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Issue: Vol. 3764 No. 3: 11 Feb. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-02-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3764.3.2
Page range: 201–239
Abstract views: 35
PDF downloaded: 1

A review of the genus Rhipidia Meigen from China, with descriptions of seven new species (Diptera, Limoniidae)

Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China.
Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China. Department of Entomology, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19103-1195, USA
Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China.
Diptera Limoniidae Rhipidia new species China

Abstract

The genus Rhipidia Meigen, 1818 from China is reviewed. Twenty-one species are presented, of which seven species, Rhipidia (Rhipidia) bilobata sp. nov., R. (R.) flava sp. nov., R. (R.) lobifera sp. nov., R. (R.) longa sp. nov., R. (R.) sejuga sp. nov., R. (R.) shennongjiensis sp. nov., and R. (R.) spinosa sp. nov., are described as new to science, and one species, R. (R.) reductispina Savchenko, 1983, is recorded from China for the first time. A key to the species of the genus Rhipidia from China is given.