Neto Jaime DE Liege Gama, Passos Mahedy Araujo Bastos
Universidade Estadual do Maranhão-UEMA; Centro de Estudos Superiores de Lago da Pedra (CESLAP).
Centro Estadual de Educação Profissional Prof. Antônio de Pinho Lima (CEEP/RR).
Zootaxa. 2024 Nov 7;5537(1):133-140. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5537.1.7.
Two new species of Metrichia from Roraima State, Brazil, are described and illustrated, representing additional records of Metrichia from the Brazilian Amazon biome. The male of Metrichia iracema sp nov. is characterized by inferior appendages each elongate, with an acute apical projection and a deep C-shaped notch, tergum X apex slightly incised, and dorsal hook with a longer dorsal branch extending anterad. Metrichia camposnovos sp nov. is characterized by inferior appendages each subtrapezoidal and with acute apical corners, and phallus tubular, elongate, and slender, with a median process and with two curved subapical spines arising at the same level, one curved to the left, another curved to the right.
描述并说明了来自巴西罗赖马州的两个新的梅氏摇蚊属物种,这代表了巴西亚马逊生物群落中梅氏摇蚊属的更多记录。新物种伊拉塞马梅氏摇蚊的雄性特征为:每个肛附器细长,顶端有尖锐的突起和深的C形切口,第X背板顶端略有切口,背钩的背分支较长,向前延伸。新物种坎波斯诺沃斯梅氏摇蚊的特征为:每个肛附器呈近梯形,顶端角尖锐,阳茎呈管状,细长,有一个中突,在同一水平有两个弯曲的亚顶端刺,一个向左弯曲,另一个向右弯曲。