A new species of Sycorax Curtis, 1839 from Atlantic Forest in southeastern Brazil
A new species of Sycorax Curtis, 1839 (Diptera, Psychodidae) from the Atlantic Forest in southeastern Brazil. Sycorax bravoi Santos, Ferreira & Falqueto sp. nov. is described and illustrated based on samples collected with a Möricke trap installed on the ground at the Biological Station of Santa Lúcia, municipality of Santa Teresa, in the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo. Males have a paramere with a spiniform prolongation on the distal surface and an aedeagus with a long posterior membranous dorsal prolongation. Females have a racket-shaped genital furca and tubular spermatheca, tapered on the apical third. This finding raises the number of Sycorax species known from Brazil to seven.
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| Format: | Digital revista |
| Language: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira De Entomologia
2011
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| Online Access: | http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0085-56262011000400003 |
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