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Issue: Vol. 4067 No. 1: 20 Jan. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-01-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4067.1.4
Page range: 57–64
Abstract views: 36
PDF downloaded: 1

Two new species of Acrocephalomyia Ibáñez-Bernal & Hernández-Ortiz, 2012 from Brazil (Diptera: Ropalomeridae) and a key to known species 

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Coordenação de Biodiversidade (CBio), Av. André Araújo, 2936, Petrópolis, CEP 69067–970, Manaus, AM, Brasil Corresponding author. Fellowship CNPq; Graduate Program in Entomology;
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Coordenação de Biodiversidade (CBio), Av. André Araújo, 2936, Petrópolis, CEP 69067–970, Manaus, AM, Brasil
Diptera Acrocephalomyia pulchra sp. nov. Acrocephalomyia torulosa sp. nov. male terminalia Sciomyzoidea South America

Abstract

Two new species of Acrocephalomyia Ibáñez-Bernal & Hernández-Ortiz (Diptera, Ropalomeridae) are described. The genus currently includes three species, the type species from Costa Rica, Acrocephalomyia zumbadoi Ibáñez-Bernal & Hernández-Ortiz, and two new species from Brazil herein described, A. torulosa sp. nov., (State of Mato Grosso do Sul, Midwest) and A. pulchra sp. nov. (State of Amazonas, North). A key for the known species of Acrocephalomyia is given and characters of the male terminalia are described and discussed for the first time, with special attention to the "epiphallus”.

 

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