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Issue: Vol. 4365 No. 5: 21 Dec. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-12-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4365.5.3
Page range: 559–570
Abstract views: 77
PDF downloaded: 2

The first description of the larva and pupa of crane fly genus Phyllolabis Osten Sacken, 1877 (Diptera, Limoniidae, Limnophilinae), with information for understanding the phylogenetic relationships and systematical position of the genus

Institute of Biology, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, Sauletekio str. 7, LT-10257 Vilnius, Lithuania, Research Associate, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA1910-1195
Department of Entomology, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia PA 19103-1195, USA.
Diptera Phyllolabis Mongolia immatures phylogeny

Abstract

Description, illustrations and habitat characteristics are given for the previously unknown last instar larvae and pupae of the genus Phyllolabis Osten Sacken, 1877 of the eastern palaearctic species Phyllolabis mongolica Podenas and Gelhaus, 2012 (Diptera: Limoniidae, Limnophilinae). Diagnostic features and phylogenetic relationships are discussed. Characters of the immatures stages of Phyllolabis shows similarities with the genus Austrolimnophila, Epiphragma and Dactylolabis and based on this investigation Phyllolabis is moved back into subfamily Limnophilinae s.l., albeit as one of its basal lineages.

 

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