Abstract
The adult male of Nancyana curva is described and illustrated for the first time, based on four specimens from the states of Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais. Male diagnostic characters inelude the presence of a pair of inner projections on the dorsal lobe of the pygofer, and a dorsal pair of short subapical processes on the aedeagus. The female color pattem is similar to that of male, with dark brown bands on torax not so elear.
Highlights
The genus Nancyana Freytag is com prised of eleven known species (two of them previously described in Rhogosana Osboro, 1938) and is recorded from Venezuela, Argentina and Guyana
The genus Nancyana Freytag is com prised of eleven known species and is recorded from Venezuela, Argentina and Guyana
The specimens used in this study were collected in the states of Minas Gerais (MG) and Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brazil and are deposited in the Museu Regional de Entomologia, Universidade Federal de Vic;osa, MG (UFV), and in the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Summary
The genus Nancyana Freytag is com prised of eleven known species (two of them previously described in Rhogosana Osboro, 1938) and is recorded from Venezuela, Argentina and Guyana. One species has been described from both sexes; in four of them only the male is known, and the descrip tions of the remaining five species are based on females (Freytag 1990).
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