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Issue: Vol. 3884 No. 4: 17 Nov. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-11-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3884.4.3
Page range: 333–346
Abstract views: 32
PDF downloaded: 2

Taxonomic revision of Pseudorhopalia Wilcox & Papavero, 1971 (Insecta, Diptera, Mydidae, Rhopaliinae), with description of a new species from the Brazilian Amazon 

Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo. Av. Nazaré, 481, Ipiranga, 04263–000, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, Trav. 14, n.101, 05508-900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo. Av. Nazaré, 481, Ipiranga, 04263–000, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Asiloidea Mydidae campina caatinga biodiversity

Abstract

The previously monotypic genus Pseudorhopalia Wilcox & Papavero, 1971 is here revised, with description of a new species, Pseudorhopalia manauara, sp. n. The type-species, P. mirandai (d’Andretta & Carrera, 1951), is only found in northeastern Brazil, in the semiarid Caatinga biome. On the other hand, the new species is found in the humid Brazilian Amazonia, within dense ombrophilous forest and campina (scleromorphic scrub vegetation associated with white sand).