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Cave-dwelling species of Brasineura Silva-Neto & García Aldrete, 2015 (Psocodea: Ptiloneuridae) from southwestern Brazil: new species, wing variation, and new geographic and troglophile status records

  • 1. Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia - INPA, CPEN - Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia, Campus II, Caixa postal 478, CEP 69011-97, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
  • 2. Laboratório de Entomologia, Centro de Estudos da Biodiversidade, Universidade Federal de Roraima (UFRR), Campus Paricarana, 69310-000, Boa Vista-RR, Brazil.
  • 3. Centro de Estudos em Biologia Subterrânea, Departamento de Ecologia e Conservação, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Campus Universitário, 3037 Minas Gerais, Brazil.

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Reategui, Natália Soares, Pereira, Antoniel Francisco, Ferreira, Rodrigo Lopes, Boldrini, Rafael, Rafael, José Albertino, Neto, Alberto Moreira da Silva (2026): Cave-dwelling species of Brasineura Silva-Neto & García Aldrete, 2015 (Psocodea: Ptiloneuridae) from southwestern Brazil: new species, wing variation, and new geographic and troglophile status records. European Journal of Taxonomy 1034: 103-118, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2026.1034.3149, URL: https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/3149/14029

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