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Minilimosina (Svarciella) v-atrum Villeneuve 1917

Description

Minilimosina (Svarciella) v-atrum (Villeneuve, 1917)

(Figs. 101–102)

Leptocera (Limosina) v-atrum Villeneuve, 1917: 142 [both sexes]. Type locality: Germany, Berlin, Strausberg. LT male, designated by Roháček, 2001: 472 (MNHN).

Limosina (Scotophilella) splendens Duda, 1928: 167 [female]. Type locality: Poland, Wustung bei Habelschwerdt [= Bystrzyca Kłodska]. LT female, designated by Roháček, 1983: 33 (ZMHB).

Minilimosina (Svarciella) splendens.— Roháček, 1982: 278 –280 [illustr.]; Roháček, 1983: 33 –34 [generic combination, redescription, phylogenetic notes]; Roháček & Marshall, 1988: 244 [key].

Diagnosis. Body colour shining black. Eye 2.7 times as high as gena. Two pairs of dorsocentral setae. Antennae dark brown. Apical scutellar seta 1.3 times as long as scutellum length. Cs2 0.7 times as long as Cs3. Trochanters yellow, tarsi dark brown. Tergites 1–5 shining black. Sternite 5 of male (Figs. 101, 102) with deflexed apically bifurcate posteromedial process and row of small spines in front of it.

Materal examined. (LKLSU, in alcohol): 2 males: China, Jiangxi, County Anfu, Shizhikou, Malaise trap, 160–180 m, 20.Apr.2011, Tao Li; 1 male: China, Jiangxi, County Anfu, Shizhikou, Malaise trap, 200–210 m, 13.Apr.2011, Tao Li; 3 males: China, Jiangxi, County Anfu, Shizhikou, Malaise trap, 200–210 m, 2.May.2011, Tao Li; 1 male, 1 female: China, Jiangxi, County Anfu, Baishakeng, Malaise trap, 120–140 m, 16.May.2011, Tao Li.

Comments. The species (formerly reported under its synonymous name M. splendens, while the name M. vatrum auct. was applied to species correctly named M. guestphalica, see Roháček 2001) is recorded in the Oriental Region for the first time, previously only distributed in the Palaearctic Region.

Distribution. Oriental: China (Jiangxi); Palaearctic: 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 25-26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4007.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/289278

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References

  • Villeneuve, J. (1917) Description d'especes nouvelles de la famille des Cypselidae (Borboridae) (Dipt.). Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France, Paris, 1917, 139 - 144.
  • Duda, O. (1928) Bemerkungen zur Systematik und kologie einiger europischer Limosinen und Beschreibung von Scotophilella splendens n. sp. (Diptera). Konowia, 7, 162 - 174.
  • 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.
  • Rohacek, J. (1982) A monograph and re-classification of the previous genus Limosina Macquart (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae) of Europe. Part I. Beitrage zur Entomologie, Berlin, 32, 195 - 282.
  • Rohacek, J. & Marshall, S. A. (1988) A review of Minilimosina (Svarciella) Rohacek, with descriptions of fourteen new species (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae). Insecta Mundi, 2, 241 - 282.