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Felippe-Bauer &amp; Spinelli
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,
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<paragraph id="176236EDFFF95247FF4E25AA954BFBB8" blockId="1.[151,787,679,739]" box="[151,256,714,739]" pageId="1" pageNumber="391">Figs. 17</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="25A9EAFFFFF95247FF4E246D9541FA7D" bold="true" box="[151,266,781,806]" pageId="1" pageNumber="391">Diagnosis</emphasis>
. The only Neotropical species of
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<emphasis id="25A9EAFFFFF95247FD53246D9743FA7E" box="[650,776,781,805]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="391">Parabezzia</emphasis>
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in which the females lack the costal section III, scutellum with 46 setae, fore and hind tarsomeres 5 with ventral swelling, tarsal claws unequal, the longest talon nearly
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longer than shorter talon, spermathecae very unequal, the larger ovoid and the smaller round. Male Unknown.
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<emphasis id="25A9EAFFFFF95247FF1E24199555FAC9" bold="true" box="[199,286,889,914]" pageId="1" pageNumber="391">Female</emphasis>
. Head brown. Eyes separated by V-shaped space equal to diameter of 2.43.0 (n= 6) ommatidia at level of interocular setae (
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). Antennal flagellum pale brown (
<figureCitation id="8FE62A68FFF95247FC5B24FD9783FAED" box="[898,968,925,950]" captionStart="FIGURES 2 7" captionStartId="3.[151,264,1491,1514]" captionTargetBox="[256,1333,231,1448]" captionTargetId="figure@3.[229,1358,193,1470]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURES 2 7. Parabezzia unica sp. nov., female. 2. Antenna; 3. Eyes separation, anterior view; 4. Palpus, lateral view; 5. Spermathecae; 6. Legs (left to right) of fore, mid- and hindlegs, lateral view; 7. Tarsi (left to right) fore, mid-and hind tarsomeres, lateral view." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/233824/files/figure.png" pageId="1" pageNumber="391">Fig. 2</figureCitation>
); pedicel brown; antennal ratio 1.001.14 (1.10, n=6). Clypeus with 1013 slender setae. Palpus pale brown (
<figureCitation id="8FE62A68FFF95247FC4724A197ADFA81" box="[926,998,961,986]" captionStart="FIGURES 2 7" captionStartId="3.[151,264,1491,1514]" captionTargetBox="[256,1333,231,1448]" captionTargetId="figure@3.[229,1358,193,1470]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURES 2 7. Parabezzia unica sp. nov., female. 2. Antenna; 3. Eyes separation, anterior view; 4. Palpus, lateral view; 5. Spermathecae; 6. Legs (left to right) of fore, mid- and hindlegs, lateral view; 7. Tarsi (left to right) fore, mid-and hind tarsomeres, lateral view." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/233824/files/figure.png" pageId="1" pageNumber="391">Fig. 4</figureCitation>
); segment 3 with few capitate hyaline sensilla on inner mesal surface; palpal ratio 3.24.0 (3.7, n=6). Mandible with 8 teeth.
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Thorax dark brown. Scutum with two (rarely one) presutural, 45 posterolateral setae; scutellum with 46 (4 stout, 12 delicate) setae. Wing (Fig. 1) length 0.930.98 (0.95, n=6) mm; breadth 0.410.43 (0.43, n=6) mm; membrane slightly infuscated; Sc, M, r-m, R1 and R3 brown; wing sections lenght 550430 µ, two setae on costa proximad of basal arculus; costal fringe long in the margin and center of costa, uniformly distributed along margin of vein and sparsely distributed on center of vein in distal ½ of section I; R3 ending at wing apex. Halter pale brown. Legs brown, hind leg darker (
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), base and apex of tibiae and apex of fore and mid femora, slighlty paler; hind tibial comb with 57 spines, commonly 6 spines (n=6); tarsi paler (
<figureCitation id="8FE62A68FFF95247FBCC238690C9FDA4" box="[1045,1154,1254,1279]" captionStart="FIGURES 2 7" captionStartId="3.[151,264,1491,1514]" captionTargetBox="[256,1333,231,1448]" captionTargetId="figure@3.[229,1358,193,1470]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURES 2 7. Parabezzia unica sp. nov., female. 2. Antenna; 3. Eyes separation, anterior view; 4. Palpus, lateral view; 5. Spermathecae; 6. Legs (left to right) of fore, mid- and hindlegs, lateral view; 7. Tarsi (left to right) fore, mid-and hind tarsomeres, lateral view." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/233824/files/figure.png" pageId="1" pageNumber="391">Figs. 67</figureCitation>
), palisade setae in single row on hind tarsomere 1; fore and hind tarsomere 5 with ventral swelling; mid tarsal claws slightly smaller than fore and mid ones, that are similar in length, lengths of larger and smaller talons of fore, mid and hind claws: 75/ 37.562.5/3075/35 µ (n=6); longest talon of fore, mid and hind leg claws smaller than lenght of their respective tarsomeres 5, LC/T ratios of fore, mid and hind legs 0.840.780.80 (n=6); hind tarsal ratio 2.72.9 (2.8, n=6).
