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Issue: Vol. 1465 No. 1: 3 May. 2007
Type: Articles
Published: 2007-05-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1465.1.3
Page range: 31–38
Abstract views: 34
PDF downloaded: 1

First record of the genus Xenoplatyura Malloch, 1928 from China,  with descriptions of three new species (Diptera: Keroplatidae)

Provincial Key Laboratory of Forest Protection, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan 625014, China Institute of Forest Protection, Zhejiang Forestry College, Lin’an, Zhejiang 311300, China
Provincial Key Laboratory of Forest Protection, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, Sichuan 625014, China
Institute of Forest Protection, Zhejiang Forestry College, Lin’an, Zhejiang 311300, China
Institute of Forest Protection, Zhejiang Forestry College, Lin’an, Zhejiang 311300, China
Diptera Keroplatidae Xenoplatyura taxonomy new species China

Abstract

Three new species of the genus Xenoplatyura Malloch are described from China: X. sichuanensis Cao et Xu, n. sp.; X. lata Cao et Xu, n. sp.; X. bifida Cao et Xu, n. sp.. Another species, X. octosegmentata Brunetti is newly recorded in China. A key to Chinese species of Xenoplatyura is given.

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