Pedrowygomyia (Diptera: Simuliidae): Discovery of a New Species After 30 yr

Jeane Marcelle Cavalcante do Nascimento; Neusa Hamada; Ana A. Huamantinco-Araujo

doi:10.1093/jme/tjaa270

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16 December 2020 Pedrowygomyia (Diptera: Simuliidae): Discovery of a New Species After 30 yr

Jeane Marcelle Cavalcante do Nascimento, Neusa Hamada, Ana A. Huamantinco-Araujo

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J. of Medical Entomology, 58(3):1093-1114 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjaa270

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Pedrowygomyia is a Neotropical genus of Simuliidae composed of four species; all were described in 1989 from high-elevation (above 3,000 m) areas in the Andean region. In this article, a new species for this genus, Pedrowygomyia hanaq n. sp., is described based on all stages of development. The new species was collected in the south-central Andes of Peru at an altitude above 4,000 m, and its known distribution is currently restricted to the type-locality. Based on the pupal stage, the new species appears to be more closely related to Pedrowygomyia punapi (Wygodzinsky & Coscarón) (Diptera: Simuliidae), a species known from Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile.

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Jeane Marcelle Cavalcante do Nascimento, Neusa Hamada, and Ana A. Huamantinco-Araujo "Pedrowygomyia (Diptera: Simuliidae): Discovery of a New Species After 30 yr," Journal of Medical Entomology 58(3), 1093-1114, (16 December 2020). https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjaa270

Received: 27 July 2020; Accepted: 21 October 2020; Published: 16 December 2020

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