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Abdomen brown. Two very unequal spermathecae (
<figureCitation id="8FE62A68FFF95247FCC622FB972EFCEF" box="[799,869,1435,1460]" captionStart="FIGURES 2 7" captionStartId="3.[151,264,1491,1514]" captionTargetBox="[256,1333,231,1448]" captionTargetId="figure@3.[229,1358,193,1470]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURES 2 7. Parabezzia unica sp. nov., female. 2. Antenna; 3. Eyes separation, anterior view; 4. Palpus, lateral view; 5. Spermathecae; 6. Legs (left to right) of fore, mid- and hindlegs, lateral view; 7. Tarsi (left to right) fore, mid-and hind tarsomeres, lateral view." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/233824/files/figure.png" pageId="1" pageNumber="391">Fig. 5</figureCitation>
) with very short necks, the larger ovoid and the smaller slightly rounded, measuring
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58 µ and
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45 µ (n=6).
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<emphasis id="25A9EAFFFFF95247FF1E2283954FFCA7" bold="true" box="[199,260,1507,1532]" pageId="1" pageNumber="391">Male</emphasis>
. Unknown.
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<emphasis id="25A9EAFFFFF95247FF1E21669512FF44" bold="true" box="[199,345,1542,1567]" pageId="1" pageNumber="391">Distribution</emphasis>
.
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(Rio de Janeiro).
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.
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♀,
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, Rio de Janeiro, Casimiro de Abreu, Union Biological Reserve (22° 25 35″ S, 42° 2 4″ W),
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<date id="6363102DFFF95247FE16212F967DFF3C" box="[463,566,1615,1639]" pageId="1" pageNumber="391" value="2013-01-31">31.I.2013</date>
, “
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” team col., Malaise trap (CCER).
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, 5 ♀: 4 ♀, same data as
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(2CCER; 2 MLP); 1 ♀, same data as
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except
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(CCER).
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<emphasis id="25A9EAFFFFF95247FF1E21F6950DFFF4" bold="true" box="[199,326,1686,1711]" pageId="1" pageNumber="391">Etymology</emphasis>
. The specific epithet is from Latin:
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<emphasis id="25A9EAFFFFF95247FCDA21F8970AFFF4" box="[771,833,1688,1711]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="391">unica</emphasis>
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= unique, referring the only species of the genus
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<emphasis id="25A9EAFFFFF95247FF4E21DB955EFF88" box="[151,277,1723,1747]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="391">Parabezzia</emphasis>
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lacking costal section III.
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<emphasis id="25A9EAFFFFF95247FF1E21BE9586FFAC" bold="true" box="[199,461,1758,1783]" pageId="1" pageNumber="391">Taxonomic discussion</emphasis>
.
