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Issue: Vol. 5448 No. 2: 10 May 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-05-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5448.2.4
Page range: 225-247
Abstract views: 5
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Descriptions of six new Mexican species of the genus Blepharoneura (Diptera, Tephritidae) belonging to the femoralis species-group

Red de Interacciones Multitróficas; Instituto de Ecología AC; carretera antigua a Coatepec # 351; El Haya CP 91073. Xalapa; Veracruz; México
Red de Interacciones Multitróficas; Instituto de Ecología AC; carretera antigua a Coatepec # 351; El Haya CP 91073. Xalapa; Veracruz; México
Diptera Cucurbitaceae host plants fruit flies Mesoamerica new species

Abstract

The genus Blepharoneura currently contains 52 described species distributed throughout the Americas. Currently, 16 species are recorded from Mexico, of which 13 belong to the femoralis group. In this study we describe six new species of the femoralis group from several localities in Mexico: B. martyae, n. sp.; B. alleni, n. sp.; B. zapoteca n. sp.; B. xalapensis, n. sp.; B. isabelae, n. sp.; and B. dzuli, n. sp. A key for the identification of all species of the femoralis group is also provided, based on modifications of the key originally published by Norrbom and Condon (2010) to include the new species described here.

 

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