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Descriptions of the previously unknown xylobiont larva and pupa of Atypophthalmus inustus (Diptera, Limoniidae)

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The larval and pupal morphology of Atypophthalmus inustus (Meigen, 1818) are described for the first time. The main diagnostic characters are the following: head capsule massive, frons with 3 short terminal projections, hypostomium with 11 teeth and long narrow split, hypopharynx and labium with well-developed conical teeth, stigmal area with 2 long ventral pigmented spots.

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    N. P. Krivosheina

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Original Russian Text © N.P. Krivosheina, 2011, published in Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 2011, Vol. 90, No. 8, pp. 1012–1016.

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Krivosheina, N.P. Descriptions of the previously unknown xylobiont larva and pupa of Atypophthalmus inustus (Diptera, Limoniidae). Entmol. Rev. 91, 806–810 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873811060133

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