Da Silva Fabio Laurindo, Wiedenbrug Sofia
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.; Email:
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Zootaxa. 2015 Apr 15;3947(2):275-81. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3947.2.9.
A new genus, Amazonimyia, is established for a species of the tribe Pentaneurini (Diptera, Chironomidae, Tanypodinae) from the Amazon Rainforest in northern Brazil. Generic diagnoses for adult male and pupa are provided together with descriptions of a new species, Amazonimyia gigantea.