Taxonomic assessment of Chirosiomima Hennig (Diptera: Anthomyiidae), with proposal of a new genus for Hylemyia curtigena Ringdahl

VERNER MICHELSEN

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3790.1.4

Issue: Vol. 3790 No. 1: 16 Apr. 2014

Type: Article

Published: 2014-04-16

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3790.1.4

Page range: 86–102

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**Taxonomic assessment of Chirosiomima Hennig (Diptera: Anthomyiidae), with proposal of a new genus for Hylemyia curtigena Ringdahl**

VERNER MICHELSEN⁺⁻

Natural History Museum of Denmark, Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Anthomyiid flies Palearctic Afrotropical new genus new combinations

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Abstract

The four nominal species currently included in the anthomyiid genus Chirosiomima Hennig, 1966 are critically assessed and redescribed. It is shown that the type species of Chirosiomima was originally misidentified. Chirosiomima obscurinervis (Emden, 1941) is resurrected from synonymy of C. gestroi (Séguy, 1930). Chirosiomima collini Ackland, 1968 is transferred to Botanophila Lioy (comb. nov.) and C. curtigena (Ringdahl, 1935) to Ringdahlia gen. nov. (comb. nov.). The previously unknown male of C. gestroi and female of R. curtigena (Ringdahl) are described.