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Issue: Vol. 2219 No. 1: 3 Sep. 2009
Type: Articles
Published: 2009-09-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2219.1.2
Page range: 18–30
Abstract views: 28
PDF downloaded: 1

Review of the Neotropical species of Nervijuncta Marshall, 1896 (Diptera, Ditomyiidae)

Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Departamento de Biologia, Setor de Ecologia e Evolução, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900, 14040-901, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil. Partially developed under FAPESP grant 03/10274-9
Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Departamento de Biologia, Setor de Ecologia e Evolução, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900, 14040-901, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil. Partially developed under FAPESP grant 03/10274-9
Diptera Neotropics taxonomy biodiversity

Abstract

Both known Neotropical species of Nervijuncta – N. conjuncta (Freeman) and N. laffooni Lane – are redescribed and the male terminalia illustrated in detail. Specimens of N. laffooni, previously known only from the type-locality (São Paulo, Brazil), are reported from Nova Teutônia, and Urubici, both in the State of Santa Catarina, Brazil. The females of both Neotropical species of the genus are described in detail and the genitalia illustrated for the first time. These redescriptions provide further information on the position of these two species within the genus.

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