Studies on Black Flies of Panama (Diptera: Simuliidae). I. Two New Species of Simulium of the Subgenus Notolepria

Author: FIELD GORDON  

Publisher: Entomological Society of America

ISSN: 1938-2901

Source: Annals of the Entomological Society of America, Vol.60, Iss.1, 1967-01, pp. : 188-194

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Abstract

Simulium (Notolepria) subexiguum is described from males and females reared from pupae, and both sexes and certain pupal structures are illustrated. S. (N.) blantoni is based on females taken in a New Jersey-type light trap, and structural details of this sex are figured. These are the first species of the subgenus Notolepria Enderlein reported from Panama. They bear strong generic resemblances to other species in the exiguum-complex, such as S. (N.) exiguum Roubaud, 1906; S. (N.) incrustatum Lutz, 1910; S. (N.) gonzalezi Vargas and Díaz Nájera, 1953; and to descriptions and figures of S. (N.) exiguum of authors, but not of Lane and Vulcano, 1943.