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Ceratopogonidae
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Ceratopogoninae
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Ceratopogonini
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Yungahelea
Yungahelea australis Spinellli & Ronderos, 2018
male
Geographic distribution
Distribution
Record
- Argentina
- Tucumán
Other distribution
australis Spinelli and Ronderos, in Spinelli et al., 2018: 142 (male, female). Type locality: Argentina, Tucumán, Departamento J.B. Alberdi, Escaba arriba, río Chavarría, 27°38'23.6''S, 65°47'33.9''W, 656 m. HT M (MLPA). Distr.- Argentina (Tucumán: type locality). Refs.: Spinelli et al., 2018: 142.
The monotypic genus and species of predaceous midge from the southernmost area of the Argentinean Yungas, Yungahelea australis Spinelli and Ronderos is described and illustrated from male and female adults. It belongs to a group containing the Ceratopogonini genera Parabezzia Malloch, Diaphanobezzia (Ingram and Macfie), Spinellihelea Borkent, Grogan and Picado, Leptohelea Wirth and Blanton and Fittkauhelea Wirth and Blanton. Phylogenetic interpretation indicates that Yungahelea is the sister group of Spinellihelea or the clade composed by Parabezzia and Diaphanobezzia.
The monotypic genus and species of predaceous midge from the southernmost area of the Argentinean Yungas, Yungahelea australis Spinelli and Ronderos is described and illustrated from male and female adults. It belongs to a group containing the Ceratopogonini genera Parabezzia Malloch, Diaphanobezzia (Ingram and Macfie), Spinellihelea Borkent, Grogan and Picado, Leptohelea Wirth and Blanton and Fittkauhelea Wirth and Blanton. Phylogenetic interpretation indicates that Yungahelea is the sister group of Spinellihelea or the clade composed by Parabezzia and Diaphanobezzia.
- SPINELLI, G. R., M. M. RONDEROS, M.DONATO & A. SIRI. 2018. Yungahelea, a new genus of predaceous midge fron northwestern Argentina (Culicomorphra: Ceratopogonidae). An. Acad. Bras. Cienc. 90 (1).:137-146.
