REVISÃO DO GÊNERO NEOTROPICAL Acanthocera MACQUART (DIPTERA: TABANIDAE)

Abstract

O gênero AcanthoceraMacquart é redefinido e apresentado lista sinonimica, diagnose, figuras e chave para fêmeas das 28 espécies. O subgênero NothocanthoceraFairchild do gênero Dichelaceraé transferido para Acanthocera,exceto D. melanopteraHine, e descrita uma espécie: A. distincta,sp. n. O subgênero MimodynerusEnderlein é sinonimizado sob A. {Acanthocera). A. bequaertiFairchüd & Aitken é revalidada. A. luizi(Enderlein) é sinonimizada sob A. coarctata(Wiedemann). A fêmea de A. polistiformisFairchild é descrita. Um novo lectótipo é designado para A. tenuicornis.

Checklist and Notes on Behavior of Horse Flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) from Marambaia Island, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with New Records for the State

“…Guimarães from Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública (ENSP, IOC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, identified the specimens collected during 2012-2013. Guimarães used keys, original descriptions, taxonomic reviews and comparisons with voucher specimens (BarreTTo 1946;FaircHild & PHiliP 1960;FaircHild 1961aFaircHild , 1972FaircHild , 1976FaircHild , 1983FaircHild , 1984FaircHild , 1985coscarón & FaircHild 1976;FaircHild & WilKerson 1981, 1986Henriques & raFael 1995;coscarón & PaPavero 2009acoscarón & PaPavero , 2009b. Most specimens collected during the study periods are deposited in the Entomological Collection of Centro de Educação e Pesquisas em Medicina Ambiental (CEMA -RG IBAMA Nº 3199320), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.…”

Corrections and additions to Catalogue of Neotropical Diptera (Tabanidae) of Coscarón & Papavero (2009)

“…Synonymized under Acanthocera (A.) coarctata (Wiedemann, 1828) by Henriques & Rafael (1995), information omitted by Coscarón & Papavero (2009: 56). Acanthocera (Nothocanthocera) distincta Henriques & Rafael, 1995: 425, figs.…”

“…Dichelacera (Dichelacera) corumbaensis Barros & Gorayeb, 1995: 483, Dichelacera melanoptera Hine, 1920. Classified as incertae sedis by Henriques & Rafael (1995). Treated as (Nothocanthocera) Fairchild by Coscarón & Papavero (2009: 88).…”

“…Part II is an addendum to the Neotropical Catalogue of Tabanidae based on the following references cited by Coscarón & Papavero (2009), but from which some taxonomic information was excluded, without justification: Barros & Gorayeb (1995, cited erroneously as Gorayeb & Barros (1995); Henriques & Rafael (1995); Burger (1999); Chainey et al (1999);Limeira-de-Oliveira & Rafael (2005) and Gorayeb & Barros (2006). Part III is an additional list of recently described species.…”

Description of Dichelacera (Dichelacera) matogrossensis sp. nov. (Diptera, Tabanidae) of Brazilian Midwestern

“…According to recent Neotropical catalog (Coscarón & Papavero, 2009) Dichelacera Macquart, 1838, has five subgenera and 80 species, but Henriques & Rafael (1995) transferred 11 species of the subgenus Nothocanthocera Fairchild to genus Acanthocera Macquart, as noted in Henriques et al (2012), so in this sense, the genus has four subgenera and 69 species. Dichelacera (Dichelacera) was reviewed by Fairchild & Philip (1960), when the subgenus had 49 valid species.…”