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Amiota nagatai

Description

Key to species of the nagatai group

1. Hind trochanter with a lobe-shaped process.................................................................................... nagatai group.....2

- Hind trochanter without lobe-shaped process............................................................................... other Amiota species

2. Vertical lobe of gonopod apically with a pair of horn-like processes. ......................................... nagatai Okada, 1971

- Vertical lobe of gonopod apically round, without any processes. ............................................................................... 3

3. Hind tibia distinctly expanded on subapical part of dorsoposterior surface. ....... protuberantis Cao & Chen, sp. nov.

- Hind tibia not expanded subapically............................................................................................................................ 4

4. Lobe-shaped process of hindleg trochanter not black ............................................................. okinawana Okada, 1971

- Lobe-shaped process of hindleg trochanter black medially.......................................................................................... 5

5. Parameres and aedeagus nearly separated; aedeagus nearly triangular. ......................... bachlii Cao & Chen, sp. nov.

- Parameres and aedeagus mostly fused; aedeagus nearly rod-shaped ........................................................................... 6

6. Parameres distinctly longer than aedeagus. ...................................................................... kimurai Chen & Toda, 2001

- Parameres distinctly shorter than aedeagus ............................................................... chengyuae Cao & Chen, sp. nov.

Notes

Published as part of He, Xiaofang, Jiang, Jian-Jun, Cao, Hua-Zhi & Chen, Hong-Wei, 2009, Taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of the Amiota nagatai species group (Diptera: Drosophilidae), pp. 53-61 in Zootaxa 2193 on page 59, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189442

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Drosophilidae
Genus
Amiota
Species
nagatai
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Okada, T. (1971) A revision and taxometric analysis of the genus Amiota Loew of Japan and adjacent countries (Diptera, Drosophilidae). Kontyu, Tokyo, 39, 82 - 98.
  • Chen, H. W. & Toda, M. J. (2001) A revision of the Asian and European species in the subgenus Amiota Loew (Diptera, Drosophilidae) and establishment of species-groups based on phylogenetic analysis. Journal of natural history, 35, 1571 - 1563.