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Review of the longipalpus-Group of Chrysotus Meigen (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), with Description of Four New Species

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The longipalpus-group of Chrysotus Meigen is reviewed and comprises eight species: Chrysotus coquitos n. sp. (Mexico), Chrysotus crosbyi Van Duzee (Eastern US, Bermuda, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Brazil; introduced in Australasian Region), Chrysotus longipalpus Aldrich (=Chrysotus sagittarius Van Duzee, n. syn.; Eastern US, Saint Vincent, Grenadas and Brazil; introduced in the Afrotropical, Australasian, Oriental and Palaearctic regions), Chrysotus miripalpus Parent (Costa Rica and Brazil), Chrysotus neopedionomus n. sp. (Brazil), Chrysotus pachystoma n. sp. (Belize), Chrysotus xiphostoma Robinson (Dominica and Saint Lucia), and Chrysotus zumbadoi n. sp. (Costa Rica). Lectotype and paralectotypes are designated for Chrysotus pallidipalpus Van Duzee, and a neotype for C. miripalpus. Illustrations of the hypopygium and ovipositor, photos of the male palpus and a key to species of the group are provided.

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Acknowledgments

Carlos Lamas (MZSP) (funded by CNPq-SISBIOTA FAPESP 2010/52314-0), Jeffrey Cumming (CNC), Manuel Zumbado (INBio), and Norman Penny (CAS) kindly facilitated loan of specimens. Harold Robinson, Norman Woodley (Smithsonian Institution), and Dan Bickel (Australian Museum) offered useful suggestions to the manuscript. Dan Bickel is also thanked for making available material of C. coquitos and kindly providing information on new records of C. crosbyi and C. longipalpus. Mónica Solórzano Kraemer (Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum) collected the specimens of C. coquitos, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG, project SO894/3-1). Duncan Sivell (BMNH) provided useful information on type material, and Neal Evenhuis (BPBM) shared his data on the type series of C. pallidipalpus, allowing lectotype designation. Danilo Ament, Diego Porto, and Eduardo Almeida (FFCLRP) helped with the photos. This study benefited from FAPESP grants 2008/58224-3 and 2013/01392-0.

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Capellari, R.S. Review of the longipalpus-Group of Chrysotus Meigen (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), with Description of Four New Species. Neotrop Entomol 44, 47–58 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-014-0254-5

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