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Issue: Vol. 4402 No. 1: 27 Mar. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-03-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4402.1.5
Page range: 113–135
Abstract views: 71
PDF downloaded: 4

Seven new species of Strongylophthalmyia Heller, 1902 (Diptera: Strongylophthalmyiidae) from the Eastern Palaearctic and Oriental Regions with notes on peculiar rare species

Department of Entomology, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie gory 1–12, Moscow, 119234, Russia Museum of Entomology, All-Russian Plant Quarantine Center, Pogranichnaya 32, Bykovo, 140150, Russia
Zoological Museum, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Bol’shaya Nikitskaya 6, Moscow, 125009, Russia
Diptera systematics Vietnam Malaysia Indonesia Thailand China Russia

Abstract

Seven species of Strongylophthalmyia are described as new species: Strongylophthalmyia armipes n. sp. (Malaysia), S. biloba n. sp. (Indonesia), S. bukittinggiana n. sp. (Indonesia), S. minutissima n. sp. (Thailand), S. prominens n. sp. (Vietnam), S. strigosa n. sp. (China), S. vichrevi n. sp. (Russia). New data on morphology and distribution of S. bifasciata Yang et Wang 1992 and S. malayensis Evenhuis, 2016 are provided.

 

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