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Issue: Vol. 2824 No. 1: 19 Apr. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-04-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2824.1.5
Page range: 62–68
Abstract views: 32
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of black fly (Diptera: Simuliidae) with an entirely yellow thorax from Darjeeling, India

Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, 50603, Malaysia, & Department of Infectious Disease Control, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Hasama, Yufu City, Oita 879-5593, Japan
Postgraduate Department of Zoology, Darjeeling Government College, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
Postgraduate Department of Zoology, Darjeeling Government College, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
Diptera Simulium Simuliidae India new species

Abstract

A new black fly species, Simulium (Nevermannia) subratai sp. nov., is described on the basis of female, pupal and larval specimens collected from Darjeeling, India. This new species is assigned to the feuerborni species-group of the subgenus Simulium (Nevermannia), and is characterized by the entirely yellow female thorax and the larval abdomen without any colored markings. This is the first record of a black fly species with the adult having an entirely yellow thorax in the Oriental Region.

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