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Issue: Vol. 4098 No. 1: 5 Apr. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-04-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4098.1.1
Page range: 1–42
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Revision of the family Nothybidae (Diptera: Schizophora)

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, K1A 0C6, Ontario, Canada.
Insect Systematics Lab, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph,, Guelph, N1G 2W1, Ontario, Canada.
Diptera New species synonymy Acalyptratae vivipary Oriental Region Papua New Guinea Nepal

Abstract

The family Nothybidae (Diptera: Schizophora) is revised. The family consists of 11 species in the single genus Nothybus Rondani, which occurs in Papua New Guinea, Nepal and much of the Oriental Region. Three species are described as new: N. absens spec. nov. (China), N. cataractus spec. nov. (Laos, Thailand) and N. procerus spec. nov. (India). Nothybus longithorax Rondani, 1875 is treated as a junior synonym of N. longicollis (Walker, 1856). Nothybus decorus Meijere, 1924 syn. nov. is included as a junior synonym of N. lineifer Enderlein, 1922.

 

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