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Issue: Vol. 4651 No. 3: 6 Aug. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-08-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4651.3.7
Page range: 531–554
Abstract views: 64
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Revision of the Central American and Mexican species of the Curtonotum murinum species complex (Diptera: Curtonotidae)

School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, N1G 2W1.
Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre, P.O. Box 6416, Sackville, NB, E4L 1G6.
School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, N1G 2W1.
Diptera Acalyptratae identification key new species New World Schizophora taxonomy

Abstract

The five Central American and Mexican species belonging to the Curtonotum murinum species complex are described as Curtonotum abrelatas Lindsay sp. nov., C. irksum Lindsay sp. nov., C. notatum Lindsay sp. nov., C. prolixum Lindsay sp. nov. and C. transitus Lindsay sp. nov. Photographic images, a distribution map of species and an identification key are provided.

 

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