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Issue: Vol. 4629 No. 1: 4 Jul. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-07-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4629.1.1
Page range: 1–25
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New Pieza Evenhuis (Diptera, Mythicomyiidae, Mythicomyiinae) from Northeast Brazil

Universidade Estadual do Maranhão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade, Ambiente e Saúde, 65604–380, Caxias, Maranhão, Brazil.
Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Avenida Nazaré, 481, Ipiranga, 04263-000, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
J. Linsley Gressitt Center for Research in Entomology, Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96817-2704, USA.
Universidade Estadual do Maranhão, Laboratório de Estudos dos Invertebrados, 65604–380, Caxias, Maranhão, Brazil.
Diptera biodiversity micro bee flies Neotropical taxonomy

Abstract

The genus Pieza Evenhuis, 2002 has 11 known species but only one recorded from Brazil. In this paper, eight new species, P. ankh sp. nov., P. aurislepus sp. nov., P. bittencourti sp. nov., P. parakake sp. nov., P. parnasecon sp. nov., P. rafaeli sp. nov., P. silvanae sp. nov. and P. yeatesi sp. nov., are described from Maranhão and Piauí in the Northeast of Brazil. A key to genera of Mythicomyiinae of the world (modified from Rafael and Limeira-de-Oliveira 2014) and the Brazilian species of Pieza is provided. In addition, a distribution map for the Brazilian species of Pieza is presented.

 

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