Estimating Diversity of Black Flies in the Simulium ignescens and Simulium tunja Complexes in Colombia: Chromosomal Rearrangements as the Core of Integrative Taxonomy.

Black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) are distributed throughout the world, with more than 2200 formally described species. The family is renowned for its high frequency of cryptic species, offering an opportunity for integrative taxonomy, based on morphological, chromosomal, and molecular approaches. The biodiversity within Simulium (Psilopelmia) ignescens and S.

How many species of woolly monkeys inhabit Colombian forests?

There is a controversy regarding how many species the genus Lagothrix contains, since the Lagothrix lagothricha subspecies have been recently proposed to be actual species. Clarification of species status is of particular importance in the case of L. l.