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Anopheles (Shannoniezia) costalimai Fonseca e Ramos, 1940, novo nome e a redescrição da espécie (Diptera-Culicidae)

The A. has identified several samples of A. (Sh.) costalimai (=limai), working with material from Paranaguá, paraná, BRAZIL. He redescribed the species and gave a description of the larvae and pupa. The creators of the species were notified by the A. that the name limai is preoccupied by an identical name given to variety of A. (N.) albitarsis described by Galvão & Lane in 1937, and suggested the new name for it, used in this paper. The A. has mantained the subgenus Shannoniezia that was brought forth by Fonseca and Ramos in 1940. In this work the A. discusses the differential diagnosis between A. (Sh.) costalimai and A. (Sh.) mediopunctatus. He only refers incidently to A. (Sh.) costai and does not give his opinion towards validity. He speaks about material with which Bonne and Bonne-Webster worked and he thinks that they worked with more than one species because there is no agreement in their descriptions of specimens of different places.


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