Abstract

A new species of Downeshelea Wirth & Grogan, 1988, D. oliveirai, is described and illustrated based on male and female characteristics. The specimens were collected in Rondônia and Pará states, northern Brazil.

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  • Downeshela oliveirai, uma nova espécie neotropical de ceratopogonídeo predador para a região norte do Brasil

  • WIRTH & GROGAN (1988) in their revision of the predaceous midges of the world placed the species of the Monohelea multilineata group in a new genus, Downeshelea, which includes 30 neotropical species

  • Six of them were originally described from Brazil and only two, D. cebacoi (Lane & Wirth, 1964) and D. guianae (Wirth, 1953), are reported from northern Brazil

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Downeshela oliveirai, uma nova espécie neotropical de ceratopogonídeo predador para a região norte do Brasil. Downeshelea, Região neotropical, Rondônia, Pará, espécie nova. Material from light trap collections from Rondônia and Pará states included an undescribed species of Downeshelea that we describe .

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