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Patricia DO Rosario Reis1, Leonardo H Gil-Azevedo2, Ruth L Ferreira-Keppler3
1Programa de Pós-Graduação Zoologia, Departamento de Entomologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista s/n, 20940-040, São Cristóvão, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. prreis@uea.edu.br.
Abstract:
Tanytarsus is a highly diverse genus of Chironomidae (Diptera), distributed worldwide. In the Neotropics, 84 species are known, but only five have been recorded from Central America to date. In the present article, two new species of the Tanytarsus ortoni species group are described and illustrated based on male specimens collected from Costa Rica, T. braini sp. nov. and T. costarica sp. nov.
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