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Issue: Vol. 4422 No. 1: 22 May 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-05-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4422.1.4
Page range: 78–84
Abstract views: 51
PDF downloaded: 1

Scorpiurus aramoana (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), a new species from New Zealand

Australian Museum, 1 William Street, Sydney NSW 2010 Australia.
Otago Museum, 419 Great King Street, Dunedin 9059, New Zealand.
Diptera Dolichopodidae Scorpiurus New Zealand Hydrophorinae

Abstract

The New Zealand endemic genus Scorpiurus Parent is known from marine littoral habitats. A new species, S. aramoana sp. nov., is described from coastal Otago of the South Island. Males have diagnostic flattened and modified tarsomeres on legs I and II. A key is provided to the New Zealand genera of Hydrophorinae and the three described species of Scorpiurus.

 

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