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Issue: Vol. 4668 No. 2: 10 Sept. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-09-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.2.8
Page range: 277–282
Abstract views: 81
PDF downloaded: 1

Merothrips meridionalis sp.n. (Thysanoptera: Merothripidae), a new fungivorous species from subtropical South America

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG). Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Itália Avenue, km 8, 96201-900, Rio Grande, RS, Brazil. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Bento Gonçalves Avenue 9500, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Bento Gonçalves Avenue 9500, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
USDA-APHIS PPQ NIS, Beltsville MD, USA.
Thysanoptera Brazilian fauna Neotropics species distribution Merothrips brunneus Merothrips nigricornis

Abstract

We here describe Merothrips meridionalis sp.n. based on specimens originally treated by J.D. Hood as an apterous form of M. mirus. The available data on the distribution of this new species suggest that it is widespread through Brazil, living in sympatry with M. floridensis, M. mirus and M. tympanis. However, the distribution of this new species is possibly further south than other Merothripidae species recorded from South America.

 

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