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Issue: Vol. 5689 No. 1: 2 Sept. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-09-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5689.1.2
Page range: 58-80
Abstract views: 123
PDF downloaded: 4

Six new species and records of frog-biting midges (Diptera: Corethrellidae) from Cuba and Colombia

Faculty of Biology; Biocenter; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich); Munich; Germany.
Department of Ecology and Zoology; Graduate program in Ecology; Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina; Santa Catarina; Brazil.
Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Conservación; Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos; Cuernavaca; Morelos; Mexico.
Grupo de Entomología; Universidad de Antioquia; Medellín; Colombia.
Department of Biological Sciences; Purdue University; 915 Mitch Daniels Boulevard; West Lafayette; IN; 47907; USA.; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Apartado 0843-03092; Balboa; Ancón; República de Panamá.
Department of Ecology and Zoology; Graduate program in Ecology; Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina; Santa Catarina; Brazil.
Diptera Taxonomy Neotropical Biodiversity Corethrella

Abstract

A survey of Corethrellidae from two countries in the Neotropical Region, Cuba and Colombia, was performed. Four new species are described from Cuba (Corethrella parallela Amaral & Pinho sp. nov., Corethrella doryphallica Amaral & Pinho sp. nov., Corethrella trivittata Amaral & Pinho sp. nov., and Corethrella coronata Amaral & Pinho sp. nov.), and two from Colombia (Corethrella compacta Amaral & Pinho sp. nov. and Corethrella obtusa Amaral & Pinho sp. nov.). New records from these countries also expand the known distribution of eight additional species.

 

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How to Cite

Amaral, A.P., Campos, L.L.F.D., González, O.C.B., Wolff, M., Bernal, X.E. & Pinho, L.C. (2025) Six new species and records of frog-biting midges (Diptera: Corethrellidae) from Cuba and Colombia. Zootaxa, 5689 (1), 58–80. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5689.1.2