New species and records of Dicraeus Loew, 1873 from China (Diptera: Chloropidae)

XIAOYAN LIU; DING YANG; EMILIA P. NARTSHUK

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4554.2.2

Issue: Vol. 4554 No. 2: 11 Feb. 2019

Type: Article

Published: 2019-02-11

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4554.2.2

Page range: 351–370

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**New species and records of Dicraeus Loew, 1873 from China (Diptera: Chloropidae)**

XIAOYAN LIU⁺⁻
DING YANG⁺⁻
EMILIA P. NARTSHUK⁺⁻

Hubei Insect Resources Utilization and Sustainable Pest Management Key Laboratory, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China

Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China

Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia

Diptera grass flies Oscinellinae taxonomy distribution vein R2 3 surstylus

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Abstract

A review of the species of the genus Dicraeus from China is provided. The following five described species are new to science: D. crassispinus sp. n., D. curvus sp. n., D. dentatus sp. n., D. liupanshanensis sp. n. and D. minutidentatus sp. n. Four species, D. fuscipennis Kanmiya, D. malaisei Nartshuk, D. nartshukae Kanmiya and D. rossicus Stackelberg, are recorded from China for the first time. A key to the species of the Dicraeus from China is given.

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