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Issue: Vol. 5352 No. 3: 4 Oct. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-10-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5352.3.3
Page range: 381-398
Abstract views: 243
PDF downloaded: 25

A taxonomic study on the genus Stichillus (Diptera: Phoridae) from South Korea, with a key to species from East Asia

Interdisciplinary Program in Smart Agriculture; College of Agriculture & Life Sciences; Kangwon National University; Chuncheon 24341; Korea
Interdisciplinary Program in Smart Agriculture; College of Agriculture & Life Sciences; Kangwon National University; Chuncheon 24341; Korea; Department of Plant Medicine; Division of Bio-resource Sciences; College of Agriculture & Life Sciences; Kangwon National University; Chuncheon 24341; Korea
Diptera key Korea new species scuttle fly Stichillus taxonomy

Abstract

The South Korean species of the genus Stichillus Enderlein are reviewed and four species are newly recognized. One of them, S. koreanus sp. nov., is described as new to science and the other three species, viz. S. cylindratus Nakayama & Shima, S. japonicus (Matsumura) and S. spinosus Liu & Chou are new to South Korea. Detailed descriptions with photographs of four Korean Stichillus species, and a revised key to males of ten species from East Asia except Mongolia and North Korea are provided.

 

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