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Three new species and new records of Clastobasis Skuse (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from Japan and the Kuril Islands 

Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Kreutzwaldi st 5D, 51006 Tartu, Estonia.
Diptera Eastern Palaearctic fungus gnats key Leiinae new species taxonomy

Abstract

Three new Clastobasis Skuse species are described: C. ainuorum sp. n. (Kuril Islands, Iturup), C. kanabo sp. n. (Japan, Honshū) and C. menguali sp. n. (Japan, Honshū). The new species are figured, photographed and their systematics discussed. New records are provided for C. loici Chandler and C. subalternans Zaitzev, both from Japan (Honshū). The number of Palaearctic Clastobasis species is set up at eight including six of them restricted only to the Eastern Palaearctic. Clastobasis loici, previously known only from Europe, is described to have a Trans-Palaearctic distribution. A key to the Palearctic species of Clastobasis is provided and the distribution shortly discussed.

 

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