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Keilbachia scutica Vilkamaa, Komarova & Hippa, 2006, sp. n.

Description

Keilbachia scutica sp. n.

Material studied. Holotype mal e (NRM): N.E. BURMA (MYANMAR), Kambaiti, 7000 ft, 1.vi.1934, R. Malaise. Paratype (NRM): Same data as holotype but 6800 ft, 7.iv.1934, 1 ɗ.

Description (male). Head (Fig. 1 F). Eye bridge 2–3 facets wide. Prefrons with 12 setae, clypeus with 1 setae. Palpomere 1 with 1 seta. Length/width of flagellomere 4 of antenna 2.00. Thorax. Anterior pronotum with 4 setae, episternum 1 with 5 setae. Wing. Length 1.8 mm, width/length 0.55, c/ w 0.55, R1/R 0.70. r­m with 2 setae. Legs (Fig. 4 B). Length of spur/width of tibia 1.25. Abdomen. Sternite 8 with 9 setae. Hypopygium (Fig. 7 A, B). Female: Unknown.

Discussion. Keilbachia scutica is similar to K. flagrispina Mohrig by having a long mesial megaseta and by having the tegmen with straight lateral sides and apex. Keilbachia scutica can be distinguished from K. flagrispina by having the sensillar pit of the maxillary palp much wider (Figs. 1 F, 2B), and the basal body of the mesial megaseta of the gonostylus simple, not basally narrowed (Fig. 7).

Notes

Published as part of Vilkamaa, Pekka, Komarova, Lyudmila A. & Hippa, Heikki, 2006, The genus Keilbachia Mohrig (Diptera: Sciaridae) in a biodiversity hot spot: new sympatric species from Kambaiti, Burma, pp. 39-55 in Zootaxa 1123 on page 50, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.171760

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Biodiversity

Family
Sciaridae
Genus
Keilbachia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Species
scutica
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Keilbachia scutica Vilkamaa, Komarova & Hippa, 2006