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Issue: Vol. 4425 No. 3: 31 May 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-05-31
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4425.3.11
Page range: 582–588
Abstract views: 39
PDF downloaded: 3

A new species of the genus Clistoabdominalis Skevington (Diptera: Pipunculidae) from Iran, with a key to the Western Palaearctic species of the Clistoabdominalis ruralis group 

Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, Iran.
Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden, Museum of Zoology, Dresden, Germany.
Diptera Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forest identification key Shast-Kola Beech forest

Abstract

During our studies on the Diptera fauna of the Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forest, Golestan province, Iran, a new species of the genus Clistoabdominalis (Pipunculidae) was identified. In the present paper we name, describe and illustrate Clistoabdominalis hyrcania sp. nov.. An identification key to the males of the Clistoabdominalis ruralis species group from the Western Palaearctic region is provided.

 

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