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Issue: Vol. 3872 No. 4: 10 Oct. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-10-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3872.4.3
Page range: 365–375
Abstract views: 23
PDF downloaded: 1

Revision of the Neotropical genus Marbenia Malloch (Diptera: Periscelididae)

Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av.Andr Araújo, 2936, Petrópolis, CEP 69067-375, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av.Andr Araújo, 2936, Petrópolis, CEP 69067-375, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil .Fellowship CNPq; Graduate Program in Entomology.
Department of Entomology, NHB 169, PO Box 37012; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012, USA.
Periscelidinae systematics Neotropical Region Amazonian Region

Abstract

The Neotropical genus Marbenia Malloch is revised and now includes 3 species: Marbenia cinerea, sp. nov., Marbenia pallida, sp. nov. and Marbenia peculiaris Malloch, 1931. The genus is herein recorded from the amazonian region of South America (Bolivia, Brazil and Ecuador), and characters of male and female terminalia are illustrated for the first time.