Paraclius Loew
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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.191040 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6212820 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0907EA79-D133-5152-E0B9-FBBEFDA2F91A |
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Paraclius Loew View in CoL View at ENA
Paraclius Loew, 1864: 97 View in CoL . Type species: Pelastoneurus arcuatus Loew 1864: 101 View in CoL (subsequent designation by Coquillett 1910: 583).
Leptocorypha Aldrich, 1896: 315 . Type species: L. pavo Aldrich 1896: 316 View in CoL (monotypy) (synonymized by Robinson 1970).
Recognition (based on Brooks 2005). Stylus bare to strongly pubescent, not plumose; clypeus flat or weakly pronounced, distinctly shorter than face in males, not exceeding lower margin of eyes; wing vein M bent beyond crossvein m-cu; mid and hind femora usually with one preapical seta.
Comments. Brooks (2005) already suggested that Paraclius is a “polyphyletic assemblage of species”, so a strict diagnosis for the genus cannot be presented at this time and has to await a revision and redefinition of the genus. The recognition of the genus presented here is a reduction of that proposed by Brooks (2005). The general morphology of all four species described here is considerably very similar, so P. amphiatheratus , sp. nov. is described in detail and only differential features of the other three species are provided. These new species do not fit the description of any of the previously described Neotropical Paraclius . Three females collected in Recife, State of Pernambuco, Brazil, could not be associated to males and are informally described as “ Paraclius sp.” below.
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Paraclius Loew
Capellari, Renato Soares & Amorim, Dalton De Souza 2009 |
Leptocorypha
Aldrich 1896: 315 |
Aldrich 1896: 316 |
Paraclius
Coquillett 1910: 583 |
Loew 1864: 97 |
Loew 1864: 101 |