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Issue: Vol. 3255 No. 1: 3 Apr. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-04-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3255.1.2
Page range: 37–51
Abstract views: 36
PDF downloaded: 1

The genus Ctenosciara Tuomikoski (Diptera, Sciaridae) in New Caledonia, with the description of eight new species

Zoological Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 17, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
Swedish Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 50007, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden
Puddemin 6, D-18574 Poseritz, Germany
Diptera Sciaridae Ctenosciara key new species Australasian region New Caledonia

Abstract

The genus Ctenosciara Tuomikoski, 1960, includes the following species in New Caledonia, all newly described: Cteno-sciara cracens sp. n., C. crinita sp. n., C. depilis sp. n., C. depressa sp. n., C. exilis sp. n., C. inflata sp. n., C. lobigerasp. n. and C. obesa sp. n. Some of the species show for the genus previously unknown characters. A key to the New Caledonian species of Ctenosciara is provided.

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