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Issue: Vol. 5141 No. 3: 26 May 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-05-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5141.3.7
Page range: 295-300
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A new species of Limnophyes Eaton, 1875 (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Llanos Orientales, Colombia

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Coordenação de Biodiversidade (CoBio), Divisão de Curso em Entomologia (DiEnt), Av. André Araújo, 2936, 69067–375, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
Universidad de la Amazonia, Grupo de Investigación en Entomología Universidad de la Amazonia -GIEU-, Laboratorio de Entomología, Av. 11 5-69 Juan XXIII, Florencia, Caquetá, Colombia.
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Coordenação de Biodiversidade (CoBio), Divisão de Curso em Entomologia (DiEnt), Av. André Araújo, 2936, 69067–375, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. Universidad de la Amazonia, Grupo de Investigación en Entomología Universidad de la Amazonia -GIEU-, Laboratorio de Entomología, Av. 11 5-69 Juan XXIII, Florencia, Caquetá, Colombia.
Diptera Orthocladiinae non-biting midges aquatic insects taxonomy neotropical region

Abstract

Limnophyes Eaton is a species-rich chironomid genus with more than 90 valid species distributed world-wide, of which nine species have been reported from the Neotropical region. In the present study, Limnophyes is recorded for the first time from Colombia based on Limnophyes llanero sp. n. from the Llanos ecoregion. The species can be distinguished from its congeners by having scattered lanceolate setae in the humeral and prescutellar area, epimeron II with six setae, posterior anepisternum II with one seta, and preepisternum without setae, and by having the apex of gonostylus expanded with a well-developed crista dorsalis.

 

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