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Issue: Vol. 1497 No. 1: 4 Jun. 2007
Type: Articles
Published: 2007-06-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1497.1.3
Page range: 35–40
Abstract views: 40
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First record of the tribe Keroplatini from China, with descriptions of two new species (Diptera: Keroplatidae)

Institute of Forest Protection, Zhejiang Forestry College, Lin’an, Zhejiang 311300, 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
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
Sichuan Provincial Key Laboratory of Ecological Forestry Engineering, Sichuan Agriculture University, Ya'an, Sichuan 625014, China
Diptera Keroplatidae Keroplatini new species China

Abstract

This is the first report of the tribe Keroplatini in China. Two new species are described: Platyroptilon wui, Cao, Xu et Evenhuis, n. sp. and Setostylus chinensis Cao, Evenhuis et Zhou n. sp. Another species, Heteropterna septemtrionalis (Okada), is newly recorded in China.

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