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Psychoda amazonensis Cordeiro & Bravo 2008
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Description
Psychoda amazonensis Cordeiro & Bravo
Psychoda amazonensis Cordeiro & Bravo, 2008: 116, figs. 1-14; Cordeiro et al., 2011: 7 (Fig. 4).
New record (determined by D. Cordeiro): BRAZIL, Amapá (no locality).
Previous records (Cordeiro & Bravo, 2008): BRAZIL, Amazonas, Silves, Saracá (type locality).
Remarks: This species is known to be viviparous, as females are captured with many first instar larvae inside the abdômen (Fig. 4). It can be easily identified by the characteristic hypovalvae (indicated by an arrow on figure 4) and short cerci of the female.
Notes
Published as part of Cordeiro, Danilo Pacheco, 2020, First record to Brazil of one genera and seven species of Psychodidae (Diptera) with further new records for 10 countries on the Neotropics, pp. 1-10 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 60 on page 4, DOI: 10.11606/1807-0205/2020.60.02, http://zenodo.org/record/3727783
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Psychodidae
- Genus
- Psychoda
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Cordeiro & Bravo
- Species
- amazonensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Psychoda amazonensis Cordeiro, 2008 sec. Cordeiro, 2020
References
- Cordeiro, D. & Bravo, F. 2008. A new species of viviparous moth fly (Diptera, Psychodidae, Psychodinae) from the Brazilian Amazon. Biota Neotropica, 8 (2): 115 - 119. DOI
- Cordeiro, D.; Bravo, F. & Carvalho, C. J. B. 2011. Taxonomy of Brazilian Psychoda Latreille, 1796 (Diptera, Psychodidae) with the description of thirteen new species. Zootaxa, 3101: 1 - 37.