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Issue: Vol. 4903 No. 3: 8 Jan. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-01-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4903.3.4
Page range: 373–392
Abstract views: 165
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Two new species of Tipula (Vestiplex) Bezzi (Diptera, Tipulidae) from Northwest China

Key Laboratory of the Pest Monitoring and Safety Control on the Crop and Forest, College of Agronomy, Xinjiang Agricultural University, Urumqi 830052, China.
College of Plant Protection, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang 110866, China.
Guangdong Key Laboratory of Animal Conservation and Resource Utilization, Guangdong Public Laboratory of Wild Animal Conservation and Utilization, Institute of Zoology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510260, China. Dpartment of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China.
Diptera key Ningxia Shaanxi taxonomy Tipulinae

Abstract

Fourteen species/subspecies of the subgenus Tipula (Vestiplex) Bezzi (1924) were previously known to occur in the Northwest China. Here, four species are added to the fauna of this region. Among them T. (V.) quadricorna sp. nov. and T. (V.) shaanxiana sp. nov. are described and illustrated as new; T. (V.) coquillettiana Alexander, 1924 and T. (V.) scripta Meigen, 1830 are reported from China for the first time. Furthermore, we re-described and illustrated the T. (V.) kuwayamai Alexander, 1921 based on additional morphological characters. A key to the species of Tipula (Vestiplex) from Northwest China is presented.

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