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Issue: Vol. 4039 No. 2: 5 Nov. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-11-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4039.2.8
Page range: 345–358
Abstract views: 21
PDF downloaded: 1

Two new species of predatory biting midges of the genus Alluaudomyia from Europe and the Canary Islands (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology, University of Gdańsk, Wita Stwosza 59, 80-308 Gdańsk, Poland
Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology, University of Gdańsk, Wita Stwosza 59, 80-308 Gdańsk, Poland
Laboratory of Parasitology, National Scientific Center “Institute of Experimental and Clinical Veterinary Medicine”, Puskinska 83, 61023 Kharkiv, Ukraine
Diptera Ceratopogonidae Ceratopogonini Alluaudomyia new species Canary Islands Poland Ukraine

Abstract

Alluaudomyia canariensis Szadziewski & Dominiak sp. nov. from the Canary Islands and A. wyskokensis Szadziewski & Dominiak sp. nov. from Poland and Ukraine are described and illustrated. The genus Alluaudomyia is reported from the Canary Islands for the first time. The article is supplemented with a checklist and an identification key for the species so far recorded from Europe and the Canary Islands.