Redescription of the pupa of Parabezzia balseiroi (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

SPINELLI GR; RONDEROS MM; MARINO PI

REVISTA DE LA SOCIEDAD ENTOMOLóGICA ARGENTINA

SOCIEDAD ENTOMOLÓGICA ARGENTINA

Lugar: Mendoza; Año: 2012 vol. 71 p. 163 - 168

0373-5680

The pupa of Parabezzia balseiroi was described and illustrated using binocular microscope, camera lucida and digital photographs. Pupae were captured along a stream margin in the Parque Provincial E. Tornquist Reserve, Sierra de la Ventana, Buenos Aires province, Argentina. Also, additional pupae were observed, measured and photographed on the basis of the type series deposited in the Museo de La Plata. Parabezzia balseiroi is compared with P. alexanderi Wirth, which was also herein studied and photographed from nearctic specimens.