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Minilimosina (Minilimosina) fungicola Haliday 1836

Description

Minilimosina (Minilimosina) fungicola (Haliday, 1836)

(Figs. 11–18)

Limosina fungicola Haliday, 1836: 330 [both sexes?]. Type locality: Ireland, Holywood. LT male, designated by Roháček, 1983: 39 (NMID).

Minilimosina (Minilimosina) fungicola.— Su, 2011: 71 –72 [redescription], 182 [Figs. 36 a–h] [male].

Diagnosis. Body colour brownish black. Eye twice as high as gena. One pair of dorsocentral setae. Apical scutellar seta 1.4 times as long as scutellum length. Wing with black Cs1 and Cs2. Cs2 0.9 times as long as Cs3. Sternite 5 of male (Fig. 18) with a blunt, hairy posteromedial process. Gonostylus (Figs. 13–16) with a posteroventral spine.

Materal examined. (LKLSU, in alcohol): 4 males: China, Hebei, Mt. Xiaowutai, Mt. Dongling, sweep, 1200– 2000 m, 28.Jun.2009, Lixin Su; 2 males: China, Ningxia, Mt. Liu-p'an, Fengtai, sweep, 2700 m, 21.Jun.2008, Lixin Su; 1 male: China, Ningxia, Mt. Liu-p'an, Guamagou, sweep, 2000 m, 5.Jul.2008,Lixin Su; 1 male: China, Ningxia, Mt. Liu-p'an, Dongshanpo, sweep, 2200 m, 27.Jun.2008, Lixin Su; 6 males: China, Jilin, Mt. Changbai, sweep, 900–1100 m, 30.Jul.2008, Lixin Su; 1 male: China, Zhejiang, Mt. Tianmu, Xianrentai, sweep, 1505 m, 29.Jun.2013, Lixin Su; 7 males, 2 females: China, Shaanxi, City Shangluo,County Zashui, Town Yingpan, Huanghualing, Sweep, 1935 m, 14.Jul.2013, Yunlong Cai; 1 male: China, Shaanxi, City Shangluo, County Shanyang, Tianzhu, sweep, 1807 m, 21.Jul.2013, Yunlong Cai.

Comments. The species is recorded for the Oriental Region for the first time, it has previously been known only in the Nearctic and Palaearctic Regions.

Distribution. Nearctic: Canada, USA; Oriental: China (Shaanxi, Zhejiang); Palaearctic: China (Hebei, Jilin, Ningxia), Europe.

Notes

Published as part of Su, Lixin, Liu, Guangchun & Xu, Jie, 2015, A review of Minilimosina Roháček (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae) from China, pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 4007 (1) on pages 6-7, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4007.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/289278

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References

  • Haliday, A. H. (1836) British species of the Dipterous tribe Sphaeroceridae. Entomological Magazine, 3, 315 - 336.
  • Rohacek, J. (1983) A monograph and re-classification of the previous genus Limosina Macquart (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae) of Europe. Part II. Beitrage zur Entomologie, Berlin, 33, 3 - 195.
  • Su, L. X. (2011) Lesser Dung Flies. Liaoning University Press, Shenyang, Liaoning, China, 229 pp. [in Chinese]