Poppe Jean Lucas, Schmitz Hermes José, Valente Vera Lúcia Da Silva
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Caixa Postal 15.053, 91501-970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil.; Email:
Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana (UNILA). Av. Tancredo Neves, 6731, Bloco 4. Caixa Postal 2044, 85867-970, Foz do Iguaçu, PR, Brasil.; Email:
Zootaxa. 2015 May 5;3955(3):349-70. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3955.3.4.
The genus Rhinoleucophenga Hendel comprises 26 nominal species with New World distribution. In the present study, two new species are described from samples in the Pampa and Caatinga biomes in Brazil, R. punctuloides sp. nov. and R. trivisualis sp. nov., respectively. Rhinoleucophenga punctuloides sp. nov. is a sibling species of R. punctulata Duda. Furthermore, two females of R. joaquina Schmitz, Gottschalk & Valente were found for the first time and a description is presented. A taxonomic dichotomous key with pictures is given for the Rhinoleucophenga species recorded in the Caatinga and Pampa biomes. The Neotropical open environments are areas of high diversity for Rhinoleucophenga. The description of new species and review of some older descriptions can change the area of species distribution and improve the faunistic knowledge of other localities in which previous studies have shown unidentified or misidentified Rhinoleucophenga species.
Rhinoleucophenga Hendel属包含26个具新热带区分布的命名物种。在本研究中，从巴西潘帕斯草原和卡廷加生物群落的样本中分别描述了两个新物种，即点状Rhinoleucophenga punctuloides sp. nov. 和三色Rhinoleucophenga trivisualis sp. nov.。点状Rhinoleucophenga punctuloides sp. nov. 是R. punctulata Duda的姐妹种。此外，首次发现了两只R. joaquina Schmitz、Gottschalk & Valente雌虫并给出了描述。给出了卡廷加和潘帕斯生物群落中记录的Rhinoleucophenga物种的带图片的分类检索表。新热带区的开阔环境是Rhinoleucophenga多样性较高的区域。新物种的描述以及对一些早期描述的修订可能会改变物种分布范围，并增进对其他地区动物区系的了解，此前研究表明这些地区存在未鉴定或鉴定错误的Rhinoleucophenga物种。
