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Issue: Vol. 3159 No. 1: 13 Jan. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-01-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3159.1.2
Page range: 36–46
Abstract views: 32
PDF downloaded: 2

Two new species of the genus Cymatopus Kertész from the Mariana Islands (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)

Lake Biwa Museum, Oroshimo 1091, Kusatsu, Shiga, 525-0001, Japan
Pacific Biological Survey, Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice Street, Honolulu, Hawai’i 96817-204, USA.
Diptera Dolichopodidae Cymatopus Australasian Region Mariana Islands Guam Rota Saipan Pagan

Abstract

Two new species of the genus Cymatopus Kertész, 1901, C. femoralis sp. nov. and C. ventralis sp. nov., are described andillustrated from Pagan, Saipan, Rota, and Guam. This is the first record of Cymatopus from the Mariana Islands. A key to all known species of the genus is provided.

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