Maruina Müller

Canneva, Bruno, 2019, A new species of Laurenceomyia Wagner & Stuckenberg, with a key to species and new records for Psychodidae (Diptera) from Uruguay, Zootaxa 4544 (3), pp. 407-418 : 413-414

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4544.3.6

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5DDC707B-576C-40EA-8AD6-AF6C38360684

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5921931

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/094087D9-AF7F-770E-FF51-2BA2FB196EDA

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Plazi

scientific name

Maruina Müller
status

 

Maruina Müller View in CoL View at ENA

Maruina Müller, 1895: 480 View in CoL .

Maruininae: Forattini 1973: 36 (as a distinct subfamily).

Literature record in Uruguay. Castro et al. (2018). Arroyo Sauce del Salsipuedes, Tacuarembó; Arroyo Tiatucura, Paysandú.

Remarks. This genus can be identified by the narrow lanceolate wings, and the larvae having ventral suckers.

Immature stages are associated with fast streams and waterfalls where they live on rocks near the surface or in the splash zone ( Quate & Vockeroth 1981). Maruina is a new world genus, also distributed in Canada, USA, Mexico, Central America, the Greater and Lesser Antilles, Chile, Brazil and Argentina ( Hogue 1990).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Psychodidae

Loc

Maruina Müller

Canneva, Bruno 2019
2019
Loc

Maruina Müller, 1895: 480

Muller 1895: 480
1895
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