Fauna of China Volume
2 (2001): 163-164
BOOK REVIEW: LASIOHELEA OF SOUTHEAST ASIA
Lasiohelea of Southeast Asia By Yixin Yu & Willis
W. Wirth. Military Medical Scientific Press, Beijing, China. 1997. 88pp.
ISBN 7-80121-099-9 (pbk) [in English with Chinese abstract and key to species].
Few taxonomic monographs published in China are written in English and
include taxa from outside China. This booklet is one of them. It is
a taxonomic monograph of midges belonging to the genus Lasiohelea (Diptera:
Ceratopogonidae: Forcipomyiinae), based on material collected by Wirth
and colleagues from various Southeast Asian countries. It describes 43
species of Lasiohelea from this region, including 27 new species and 8
new records. Prior to this monograph, only 8 species of Lasiohelea were
known in Southeast Asia (Borkent & Wirth, 1997).
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