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Issue: Vol. 1754 No. 1: 21 Apr. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-04-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1754.1.2
Page range: 41–51
Abstract views: 43
PDF downloaded: 1

Revision of the Costa Rican species of Elachiptera (Diptera: Chloropidae)

Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, Macdonald Campus, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, H9X 3V9 Canada
Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, Macdonald Campus, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, H9X 3V9 Canada
Diptera Chloropidae Elachiptera systematics Neotropical

Abstract

The Costa Rican species of the genus Elachiptera are revised. There are seven described species in the region: Elachiptera attenuata (Adams); E. coniotrigona Duda; E. fucosa sp. n. (type locality: Costa Rica: Santo Domingo de Heredia); E. melinifrons sp. n. (type locality: Costa Rica: San José); E. queposana sp. n. (type locality: Costa Rica: Quepos); E. rubida Becker and E. sacculicornis (Enderlein). An additional species (Elachiptera sp. A) is known from a single female specimen and is not formally described. Only one of these species (E. attenuata) had previously been recorded from Costa Rica.

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