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Issue: Vol. 1087 No. 1: 29 Nov. 2005
Type: Articles
Published: 2005-11-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1087.1.6
Page range: 59–64
Abstract views: 46
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A new species of Schwenckfeldina (Diptera: Sciaridae) from Japan

Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History, Iryuda 499, Odawara, Kanagawa, 250-0031 Japan Address correspondence to Sanhaimu-Hiramoto A-201, Hazawa-tyo 350-43, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 221-0863 Japan
Diptera Sciaridae Schwenckfeldina new species Japan

Abstract

Schwenckfeldina lobocoxa sp. n. is described and illustrated, and represents the first record of this primitive genus of sciarid flies from Japan. The morphology of this new species is compared with that of related congeners from the Holarctic Region.

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