Graphomya Robineau-Desvoidy from Costa Rica: descriptions and first records (Diptera, Muscidae)

• Main Authors: MS. Couri, B. Marques
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Instituto Internacional de Ecologia
• Series: Brazilian Journal of Biology
• Subjects: morphology; Neotropical; terminalia; taxonomy; new records
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-69842009000400025&lng=en&tlng=en

Graphomya Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Muscidae) occurs in temperate and tropical regions of the world. It is known in the Neotropical Region from fifteen species. The genus is here recorded for the first time from Costa Rica, on the basis of three species: G. auriceps Malloch, 1934; G. mexicana Giglio-Tos, 1893 and G. tropicalis Malloch, 1934. A key for the recognition of these three species is given. G. auriceps is redescribed, including the morphology of male and female terminalia and the male of G. tropicalis is described for the first time. For G. mexicana, a well-known species in the literature, only a brief diagnosis and the material examined are listed.