A study of the genus Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Muscidae), with descriptions of six new species from China
1 Institute of Entomology, Shenyang Normal University, Huanghe North Street 253, Huanggu District, Shenyang
110034, China
2 Institute of Paleontological, Shenyang Normal University, Huanghe North Street 253, Huanggu District, Shenyang
110034, China
Abstract
This paper provides the characters of genus Limnophora (Diptera: Muscidae) and a key to the Chinese species of Limnophora, six new species collected from Hainan Island of China, namely, L. brevispatula, n. sp., L. cothurnosurstyla, n. sp., L. dyadocerca, n. sp., L. longitarsis, n. sp., L. nuditibia, n. sp. and L. ypocerca, n. sp. are diagnosed, described and illustrated, a new record species in China, namely, L. argentifrons (Shinonaga et Kano, 1977), is also included.
摘要
本文提供了双翅目蝇科池蝇属的特征及中国池蝇属的分种检索表，描述了池蝇属的六个新种，即短匙池蝇 L. brevispatula, n. sp., 靴侧叶池蝇 L. cothurnosurstyla, n. sp., 重叶池蝇 (L. dyadocerca, n. sp., 长跗池蝇 L. longitarsis, n. sp., 裸胫池蝇 L. nuditibia, n. sp., 和亚叶池蝇 L. ypocerca, n. sp., 并给出了六新种与中国一个新纪录种（银额池蝇 L. argentifrons (Shinonaga et Kano, 1977) 的特征图.
Keywords: China, Diptera, Muscidae, Limnophora, key, new species, new record
Correspondence:
a xwqfly@sina.com,
b baishuchong@163.com,
c dong_1020@163.com, *Corresponding author
Editor: Peter H. Kerr was Editor of this paper.
Received: 9 January 2010 | Accepted: 18 November 2011 | Published: 6 February 2012
Copyright: This is an open access paper. We use the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license that permits unrestricted use, provided that the paper is properly attributed.
ISSN: 1536-2442 | Volume 12, Number 17
Xue W-Q, Bai S-C, Dong W-X. 2012. A study of the genus Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Muscidae), with descriptions of six new species from China. Journal of Insect Science 12:17 available online: insectscience.org/12.17
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