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<emphasis id="25A9EAFFFFF95247FE0721BF96E8FFAC" box="[478,675,1759,1783]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="391">Parabezzia unica</emphasis>
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can be distinguished from the other species of
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<emphasis id="25A9EAFFFFF95247FB1521BF9101FFAC" box="[1228,1354,1759,1783]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="391">Parabezzia</emphasis>
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by the absence of the costal section III, a character typical of all species of this genus (
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;
<bibRefCitation id="734C4B1CFFF95247FB0E20639499FE64" author="Grogan" pageId="1" pageNumber="391" refString="Grogan, W. L. Jr. &amp; Wirth, W. W. (1977) A revision of the Neartic species of Parabezzia Malloch (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 50, 49 - 83." type="journal article" year="1977">Grogan &amp; Wirth, 1977</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="734C4B1CFFF95247FF3920469645FE64" author="Clastrier" box="[224,526,1830,1855]" pageId="1" pageNumber="391" refString="Clastrier, J. &amp; Raccurt, C. (1979) Quatre nouveaux Parabezzia de la Republique d'Haiti (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie, 9, 165 - 175." type="journal article" year="1979">Clastrier &amp; Raccurt, 1979</bibRefCitation>
;
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;
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). Although this new species lacks what is likely the clear generic synapomorphy, the combination of all other morphological characters is coincident with that present in
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<emphasis id="25A9EAFFFFF95247FE20200F963CFEDC" box="[505,631,1903,1927]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="391">Parabezzia</emphasis>
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, and therefore we provisionally place it within
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<emphasis id="25A9EAFFFFF95247FB4F200F915FFEDC" box="[1174,1300,1903,1927]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="391">Parabezzia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Due to the pattern of distribution of setae on costal vein,
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<emphasis id="25A9EAFFFFF95247FD7B20F496B7FEF0" box="[674,764,1940,1963]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="391">P. unica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is placed in the
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<emphasis id="25A9EAFFFFF95247FC6020F3905DFEF0" box="[953,1046,1939,1963]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="391">brunnea</emphasis>
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species group. The females of the new species differ from Neotropical species of the
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<emphasis id="25A9EAFFFFF95247FD0720D79770FE94" box="[734,827,1975,1999]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="391">brunnea</emphasis>
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species group by the presence of ventral swelling on fore and hind tarsomere 5 (ventral swelling absent in hind leg in
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<emphasis id="25A9EAFFFFF95247FCA320BC97A4FEA8" box="[890,1007,2012,2035]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="391">P. arenosa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and in
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<emphasis id="25A9EAFFFFF95247FB9F20BC90A9FEA8" box="[1094,1250,2011,2035]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="391">P. caribbeana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, in all legs in
<emphasis id="25A9EAFFFFF95247FA5E20BC91DEFEA8" box="[1415,1429,2012,2035]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="391">P</emphasis>
.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="25A9EAFFFFFA5244FF4E27F894BFF9EB" box="[151,244,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="392">brunnea</emphasis>
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), by the very unequal spermathecae (slightly unequal in
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<emphasis id="25A9EAFFFFFA5244FCB227F9904EF9EB" box="[875,1029,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="392">P. caribbeana</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="25A9EAFFFFFA5244FBE227F99080F9EB" box="[1083,1227,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="392">P. indistincta</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="25A9EAFFFFFA5244FB0B27F79160F9EB" bold="true" box="[1234,1323,151,176]" pageId="2" pageNumber="392">sp. nov.</emphasis>
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, subequal in
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<emphasis id="25A9EAFFFFFA5244FF6C27DD9563F98F" box="[181,296,189,212]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="392">P. arenosa</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="25A9EAFFFFFA5244FEE327DD95FFF98F" box="[314,436,188,212]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="392">P. brunnea</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="25A9EAFFFFFA5244FE3427DD96DEF98F" box="[493,661,189,212]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="392">P. casimirensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="25A9EAFFFFFA5244FD4427DC96BBF98E" bold="true" box="[669,752,188,213]" pageId="2" pageNumber="392">sp.nov.</emphasis>
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, not described in
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<emphasis id="25A9EAFFFFFA5244FC6427DD9013F98F" box="[957,1112,188,212]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="392">P. fuscipennis</emphasis>
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) and by the hind tarsal ratio 2.72.9 (
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,
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<emphasis id="25A9EAFFFFFA5244FDD227819652F9A3" box="[523,537,225,248]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="392">P</emphasis>
.
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and
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<emphasis id="25A9EAFFFFFA5244FD0427819724F9A3" box="[733,879,224,248]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="392">P. indistincta</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="25A9EAFFFFFA5244FCAF27BF9784F9A3" bold="true" box="[886,975,223,248]" pageId="2" pageNumber="392">sp. nov.</emphasis>
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,
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).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="25A9EAFFFFFA5244FF4E20A59558FE81" bold="true" box="[151,275,1989,2011]" pageId="2" pageNumber="392">FIGURE 1.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="25A9EAFFFFFA5244FE0920A6966BFE80" bold="true" box="[464,544,1990,2011]" pageId="2" pageNumber="392">sp. nov.</emphasis>
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, female. A. Wing; B. Wing base, showing costa; C. wing apex, showing r3.
</paragraph>
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