24 new species of flower fly found in Central and Southern America

Thursday, January 31, 2013 - 08:00 in Biology & Nature

A team of scientists have described twenty four new species of dipterans belonging to Quichuana genus, of which only a further 24 species were known. The researchers, including two Spanish biologists, have been studying the forests of Central and Southern America for ten years and they have now published their results in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.

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