FIGURE 1. Habitat, adults and larvae of bamboo-inhabiting Ulidiidae in Bolivia (Aspistomella sp., Ulivellia sp.). A, a stand of Guadua angustifolia subsp. chacoensis along a stream in the Buena Vista region; B, Aspistomella duo sp. nov. on a bamboo culm; C, Aspistomella tres sp. nov. on a bamboo culm; D, ulidiid larvae inhabit young bamboo culms that still have basal culm sheaths (arrow); E, entry hole made by a Crambidae (Lepidoptera) caterpillar; F, interior view of the bamboo internode wall showing a Crambidae caterpillar, the area eaten up by the caterpillar (a), the crambid entry hole (b) and the protective web made by the caterpillar (c); G, opened internode cavity of a freshly felled bamboo culm showing ulidiid larvae floating on the water surface or crawling in the terrestrial part of the internode; H, ulidiid larvae gathering at the bottom of a drying up internode; I, two ulidiid larvae and a syrphid larva floating on the water surface (the arrow points to the siphon of the syrphid larva). (All photographs by Damir Kovac.)

Published as part of Kovac, Damir, Kameneva, Elena P., Korneyev, Severyn V., Araújo, Alexandre Santos, Savaris, Marcoandre, Smit, John T., Schneider, Alexander, Schreiber, Robert & Korneyev, Valery A., 2024, Revision of the Aspistomella group of genera (Diptera: Ulidiidae: Pterocallinae: Lipsanini), pp. 1-117 in Zootaxa 5530 (1) on page 6, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5530.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14023149