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Issue: Vol. 4021 No. 4: 29 Sept. 2015
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2015-09-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4021.4.8
Page range: 585–590
Abstract views: 30
PDF downloaded: 3

New species and records of Pseudacteon Coquillett, 1907 (Diptera, Phoridae), parasitoids of the fire ant Solenopsis geminata group (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, rua do Matão, travessa 14, n. 101,05508-900, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Laboratório de Mirmecologia, CEPEC–CEPLAC & Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Rod. Jorge Amado, Ilhéus–BA.
Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana – UEFS; Avenida Transnordestina, S/N; 44.036–900, Bairro Novo Horizonte, Feira de Santana, BA, Brazil.
Hymenoptera S. saevissima Northeastern Brazil Neotropical Region

Abstract

The genus Pseudacteon Coquillett (Diptera, Phoridae) has a worldwide distribution and comprises parasitic myrmecophilous species that decapitate host ants. Seventy one species are known in the genus, 41 of them occur in the Neotropical Region and are 25 from Brazil. In northeastern Brazil, there are only records for two species, Pseudacteon dentiger Borgmeier and Pseudacteon antiguensis Malloch. In this paper, two new species of the genus are described from female specimens, Pseudacteon pesqueroi new spec. and Pseudacteon plowesi new spec., and also, new records of three Pseudacteon species for the Brazilian Northeast are given.