Diversity of Odiniidae (Diptera: Schizophora)in the Neotropical Region, with emphasis in Southeast Brazil

• Grant number: 16/21333-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: May 01, 2017
• End date: April 30, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Taxonomy of Recent Groups
• Principal Investigator: Dalton de Souza Amorim
• Grantee: Heloísa Fernandes Flores
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (FFCLRP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Ribeirão Preto , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Odiniidae (Diptera: Schizophora) is a family of flies of worldwide distribution, with 65 described species in 15 genera. These flies belong to Opomyzoidea superfamily, a group that has received little attention from taxonomists in Brazil, creating gaps in the knowledge of Acalyptratae diversity. There are still many species to be described and even generic taxa in the family, particularly from the Neotropical region, including Brazil. The study of family diversity should allow, in addition to advances in taxonomic knowledge of the group, an understanding of family basic plan for various body structures. Many specimens have been collected and deposited in entomological collections in Brazil and abroad, and are available for study. With the study of this material, this project aims to raise the knowledge of the diversity of Odiniidae in the Neotropical reagion, emphasizing the Brazilian fauna and, more specifically, the fauna of southeastern Brazil. The material of Odiniidae available for study will be identified up to the specific level and possible new species will be described, with photographs and illustrations of the head, thorax, wing, habitus, male and female terminalia. In addition, six species of Odiniidae with occurrence to the southeast of Brazil - one of Lopesiodinia, one of Neotraginops, two of Paratraginops and two of Schildomyia will be redescribed. The results of this project will be presented as Undergraduate Thesis and, as a result, will familiarize the student with the Odiniidae morphology and taxonomy and the general problems of homology and position of this family in Opomyzoidea. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

FLORES, HELOISA FERNANDES; PIRANI, GABRIELA; GAIMARI, STEPHEN D.; AMORIM, DALTON DE SOUZA. Two new species of Neotraginops Prado from Costa Rica and Brazil (Diptera: Odiniidae: Traginopinae). Zootaxa, v. 5048, n. 2, p. 176-190, OCT 6 2021. (16/21333-6, 18/14504-4)