Eight new species of Dexosarcophaga Townsend, 1917 (Diptera, Sarcophagidae) from the Neotropical Region
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Eight new Neotropical species of Dexosarcophaga Townsend, 1917 are described, five from Brazil, Dexosarcophaga phoenix sp. nov., Dexosarcophaga jandainae sp. nov., Dexosarcophaga patiuorum sp. nov., Dexosarcophaga petra sp. nov., and Dexosarcophaga sphaera sp. nov., one from Costa Rica, Dexosarcophaga limon sp. nov., one from Ecuador, Dexosarcophaga napo sp. nov., and one from Colombia, Dexosarcophaga pallida sp. nov. Male and female morphology is documented with photographs and illustrations, including details of the male terminalia for all new species and female terminalia of Dexosarcophaga phoenix sp. nov. and Dexosarcophaga sphaera sp. nov. With the addition of these new species, 58 species of Dexosarcophaga are now known, with records from the American continent spanning from the southern United States to northern Argentina.
| Originalsprog | Engelsk |
|---|---|
| Tidsskrift | European Journal of Taxonomy |
| Vol/bind | 828 |
| Sider (fra-til) | 109-137 |
| Antal sider | 29 |
| ISSN | 2118-9773 |
| DOI | |
| Status | Udgivet - 2022 |
Bibliografisk note
Funding Information:
We especially thank Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – CAPES for providing a Master of Science fellowship for JRS (Proc. 88882.183237/2018-01). We are grateful to CNPq (Proc. 563256/ 2010-9) and the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo – FAPESP (Proc. 2010/52314-0) for providing financial support to the project Sisbiota–Diptera “Rede temática para estudos de diversidade, sistemática e limites distribucionais de Diptera nos estados do Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul e Rondônia”, from which part of the studied material was obtained. We are also grateful to the former Diptera curators at Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Costa Rica (INBio) and the Swedish Museum of Natural History (NHRS) for loans of part of the material examined for this study, and we deeply regret that all this material was eventually lost. We are also grateful to Dr Daniel Whitmore, Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart, Germany, and an anonymous reviewer, who provided useful comments.
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