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Issue: Vol. 3904 No. 3: 7 Jan. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-01-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3904.3.1
Page range: 301–333
Abstract views: 24
PDF downloaded: 2

Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical genus Pityocera Giglio-Tos, 1896 (Diptera: Tabanidae: Scionini)

Coordenação de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Tocantins, Cx. Postal 136, 77500-000, Porto Nacional, TO, Brazil.
Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Cx. Postal 2223, 69080-971, Manaus, AM, Brazil.
Coordenação de Zoologia, Entomologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Av. Perimetral 1901, Bairro Terra firme, Cx. Postal 399, 66017-970, Belém, Pará, Brazil.
Laboratório de Estudos dos Invertebrados, Universidade Estadual do Maranhão, 65604–380, Caxias, Maranhão, Brazil.
Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad de Guayaquil, Av. Raúl Gómez Lince s/n y Av. Juan Tanca Marengo, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Elaphella new species Pangoniinae Pseudelaphella

Abstract

The genus Pityocera Giglio-Tos is revised based on examination of external morphology and genitalia of type material and specimens from Brazilian and foreign institutions. Five currently valid species in three subgenera are recognized: P. (Elaphella) cervus (Wiedemann, 1828); P. (Pityocera) festai Giglio-Tos, 1896; P. (Pseudelaphella) nana (Walker, 1850); P. (Pseudelaphella) nigribasis Fairchild, 1964; P. (Pseudelaphella) patellicornis (Kröber, 1930). Five new species are described: P. (Pseudelaphella) barrosi Gorayeb & Krolow sp. nov. (Brazil: Mato Grosso do Sul); P. (Pseudelaphella) gorayebi Limeira-de-Oliveira & Krolow sp. nov. (Brazil: Maranhão, Tocantins and Bahia); P. (Pseudelaphella) pernaquila Gorayeb & Krolow sp. nov. (Brazil: Pará and Rondônia); P. (Pseudelaphella) rhinolissa Krolow & Henriques sp. nov. (Brazil: Pará, Maranhão, Tocantins, Rondônia, Mato Grosso, Goiás and Mato Grosso do Sul; Bolivia: Santa Cruz); P. (Pseudelaphella) ecuadorensis Buestán & Krolow sp. nov. (Ecuador: Manabí, Guayas, Santa Elena and Loja). We provide diagnosis, descriptions, redescriptions, distribution records, illustrations and discussion for all species, as well as a key for identification of species.