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Leptogaster Meigen 1803

  • 1. Estado de Educação do Governo do Amazonas, Manaus, AM (Brazil) Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Coordenação de Biodiversidade, CEP 69.067 - 375, Manaus, AM (Brazil) rodrigo 08 vieira @ gmail. com
  • 2. Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Coordenação de Biodiversidade, CEP 69.067 - 375, Manaus, AM (Brazil)
  • 3. Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Herman Teirlinckgebouw, Havenlaan 88 bus 73, B- 1000 Brussels (Belgium) and Entomology Unit, Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Vautierstraat 29, B- 1000 Brussels (Belgium)
  • 4. Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC (United States)

Description

Genus Leptogaster Meigen, 1803

REMARK

The genus was listed from French Guiana by Tomasovic (2002a). However, no information concerning the species name or collecting site was provided (specimens not examined). In the Mitaraka survey, five different morphospecies of Leptogaster were collected (material examined: Leptogaster sp. 1: 1 ♀, Mitaraka/195, MNHN; 1 ♀, Mitaraka/230, INPA. Leptogaster sp. 2: 2 ♂, 1♀, Mitaraka/230, INPA; 1♂, 1 ♀, MNHN. Leptogaster sp. 3: 1 ♀, Mitaraka/230, INPA. Leptogaster sp. 4: 1 ♀, Mitaraka/218, INPA. Leptogaster sp. 5: 1 ♀, Mitaraka/195, INPA).

Notes

Published as part of Vieira, Rodrigo, Camargo, Alexssandro, Pollet, Marc & Dikow, Torsten, 2019, Updated checklist of French Guianan Asilidae (Diptera) with a focus on the Mitaraka expedition, pp. 443-464 in Zoosystema 41 (23) on page 457, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a23, http://zenodo.org/record/4436858

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Asilidae
Genus
Leptogaster
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Meigen
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Leptogaster Meigen, 1803 sec. Vieira, Camargo, Pollet & Dikow, 2019

References

  • TOMASOVIC G. 2002 a. - Resume sur la connaissance des Asilidae (Diptera Brachycera) de Guyane francaise et description de trois especes nouvelles. Bulletin de la Societe royale belge d'Entomologie 138: 85 - 90.