XXV.—Brazilian Blepharoceridae. (Diptera, Nematocera.)

Some net‐winged midges from Argentina (Diptera: Blephariceridae)

“…His project remains unfortunately incomplete but revealed that many species still need to be described, despite several important early studies (mainly Mü ller, 1881aMü ller, , 1881bMü ller, , 1881cMü ller, , 1881dLutz, 1920;Edwards, 1929;Lane & d'Andretta, 1956).…”

An illustrated catalogue of the types of Blephariceridae (Diptera) in the collection of Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

“…After that, two further species were described based on male adults, K. brevicornia (Edwards, 1929) and K. chilena (Alexander, 1952), from Misiones, Argentina and Santiago, Chile, respectively (Hogue, 1971). The last published paper about Kelloggina species was from Lane & d'Andretta (1956). The authors published the results of a regional survey, based on 227 specimens collected from few areas in the southeastern region of Brazil.…”

“…Comparing the species described by Lutz (1920) with Lane & d'Andretta's (1956) is a difficult task. The delimitations of Lutz's species were clearly based on the immatures; in contrast, Lane & d'Andretta's exclusive reliance on adults.…”

“…The delimitations of Lutz's species were clearly based on the immatures; in contrast, Lane & d'Andretta's exclusive reliance on adults. Lane & d'Andretta (1956) indicated further: "We had great difficult in the interpretation of his [Lutz] descriptions and, as we are not able to see his material, we feel that mistakes and possible synonyms may occur and that when a more extensive study can be made from bred material, some of our forms may be representatives of Lutz's species, specially those which he described from the immature stages. " As stated by Hogue (1971), both studies focused on the same area of southeastern Brazil and there may be some overlapped species.…”

“…Lutz (1920) provided useful descriptions of the immatures, which are richly illustrated, but did not provide the same treatment to adults, which are neither well described, nor well illustrated. On the other hand, Lane & d'Andretta (1956) presented superficial descriptions of adults. They illustrate only general characteristics of male terminalia, which curiously are not described in the paper.…”