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Issue: Vol. 5551 No. 2: 12 Dec. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-12-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5551.2.6
Page range: 353-368
Abstract views: 141
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A review of Opalimosina Roháček, 1983 (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae) from China with new records and two new species

Department of Entomology; College of Plant Protection; China Agricultural University; 2 Yuanmingyuan West Road; Beijing 100193; China
Department of Entomology; College of Plant Protection; China Agricultural University; 2 Yuanmingyuan West Road; Beijing 100193; China
Key Laboratory of Southern Subtropical Plant Diversity; Fairylake Botanical Garden; Shenzhen & Chinese Academy of Sciences; Shenzhen 518004; China
Diptera China new species Opalimosina key

Abstract

The ten species of Opalimosina Roháček now known from China are reviewed and keyed including two new species, O. aculeata sp. nov. and O. setifera sp. nov., and two newly recorded species O. calcarifera (Roháček, 1975) and O. spathulata Hayashi, 2010.

 

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