Description of Culicoides (Mataemyia) felippebauerae sp. n., Forcipomyia musae immatures, and occurrence of F. genualis, breeding in banana stems in Brazilian Amazonia (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 659-669

  Spinelli, Gustavo R ^a   Ronderos, María M ^a   Marino, Pablo I ^a   Carrasco, Daiane Silveira ^b   Menezes Ferreira, Ruth L ^b  

^a MUSEO DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

"Bananeiro"; Biting midges; Culicoides; Forcipomyia; Immatures; Manaus; New species

Indexed keywords

CERATOPOGONIDAE; DIPTERA; FORCIPOMYIA; FORCIPOMYIA GENUALIS; HEXAPODA; PHENAKOSPERMUM GUYANENSE;

EID: 36248941159     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: 16788060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762007000600001     Document Type: Article

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