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Issue: Vol. 4524 No. 4: 23 Nov. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-11-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4524.4.6
Page range: 489–495
Abstract views: 63
PDF downloaded: 2

A new species of black fly with a yellow thorax in the genus Prosimulium (Diptera: Simuliidae) in Japan

Tropical Infectious Diseases Research and Education Centre (TIDREC), University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Laboratory of Medical Zoology, College of Environmental Health, Azabu University, Fuchinobe 1-17-71, Sagamihara City, Kanagawa, 229-8501 Japan, and Department of Medical Entomology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Toyama 1-23-1, Shinjuku District, Tokyo, 162-8640 Japan
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, 29634-0310, USA
Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History & Human History, Higashida 2-4-1, Yahatahigashiku, Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka, 805-0071 Japan
Diptera Biting insects biodiversity taxonomy

Abstract

A new species of black fly, Prosimulium kazukii, is described based on female, male and pupal specimens collected from central Honshu, Japan. It is placed in the Prosimulium magnum species-group, and is characterized in the female and male by yellow thoraces, and in the pupa by the frons and dorsal surface of the thorax without distinct tubercles. By these characters, it is distinguished from all four related species (P. apoina Ono, P. kalibaense Ono, P. sarurense Ono, and P. yezoense Shiraki) of the same species-group in Japan. The female of this new species was previously known as an aberrant form of P. yezoense.

 

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