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THE SPECIES OF THE MACROCERA NOBILIS GROUP IN THE HOLARCTIC REGION (DIPTERA: MYCETOPHILIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

J. R. Vockeroth
Affiliation:
Biosystematics Research Institute, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa

Abstract

The males of four very similar species of Macrocera are keyed and briefly described. They are grandis Lundström (Finland, U.S.S.R.), nobilis Johnson (Nearctic, widespread), summatis n. sp. (Sweden), insignis n. sp. (New Hampshire). The group of species is characterized as the nobilis group.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1976

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