ABSTRACT
Akamboja was recently described based on five species with relatively small geographic ranges, all of which are within the boundaries of the South-eastern Atlantic Rainforest in Brazil. Recent expeditions in the continental island of Ilha Grande (Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil) resulted in the discovery of a new species of the genus. Akamboja insularis sp. nov. has all diagnostic features of the genus, except for the branches of the antennomere IX, which are separated, unlike any other Akamboja. Here, we describe this new species, provide a new record for Akamboja minimum Roza et al. and propose a new diagnosis for the genus.
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Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Drs Ricardo and Margarete Monteiro (Laboratorio de Ecologia de Insetos/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) for providing the samples of Ilha Grande; the staff at Ilha Grande State Park for supporting the research in fieldwork (authorisation INEA No. 056/2016); the staff at Laboratório de Ecologia de Insetos/UFRJ and Laboratório de Entomologia/UFRJ for field assistance and the use of the photographic system acquired by the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ), through grants Proc. 110.040/2014, 010.001641/2014 and 111.247/2014; Pedro Castanheira for helping with the preparation of samples for the SEM and Marcelo Sales for the use of the SEM equipment; and the postgraduate programme in zoology at the Museu Nacional for financial support to the first author. JRMM was funded by PROTAX CNPQ/CAPES 440479/2015-0; CNPq 306105/2016-0; and Faperj 110.040/2014 and 211.522/2016.
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