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    Annotated checklist of the Dolichopodidae (Diptera) of Singapore, with new records and descriptions of new species

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    Forty-four species of Dolichopodidae are listed from the island of Singapore, with 28 of these constituting new records for the country. One new genus: Ngirhaphium; and five new species: Thinophilus murphyi, Thinophilus asiobates, Thinophilus longicilia, Ngirhaphium murphyi, and Scotiomyia singaporensis, are described and illustrated

    Revisão de Euprepina Hull (Diptera, Bombyliidae, Bombyliinae) Revision of Euprepina Hull (Diptera, Bombyliidae, Bombyliinae)

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    <abstract language="eng">Euprepina Hull, 1971 (Diptera, Bombyliidae, Bombyliinae) a neotropical genus with ten species is revised. Redescriptions of eight species were made: E. nuda Hull, 1971, E. amabilis (Wulp, 1881), E. beckeri Lamas & Couri, 1998, E. bicincta (Wiedemann, 1830), E. caminaria (Wiedemann, 1830), E. knutsoni Hull, 1971, E. maracajula Hull, 1971 and E. truxalia Hull, 1971, with illustrations of the types, male terminalia and spermathecae. Two synonymies - E. bicincta (Wiedemann, 1830), syn.: E. bicincta Hull, 1971; and E. nuda Hull, 1971, syn.: E. shannoni Hull, 1971 - are proposed. A key to species are presented except to E. goyaz (Macquart, 1840) and E. aperta (Macquart, 1847), which were not included in this study, as no material was examined
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