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Revision of the Neotropical genus Marbenia Malloch (Diptera: Periscelididae)
Rosaly Ale-Rocha1, Geovânia Freitas2, Wayne N Mathis3
1Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av.Andr Araújo, 2936, Petrópolis, CEP 69067-375, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil;
Zootaxa
|December 30, 2014
Abstract:
The Neotropical genus Marbenia Malloch is revised and now includes 3 species: Marbenia cinerea, sp. nov., Marbenia pallida, sp. nov. and Marbenia peculiaris Malloch, 1931. The genus is herein recorded from the amazonian region of South America (Bolivia, Brazil and Ecuador), and characters of male and female terminalia are illustrated for the first time.