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Issue: Vol. 3389 No. 1: 16 Jul. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-07-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3389.1.3
Page range: 25–33
Abstract views: 29
PDF downloaded: 13

Newly discovered males and new records of the uncommon Neotropical genera Eutabanus Kröber and Myiotabanus Lutz (Diptera: Tabanidae)

Coordenação de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Tocantins – UFT, Cx. Postal 136, 77500-000, Porto Nacional, TO, Brazil
Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
Coordenação de Pesquisas em Entomologia – Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Cx. Postal 478, 69.011-970, Manaus, AM, Brazil
Diptera horse flies Diachlorini taxonomy terminalia Neotropical region Amazon region

Abstract

The males of Eutabanus pictus Kröber, Myiotabanus amazonicus Rafael & Ferreira, collected in Amazonas, Brazil, andMyiotabanus muscoideus (Hine), collected in Chiapas, Mexico, a new country record, are described. Species of both genera aresmall horse flies with sarcophagid-like coloration. Diagnoses, illustrations and terminalia characters are presented for males, and illustrations and comments for females. The first key to males for Eutabanus and Myiotabanus is presented.

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