Title
A new species of Rheotanytarsus Thienemann & Bause (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Peruvian Andes, with updated key to South American species
Date Issued
13 January 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Magnolia Press
Abstract
Rheotanytarsus is a speciose genus, currently composed by more than 100 nominal species distributed worldwide, 19 are known from the Neotropical region, four from South America and only one is registered for Peru. In the present study, a new species is described and illustrated based on males collected in the Peruvian Andes. In addition, the key to the South American species is updated and a distribution map of them is provided. Rheotanytarsus amaru sp. n. is easily distinguished from the congeneric species by the dark general coloration and the hypopygial morphology.
Start page
195
End page
200
Volume
4722
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Biología marina, Biología de agua dulce, Limnología
Zoología, Ornitología, Entomología, ciencias biológicas del comportamiento
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85077981658
PubMed ID
Source
Zootaxa
ISSN of the container
11755326
Sponsor(s)
We are grateful to the Peruvian Ministerio de Agricultura y Riego which provided the collection permit (directorial resolution no. 0287–2014-MINAGRI-DGFFS/ DGEFFS; code n. 71047–2014) and export permit n. 1064-SER-FOR. Financial support was provided to N.H. by CNPq (process no. 307849/ 2014–7). CAPES/ Proequipamento provided photograph equipment. Maria Bobadilla, Sara Margarita Clemente, Ruth L. Ferreira-Keppler and Jeane M.C. Nascimento helped in the field work.
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