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Issue: Vol. 4571 No. 4: 28 Mar. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-03-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4571.4.6
Page range: 544–550
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New or little-known Diamesinae (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Oriental China

College of Life Science, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
College of Life Science, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
College of Life Science, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 100 let Vladivostoku 159, 690022 Vladivostok, Russia. Far Eastern State Technical Fisheries University, Lugovaya 52b, 690087 Vladivostok, Russia
Diptera Chironomidae Diamesinae Diamesa Linevitshia Sasayusurika new species Oriental China

Abstract

Morphological description for adult male of a new species Diamesa qiangi sp. nov. and redescription for adult males of the little-known species Linevitshia prima Makarchenko and Sasayusurika nigatana (Tokunaga) of subfamily Diamesinae from the Oriental Region of China are given.

 

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