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Issue: Vol. 3128 No. 1: 13 Dec. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-12-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3128.1.3
Page range: 58–66
Abstract views: 42
PDF downloaded: 1

New Afrotropical and Oriental species of Micrepimera Matile (Diptera: Keroplatidae)

University of Ostrava, Chittussiho 10, CZ-710 00 Ostrava & Silesian Museum, Tyršova 1, CZ-746 01 Opava, Czech Republic
Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum and Animal Ecology Research Group of the HAS, H-1088 Budapest, Baross utca 13, Hungary
Diptera fungus gnats Sciaroidea Macrocerinae Robsonomyiini Afrotropical region Oriental region

Abstract

Two new species of Robsonomyiini (Diptera: Keroplatidae: Macrocerinae), Micrepimera berentiana sp. n. and M. pandastica sp. n., are described from southern Madagascar and northern Vietnam, respectively. This is the first record of this tribe in the Afrotropical region and from mainland Asia. Both the new species differ from M. punctipennis Matile (described from Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean) mainly in wing coloration, structure of antennae, and details of the male terminalia.

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