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Taxonomic notes of Hemixantha (Diptera: Richardiidae) with description of a new...

Richardiidae is represented by ca. 180 species in 33 genera. A new species of Hemixantha, now totaling 20 species, is described from the Amazon Region, state of Pará, Brazil, and from Teoponte, Bolivia. Hemixantha maculosa sp. nov., H. picta Hennig, 1937 and H. pulchripennis Hendel, 1911 are richardiids known to have an extensively banded wing pattern. Hemixantha maculosa sp. nov. represents the first record of...

Flutuaçãp populacional de Willistonyella Mik e Ropalomera Wiedemann (Diptera, R...

Revisão do gênero Kroeberia Lindner, 1930 (Diptera: Ropalomeridae) da Região Ne...

Redescription of Oropezella abdominalis Collin from Chile with description of t...

Oropezella abdominalis Collin, 1933 (Diptera, Hybotidae) is redescribed and the male is described for the first time. An identification key to the Neotropical genera of Ocydromiinae is also provided.

First records of periscelididae (Diptera, opomyzoidea) from French Guiana

Periscelididae (Diptera, Opomyzoidea) are recorded for the first time from French Guiana, with 5 species Marbenia peculiaris Malloch, 1931, Neoscutops barcelosiensis Ale-Rocha & Freitas, 2011, Neoscutops flavoscutellatus Ale-Rocha & Freitas, 2011, Neoscutops peruvianus Hennig, 1969, and Planinasus nigritarsus Mathis & Rung, 2012 found. © Ale-Rocha and Soares.

Revisão do gênero neotropical Apophorhynchus Williston (Diptera, Ropalomeridae)

Apoxyria hirtuosa (wiedemann, 1821) comb. n., lectotype designation, redescript...

The type specimens of Neodiogmites hirtuosus (Wiedemann, 1821), two males and one female, deposited at the Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität (ZMHB), Berlin were examined. The specimens show the diagnostic characters of Apoxyria Schiner, 1866: face strongly pronounced, swollen and curved hind tibia, and terminalia with epandrium large and hypandrium short and obtuse. A new combination is suggested, ...

New species of Tomosvaryella Aczél (Diptera, Pipunculidae) from Argentina and k...

Two new species of Tomosvaryella are described from Argentina, Tomosvaryella lobata sp. nov. and Tomosvaryella platypoda sp. nov.; an identification key is presented for the South American species of Tomosvaryella and new records of Tomosvaryella species to Brazil and Argentina are provided.

Revisao das Especies Neotropicais de Empididae (Diptera) Descritas Por Mario Be...

Description of Simulium damascenoi (Diptera: Simuliidae) Male and the Black-Fly...

Five species are included in the Simulium siolii group, which is placed in the subgenus Psaroniocompsa (Diptera: Simuliidae). Of these five species, only two (Simulium siolii Py-Daniel and Simulium tergospinosum Hamada) have been described in all their life stages, except eggs. Knowledge of the taxonomic characters of all life stages of a species is important in order to clarify interspecific and higher-level t...