Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 5471 No. 1: 17 Jun. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-06-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5471.1.4
Page range: 67-82
Abstract views: 67
PDF downloaded: 0

Description of four new species of the Neotropical Micropotamia Carvalho (Diptera, Muscidae)

The Graduate Program in Entomology; Universidade Federal do Paraná; Curitiba; Brazil
Department of Zoology; Universidade Federal do Paraná; Curitiba; Brazil
Diptera Brazil Costa Rica Neotropical region taxonomy

Abstract

Micropotamia Carvalho (Diptera, Muscidae) is a Neotropical genus with four species distributed from Mexico to southern Brazil. Here, we describe four new species in the genus: Micropotamia stellaria sp. nov. from Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre, Brazil, Micropotamia ananas sp. nov. from Borba, Amazonas, Brazil, Micropotamia ditissima sp. nov. from Rio Nhamundá, Amazonas, Brazil, and Micropotamia fortuna sp. nov. from Est. La Casona, Prov. Puntarenas, Costa Rica. An identification key for all species is provided.

 

References

  1. Albuquerque, D. de O. & Lopes, S.M.R. (1982) Sobre duas espécies novas de Muscidae da Amazônia pertencentes às subfamílias Muscinae e Cyrtoneurininae. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Nova série, Zoologia, 117, 1–8.
  2. Almeida, L.M., Ribeiro-Costa, C.S. & Marinoni, L. (1998) Montagem e Preservação. In: Manual de coleta, conservação, montagem e identificação de insetos. Ed. Holos, Ribeirão Preto, pp. 43–60.
  3. Cumming, J.M. & Wood, D.M. (2017) Adult morphology and terminology. In: Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. & Sinclair, B.J. (Eds.), Manual of Afrotropical Diptera. Vol. 1. Suricata 4. SANBI Graphics & Editing, Pretoria, pp. 89–133.
  4. de Carvalho, C.J.B. (1993) Micropotamia, Gen. n. of Neotropical Muscidae (Diptera, Azeliinae), with comments on allied Azeliini Genera. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, 9, 241–246. [1992] https://doi.org/10.1590/S0101-81751992000200009
  5. Development Core Team. (2010) A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna. ISBN 3-900051-07-0. Available from: http://www.R-project.org/ (accessed 22 May 2024)
  6. Haseyama, K.L.F., Wiegmann, B.M., Almeida, E.A.B. & de Carvalho, C.J.B. (2015) Say goodbye to tribes in the new house fly classification: A new molecular phylogenetic analysis and an updated biogeographical narrative for the Muscidae (Diptera). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 89, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2015.04.006
  7. Löwenberg-Neto, P. & de Carvalho, C.J.B. (2013) Muscidae (Insecta: Diptera) of Latin America and the Caribbean: geographic distribution and check-list by country. Zootaxa, 3650 (1), 1–147. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3650.1.1
  8. Pont, A.C. (1972) Family Muscidae. In: A Catalogue of the Diptera of the Americas South of the United States. Vol. 97. Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, pp. 1–111.
  9. QGIS Development Team (2009) QGIS Geographic Information System. Open Source Geospatial Foundation Project. Available from: http://www.qgis.org/ (accessed 22 May 2024)
  10. Savage, J. & Wheeler, T.A. (2004) Phylogeny of the Azeliini (Diptera: Muscidae). Studia dipterologica, 11 (1), 259–299. [ISSN 0945-3954]
  11. Walczak, K., Pape, T., Wallman, J.F, Szpila, K. & Grzywacz, A. (2024) To see the unseen: notes on the larval morphology and systematic position of Achanthiptera Rondani (Diptera: Muscidae). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny, 82, 305–322. https://doi.org/10.3897/asp.82.e116703