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Issue: Vol. 3946 No. 1: 8 Apr. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-04-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3946.1.6
Page range: 125–132
Abstract views: 27
PDF downloaded: 1

Ngirhaphium Evenhuis & Grootaert from southern Thailand (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) with the description of a new species

Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkhla University, Hat Yai campus, Kho Hong, Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand, 90112.
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkhla University, Hat Yai campus, Kho Hong, Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand, 90112.
Entomology, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium.
Dolichopodidae Ngirhaphium new species mangrove Thailand

Abstract

The genus Ngirhaphium Evenhuis & Grootaert, 2002 is reported for the first time from Thailand in particular from mangroves on the coast of the Andaman Sea in southern Thailand. Three species were found: N. murphyi Evenhuis & Grootaert, 2002, N. sivasothii Grootaert & Puniamoorthy, 2014 and N. chutamasae sp. nov. The latter species is described and illustrated and a key to all four known species is provided. COI barcode data showed that the new species is most closely related to N. murphyi with a genetic distance of 7%. The distance with the other species is 11 to 12%.