Two new bee-killing flies from Brazil (Insecta: Diptera: Phoridae: Melaloncha)

Abstract. BACKGROUND: The genus Melaloncha is a large group of species of parasitoid phorid flies that attack Hymenoptera, mostly stingless bees (Meliponinae, Apidae) in the Neotropical Region. NEW INFORMATION: Two new Brazilian species, Melaloncha (Melaloncha) peacockorum sp. n. and Melaloncha (Uda...

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Autor principal: Brown, Brian V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2016
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Taxonomic Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4759441/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26929720
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e7715
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description Abstract. BACKGROUND: The genus Melaloncha is a large group of species of parasitoid phorid flies that attack Hymenoptera, mostly stingless bees (Meliponinae, Apidae) in the Neotropical Region. NEW INFORMATION: Two new Brazilian species, Melaloncha (Melaloncha) peacockorum sp. n. and Melaloncha (Udamochiras) nielsi sp. n., are described and their identification clarified.
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spelling pubmed-47594412016-02-29 Two new bee-killing flies from Brazil (Insecta: Diptera: Phoridae: Melaloncha) Brown, Brian V. Biodivers Data J Taxonomic Paper Abstract. BACKGROUND: The genus Melaloncha is a large group of species of parasitoid phorid flies that attack Hymenoptera, mostly stingless bees (Meliponinae, Apidae) in the Neotropical Region. NEW INFORMATION: Two new Brazilian species, Melaloncha (Melaloncha) peacockorum sp. n. and Melaloncha (Udamochiras) nielsi sp. n., are described and their identification clarified. Pensoft Publishers 2016-02-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4759441/ /pubmed/26929720 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e7715 Text en Brian V. Brown http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC-BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Two new bee-killing flies from Brazil (Insecta: Diptera: Phoridae: Melaloncha)
title Two new bee-killing flies from Brazil (Insecta: Diptera: Phoridae: Melaloncha)
title_full Two new bee-killing flies from Brazil (Insecta: Diptera: Phoridae: Melaloncha)
title_fullStr Two new bee-killing flies from Brazil (Insecta: Diptera: Phoridae: Melaloncha)
title_full_unstemmed Two new bee-killing flies from Brazil (Insecta: Diptera: Phoridae: Melaloncha)
title_short Two new bee-killing flies from Brazil (Insecta: Diptera: Phoridae: Melaloncha)
title_sort two new bee-killing flies from brazil (insecta: diptera: phoridae: melaloncha)
topic Taxonomic Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4759441/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26929720
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e7715
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