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Issue: Vol. 993 No. 1: 25 May. 2005
Type: Articles
Published: 2005-05-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.993.1.1
Page range: 1–8
Abstract views: 38
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Description of an unusual new Costa Rican species of Cerodontha (Dizygomyza) with additional notes on Neotropical species of Dizygomyza (Diptera: Agromyzidae)

Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, Macdonald Campus, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada H9X 3V9
Diptera Cerodontha Dizygomyza Butomomyza Costa Rica Agromyzidae Neotropical

Abstract

Cerodontha (Dizygomyza) nigrihalterata sp. nov. is described from Costa Rica. This species is unusual in having black halteres, the presence of only one upper orbital seta and infuscated wings. Two additional species of Dizygomyza are newly recorded from the Neotropical region: Cerodontha (Dizygomyza) luctuosa (Meigen) and Cerodontha (Dizygomyza) scirpioides Zlobin. Two Neotropical species of Cerodontha previously assigned to Dizygomyza are reassigned to subgenus Butomomyza: Cerodontha (Butomomyza) puertoricencis Spencer new comb. and Cerodontha (Butomomyza) orcina Spencer new comb.

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