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Nothybus kuznetsovorum Galinskaya & Shatalkin 2015

  • 1. Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8901 - 3187
  • 2. Insect Systematics Lab, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, N 1 G 2 W 1, Ontario, Canada https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5732 - 9718
  • 3. Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China

Description

Nothybus kuznetsovorum Galinskaya & Shatalkin, 2015

(Figs 56–74, 77)

Nothybus kuznetsovorum Galinskaya & Shatalkin, 2015: 585; Galinskaya & Shatalkin, 2015: 583; Lonsdale & Marshall, 2016: 21. Holotype (³): Vietnam, Phú Tho, ZMUM.

Diagnosis. Frons (Figs 59–61) with two velvety black anterior patches. Mesonotum (Fig. 62) with irregularly 8 rows of presutural acrostichal setulae in mid-longitudinal stripe. Wing (Fig. 63) with three clear and iridescent spots arranged in a straight line; dark brown transverse stripe anteriorly wide, entirely filling apex of cell r 1; CuA 1 with brown elongate oval patch not reaching dm-cu. Fore basitarsomere (Fig. 64) white with base dark brown. Abdominal tergite 1 and anterior margin of tergite 2 yellowish orange, tergites 2 and 3 laterally with relatively wide orange regions (Fig. 56).

Material examined. CHINA: 2³ 1♀, Yunnan, Lvchun, Mt. Huanglianshan (N22.88528°, E102.271175°), 15 Apr. 2018, leg. L. Wang & X. Li (CAU); 1³, Yunnan, Mengla, Bubang Village (N21.605465°, E101.590457°), 11 May. 2009, leg. T. Zhang (CAU); 1³, Yunnan, Mengla, Menglun, Shilin (N24.777702°, E103.296508°,), 21 Apr. 2007, leg. F. Wang (CAU).

Distribution. CHINA (Yunnan) [new record]; LAOS; THAILAND; VIETNAM.

Remarks. The Chinese specimens from our study differ from the redescriptions of Lonsdale & Marshall (2016) as follows: male abdominal tergite 4 yellowish orange with medial portion, anterior margin and posterior margin narrowly brownish; tergite 6 and terminalia pale yellow (Figs 65, 66). Female abdominal tergite 6 mostly blackish brown, orange medially (Figs 58, 67).

Notes

Published as part of Zhou, Jiale, Marshall, Stephen A. & Yang, Ding, 2021, Synopsis of Nothybidae (Diptera: Brachycera) from China, with redescription of Nothybus absens Lonsdale & Marshall, pp. 201-223 in Zootaxa 4926 (2) on page 212, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4926.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4506019

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
CAU , CAU, T
Event date
2007-04-21 , 2009-05-11
Family
Nothybidae
Genus
Nothybus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Galinskaya & Shatalkin
Species
kuznetsovorum
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2007-04-21 , 2009-05-11/2018-04-15
Taxonomic concept label
Nothybus kuznetsovorum Galinskaya, 2015 sec. Zhou, Marshall & Yang, 2021

References

  • Galinskaya, T. V. & Shatalkin, A. I. (2015) New species of Nothybus Rondani, 1875 (Diptera: Nothybidae) from Vietnam with a key to Vietnamese species of the genus. Zootaxa, 4012 (3), 581 - 592. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4012.3.11
  • Lonsdale, O. & Marshall S. A. (2016) Revision of the family Nothybidae (Diptera: Schizophora). Zootaxa, 4098 (1), 1 - 42. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4098.1.1