First record of the genus Colosmittia Andersen & Saether (Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) from the neotropical region
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Published on: February 17, 2010
Humberto F Mendes1, Trond Andersen
1Dept. of Natural History, Bergen Museum, Univ. of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. humberto.mendes@bm.uib.no
Neotropical Entomology
|November 28, 2009
Abstract:
Colosmittia brasileira sp. n. from São Paulo state, Brazil, is described and illustrated based on a male imago. The genus Colosmittia Andersen & Saether was described based on a single species, C. clavata Andersen & Saether, from the West Usambara Mountains, Tanzania, East Africa. The discovery of the new species shows that Colosmittia has an Afro-Brazilian distribution pattern.

