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Issue: Vol. 4250 No. 3: 5 Apr. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-04-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.42450.3.6
Page range: 296–300
Abstract views: 42
PDF downloaded: 1

Two new species of fungus gnats (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from Kunashir Island, Kuril Islands

Moscow City Pedagogical University, Institute of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Biology, Ecology and Methodics of Biological Education, Chechulina str. 1. Moscow 111568, Russia.
Diptera taxonomy morphology biodiversity Sciaroidea new species

Abstract

Two new species of Mycetophilidae (Diptera), Clastobasis subalternans sp. n. and Phthinia kurilensis sp. n. are described from Kunashir I. (South Kuril Is.). Their relationships with other species of Clastobasis Skuse and Phthinia Winnertz are briefly discussed.

 

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