Details for Shannonomyia (Roraimomyia) permonstrata | Name: | Shannonomyia (Roraimomyia) permonstrata (Alexander, 1935) | | Publication: | Ann. Ent. Soc. Am. 28: 323 (as Limnophila) | | Status: | Recognized taxon. | | Classification: | Family Limoniidae
Subfamily Limnophilinae
| | Descriptive note: | The two species of Roraimomyia differ from all other Tipuloidea in the almost total loss of wings and halteres (Alexander, 1935h, 1947r, 1948n, 1970g, 1979b). | | | | Distribution: | Brazil or Venezuela. | | Region(s): | Neotropic | | General note: | The species is only known after the type-locality: Summit of Mt Roraima. Species from this type-locality are treated here as from Brazil or Venezuela (see also Santos, 2026). Countries history: Described from Brazil; Alexander, 1947r: Venezuela (replacing Brazil); Neotropical Catalogue (Alexander and Alexander, 1970): Venezuela; Santos, 2026: Brazil (annotated checklist). | | | | Biology: | Alexander, 1935h (orig descr), 1947r, 1948n (habitat, behaviour). | | | | Citations | | | Brazil
Distribution not confirmed. Santos, 2026: Species catalogue (known from Roraima state, loc(s), refs). |
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