 81.531-980
Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-3131 USA and Department of Zoology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL 60605 USA
Diptera bat fly ectoparasite Metelasmus new species Sturnira lilium

Abstract

A new species of Metelasmus Coquillett, 1907 (Diptera: Streblidae: Streblinae) from Sturnira lilium (E. Geoffroy, 1810) (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae: Stenodermatinae) is described. Drawings of the frontoclypeus, epiproct, gonopods, postgena, postvertex and occiputs, tergite VII, and wing are presented. Host relationships of Metelasmus are discussed.

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