Pazius Navás, 1908

Ardila-Camacho, Adrian, Vargas, Juan Felipe, Arango, Carlos Julio, García-García, Alexander & Machado, Renato Jose Pires, 2017, New distributional records of Mecoptera (Insecta) from Colombia, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) 57 (18), pp. 221-229 : 224

Pazius Navás, 1908

The genus Pazius Navás is endemic to the Neotropical region, and is often found in the northwestern part of South America but extending up to Central America (from Brazil to Costa Rica). This group was reviewed by Byers (1957, 1977), and currently consist of eleven species grouped into three species groups (Machado et al., 2009; Ascuntar-Osnas et al., 2016; Lima & Dias, 2016). The genus is easily distinguished from other members of Bittacidae by its narrow wings with short anal veins ( Fig. 3a ) ( Byers, 1957; 1977), compound eyes are holoptic, and are connected below the antennae insertion. Furthermore, the abdomen is elongated and narrow, extending beyond the wing tips ( Byers, 1957; 1977; Machado et al., 2009; Tan & Hua, 2009b). Lima & Dias (2016) provided a complete identification key for all species of Pazius .

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FIGURE 3: Pazius convolutus: (A) wing venation; (B) head and thorax, lateral; (C) male terminalia, lateral; (D) male terminalia, dorsal. Scale bars = 1 mm.