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Issue: Vol. 4751 No. 2: 17 Mar. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-03-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4751.2.4
Page range: 276–290
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A new stiletto fly genus from South America (Diptera: Therevidae: Agapophytinae)

Emeritus, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA, and University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.
California State Collection of Arthropods, California Department of Food & Agriculture, Sacramento, California, USA.
Diptera Stiletto fly Therevoid clade Asiloidea Chile

Abstract

The South American members of the stiletto fly subfamily Agapophytinae (Diptera: Therevidae) comprise three genera that occur predominantly in the western region. Here we describe a newly discovered genus, Sigalopella gen. n., from Chile containing four new species.

 

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