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Issue: Vol. 3300 No. 1: 4 May. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-05-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3300.1.5
Page range: 55–61
Abstract views: 49
PDF downloaded: 2

Two new species of Syneches belonging to S. signatus species-group from Vietnam (Diptera: Empidoidea, Hybotinae)

Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Haidian, Beijing 100193, China
Key Laboratory of the Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chaoyang, Beijing 100101, China
Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Haidian, Beijing 100193, China
Diptera Empidoidea Syneches new species Vietnam

Abstract

The following two species of Syneches from Vietnam belonging to the S. signatus species-group are described as new to sci-ence: Syneches apicalis sp. nov. and S. basalis sp. nov. A key to the known species of this group from Vietnam and China is presented.

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