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Type: Article
Published: 2014-03-13
Page range: 48–60
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The genus Triozocera Pierce, 1909 (Insecta: Strepsiptera: Corioxenidae) in South America

Integrated Plant Protection Center and Department of Horticulture, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 98105 USA. Mailing address: 5556 33rd. Ave. NE, Seattle, WA, 98105 USA.
Department of Biological Science and Texas Research institute for Environmental Studies, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX 77341-2448 USA.
Brazil Strepsiptera host specificity intraspecific size variability

Abstract

A new species of Triozocera from the Brazilian Amazon basin was found in a sample of male Strepsiptera from the collection of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia (INPA—Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil). Triozocera buehrheimi sp.n. is described and the status of T. paulistana Kogan, 1958, the first strepsipteran described from Brazil, is reviewed, with additional diagnostic characters used to reinstate the species based on comparative analyses to the other three species occurring in southern US, Mexico, and Central America: T. mexicana Pierce, 1909, T. tecpanensis Brailowsky and Márquez, 1974, and T. vernalis Kifune and Brailowsky, 1987. A key to those species is included.