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Issue: Vol. 5604 No. 4: 17 Mar. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-03-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5604.4.2
Page range: 448-464
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Four new species of Phytobia Lioy (Diptera: Agromyzidae) from the Brazilian Amazon, with an updated key to the Neotropical species

Laboratório de Estudo da Biodiversidade de Panarthropoda—LEBIOP. Coordenação de Zoologia; Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG); Belém; Pará; Brazil.
Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA); Belém; Pará; Brazil.
Laboratório de Estudo da Biodiversidade de Panarthropoda—LEBIOP. Coordenação de Zoologia; Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG); Belém; Pará; Brazil.
Laboratório de Estudo da Biodiversidade de Panarthropoda—LEBIOP. Coordenação de Zoologia; Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG); Belém; Pará; Brazil.; Laboratório de Ecologia; Morfologia e Sistemática de Artrópodes; LAB.E.MO.SC.A. Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia; Tomé-Açu; Pará; Brazil.
Diptera Acalyptratae Neotropical region Phytomyzinae tropical forest true fly

Abstract

Four new species of Phytobia Lioy (Diptera: Agromyzidae) are described based on specimens collected in four localities from the Brazilian Amazon: P. espositae sp. nov., P. munduruku sp. nov., P. piscivora sp. nov., and P. pium sp. nov. Figures of male terminalia and photographs of type specimens are presented. In addition, P. setitibialis Sasakawa and P. pluviasilvae Boucher are newly recorded from Brazil and P. megapodema Sousa & Couri is newly recorded for the Brazilian state of Acre. In addition, an updated key to the Neotropical Phytobia species is presented.

 

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