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Sphegina (Asiosphegina) crassispina Hippa, van Steenis & Mutin 2015

  • 1. Research Associate, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden; Hof der Toekomst 48, 3823 HX Amersfoort, the Netherlands.
  • 2. Zoological Museum, Biodiversity Unit, FI- 20014 University of Turku, Finland.
  • 3. Amur State University of Humanities and Pedagogy, Komsomolsk-na-Amure, 681000, Russia.

Description

Sphegina (Asiosphegina) crassispina Hippa, van Steenis & Mutin, 2015

Figs 23B, 25D, 33A

Sphegina (Asiosphegina) crassispina Hippa, van Steenis & Mutin, 2015: 16. Type locality: Kambaiti, Myanmar (holotype, , NHRS).

Material examined

CHINA • 1 ; “ CHINA Sichuan / Mt EMEI / 17–21.IX.1985 ”; “ 4 km N / XIANFENG / 1650 m ”; NBC.

Remarks

Earlier only known by the type material from Myanmar, Kambaiti (Hippa et al. 2015). The specimen from China fits well within the variation range exhibited by the type material except for the frons which is more extensively shiny and the frontal prominence which is slightly more protruding.

Notes

Published as part of Steenis, Jeroen Van, Hippa, Heikki & Mutin, Valeri A., 2018, Revision of the Oriental species of the genus Sphegina Meigen, 1822 (Diptera: Syrphidae), pp. 1-198 in European Journal of Taxonomy 489 on page 61, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.489, http://zenodo.org/record/3830537

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
NBC
Event date
1985-09-17
Verbatim event date
1985-09-17/21
Scientific name authorship
Hippa, van Steenis & Mutin
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Sphegina
Species
crassispina
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Sphegina (Asiosphegina) crassispina Hippa, 2015 sec. Steenis, Hippa & Mutin, 2018

References

  • Hippa H., van Steenis J. & Mutin V. A. 2015. The genus Sphegina Meigen (Diptera, Syrphidae) in a biodiversity hotspot: the thirty-six sympatric species in Kambaiti, Myanmar. Zootaxa 3954 (1): 1 - 67. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3954.1.1