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Issue: Vol. 4551 No. 2: 31 Jan. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-01-30
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4551.2.8
Page range: 237–243
Abstract views: 125
PDF downloaded: 2

New Scuttle flies (Diptera: Phoridae) reared from dead Termite, Odontotermes formosanus (Shiraki, 1909) (Isoptera: Termitidae) in China

Liaoning Key Laboratory of Urban Integrated Pest Management and Ecological Security, College of Life Science and Bioengineering, Shenyang University, Shenyang 110044, China
Yunnan Key Laboratory for Integrative Conservation of Plant Species with Extremely Small Populations, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650204, China.
Diptera Phoridae Megaselia Termitidae Odontotermes new species

Abstract

Two scuttle flies, Megaselia nigrifinis sp. n. and M. setidifferitatis sp. n. are described and illustrated. The flies were reared from dead termite, Odontotermes formosanus (Shiraki, 1909) (Isoptera: Termitidae) in Nanjing, China.

 

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