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NEW DISTRIBUTIONAL RECORDS OF MECOPTERA (INSECTA) FROM COLOMBIA

ABSTRACT

We present new distributional records for two Colombian species of Bittacidae. Pazius convolutus García-García & Cadena-Castañeda, 2015GARCÍA-GARCÍA, A. & CADENA-CASTAÑEDA, O.J. 2015. Una nueva especie de Pazius Navás, 1908 (Mecoptera: Bittacidae) de Colombia. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa, 57:200-204. and Bittacus panamensis Byers, 1958BYERS, G.W. 1958. Description and distributional records of American Mecoptera. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 31(3):213-222. previously known from Cundinamarca department are herein newly recorded from Santander and Magdalena, respectively. In addition, we recorded Bittacus pignatelli Navás, 1932 in Colombia for the first time, increasing the number of species of Mecoptera in the country. Comments about mating behavior of P. convolutus, as well as a distribution map and a check-list of Colombian species of Mecoptera are included.

KEY-WORDS:
Hangingflies; New records; Neotropics; Mecoptera; Colombia

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