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Issue: Vol. 1661 No. 1: 14 Dec. 2007
Type: Article
Published: 2007-12-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1661.1.6
Page range: 55–61
Abstract views: 49
PDF downloaded: 1

Non-marine Chersodromia Walker from Southeast Asia and Papua New Guinea (Diptera, Empidoidea, Hybotidae)

Department of Entomology, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Rue Vautier 29, B-1000, Brussels, Belgium
Invertebrate Biodiversity, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, C.E.F., Ottawa, ON, Canada K1A 0C6
Department of Entomology, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Rue Vautier 29, B-1000, Brussels, Belgium All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection, shosse Podbel’skogo 3, 188620, St.Petersburg – Pushkin, Russia
Diptera Empidoidea Hybotidae Drapetini Chersodromia Nanodromia Papua New Guinea Thailand new species

Abstract

Two small species of Chersodromia Walker are described from lowland rain forest in Papua New Guinea and Thailand: C. flavicaput sp. nov. (Papua New Guinea, Thailand) and C. obscura sp. nov. (Thailand). The species are almost completely white, except for the contrastingly black eyes. Although the eyes touching on the face and wing venation suggest affinities with Nanodromia Grootaert, the extended gena, bristling on the apical half of the hind tibia and structure of the male genitalia indicate inclusion in Chersodromia. The new species represent the first non-marine Chersodromia reported from Southeast Asia and Papua New Guinea.

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