Further notes on Neotropical Ceratopogonini (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

Abstract

Spinelli & Wirth (1984) reviewed the genus Alluaudomyia Kieffer in the Neotropics, from specimens collected mainly in the Amazonas, Central America, and the Caribbean Islands.Among the 17 species that they treated, only the pupae of A. schnecki Spinelli and A. caribbeana S. & W. were described by thern, and the following four species were recorded south of the Amazon Basin: A. catarinensis S. & W. and A. plaumanni S. & W. from southeastern Brazil, A. leei S. & W. from Bolivia, and A. schnacki from Buenos Aires province in Argentina. Subsequently, Spinelli (1985) recorded A. amazonica for the Argentinian province of Entre Ríos, and Spinelli (1988) described two new species: A. biestroi from northeastern Argentina and Uruguay, and A. guarani from these same areas and Paraguay. In this paper, A. distispinulosa S. & W. is recorded from Bolivia for the first time and its pupa, which was recently collected by L.J. Hribar, is described, and A. punctivenosa Wirth & Grogan is recorded for northeastern Argentina and Paraguay.