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Issue: Vol. 4608 No. 2: 20 May 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-05-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4608.2.8
Page range: 345–356
Abstract views: 65
PDF downloaded: 3

Taxonomic review of the genus Compsiluroides Mesnil (Diptera: Tachinidae), with the description of a new species

Biosystematics Laboratory, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Fukuoka City 819–0395, JAPAN.
Biosystematics Laboratory, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Fukuoka City 819–0395, JAPAN.
Diptera identification key Nepal new records Oriental synonymy Taiwan

Abstract

Compsiluroides communis Mesnil, C. flavipalpis Mesnil and C. meifengensis sp. nov. are redescribed and described with illustrations. Compsiluroides proboscis Chao & Sun is treated as a junior synonym of C. communis. Variations of structures of the male postabdomen of C. communis are illustrated. The genus is newly recorded from Nepal and Taiwan. A key to the three known species of Compsiluroides is provided and their diagnostic characters are illustrated.

 

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