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Gigantodax brevis Wygodzinsky & Coscaron 1989

Description

brevis Wygodzinsky & Coscarón, 1989: 183.

Type locality: Colombia, Cundinamarca, near road from Usme to Páramo de Chisaca (or Sumapaz), 3300m.

Distr.: Colombia (Cundinamarca (La Calera; Bogotá; Choachí; Páramo de Chisacá, río Chisacá; Bogotá to Choachí road; Zipaquirá to Pacho road; E. of La Siberia; Santa Helena Quebrada El Oso; Quebrada Hoya Honda); Boyacá (Páramo de Tota; Páramo de Pisba; Tota, La Punta, quebrada Guachaca). Refs.: Muñoz de Hoyos, 1994: 414; Muñoz de Hoyos et al., 1994: 405; Muñoz de Hoyos, 1995: 617; Muñoz de Hoyos & Miranda-Esquivel, 1997: 302; Coscarón et al., 2008: 8 (cat.); Adler & Crosskey, 2015: 24 (inv.).

Notes

Published as part of Wolff, Marta I., Miranda-Esquivel, Daniel Rafael & Moncada-Alvarez, Ligia Ines, 2016, FAMILY SIMULIIDAE, pp. 154-177 in Zootaxa 4122 (1) on page 157, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.17, http://zenodo.org/record/264426

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References

  • Wygodzinsky, P. & Coscaron, S. (1989) A revision of the blackfly genus Gigantodax Enderlein (Simuliidae, Diptera, Insecta). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 189, 1-269.
  • Coscaron, S., Coscaron Arias, C. L. & Papavero, N. (2008) Catalogue of Neotropical Diptera. Simuliidae. Departamento de Biologia FFCLRP, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, 90 pp. [www. neotropicaldiptera. org]
  • Adler, P. H. & Crosskey, R. W. (2015) World black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae): A comprehensive revision of the taxonomic and geographical inventory [2015]. 123 pp. Available from: http://www.clemson.edu/cafls/biomia/pdfs/blackflyinventory.pdf (accessed 10 March 2015)