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Issue: Vol. 4312 No. 3: 30 Aug. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-08-30
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4312.3.9
Page range: 557–564
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Two new species and one new record of the genus Metriocnemus van der Wulp (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) from Mongolia

Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Restoration, College of Fisheries and Life Science, Shanghai Ocean University,201306, Shanghai, China.
Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Restoration, College of Fisheries and Life Science, Shanghai Ocean University,201306, Shanghai, China.
Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, 219 Hodson Hall, 1980 Folwell Avenue, Saint Paul, Minnesota USA 55108.
Diptera new species Metriocnemus Chironomidae Mongolia

Abstract

The genus Metriocnemus from Mongolia is reviewed. Two new species Metriocnemus (Metriocnemus) crinitus sp. n. and Metriocnemus (Metriocnemus) ramirense sp. n. and one new record Metriocnemus (Metriocnemus) brusti Sæther, 1989 are described and illustrated based on male imagines.

 

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