Azana atlantica Oliveira & Balbi, n.sp.
Description
Azana atlantica Oliveira & Balbi, n.sp.
Azana atlantica Oliveira & Balbi (in Amorim et al., 2008), nomen nudum.
Diagnosis. Two ocelli, mouthparts reduced, maxillary palpus 1-segmented. Wing fumose brown, slightly darker across the mid of the wing and close to the apex; first section of Rs not sclerotized; M4 entirely absent; A1 scarcely visible. Gonostyle triangular, with a row of spines along the entire inner margin; parameres absent.
Female. Unknown.
Material examined. Holotype, ♂, BRAZIL, State of São Paulo, Salesópolis, Estação Biológica de Boracéia, Trilha dos Pilões, 23º 39’ 05.8” S, 45º 53’ 44.6” W, Malaise Trap (“trilha Ponto 4”), 30.iii-02.iv.2001, STP Amarante & eq. cols. Paratypes: 1 ♂, same data as holotype; 1 ♂, same data as holotype, except 23º 39’ 06.3” S, 45º 53’ 48.9” W; 1 ♂, idem, except 23º 39’ 05.1” S, 45º 53’ 51.8” W, 26.ii.2005.
Depository. The holotype and the paratypes are deposited in the Diptera collection of the Museu de Zoologia (MZSP), São Paulo, Brazil.
Other
Published as part of Amorim, Dalton De Souza, Oliveira, Sarah Siqueira & Balbi, Maria Isabel P. A., 2008, First Neotropical species of genus Azana (Diptera: Mycetophilidae: Sciophilinae), pp. 67-68 in Zootaxa 1937 on page 67, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.184972Files
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- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.184972 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Mycetophilidae
- Genus
- Azana
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Oliveira & Balbi
- Species
- atlantica
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Azana atlantica Oliveira & Balbi, 2008
References
- Amorim, D. S., Oliveira, S. S. & Balbi, M. I. P. A. (2008). Azana atlantica, n. sp., with reduced mouthparts and two ocelli: first record of Azana for the Neotropical region (Diptera: Mycetophilidae: Sciophilinae). Zootaxa 1789, 57 - 65.