First Anthomyzidae (Diptera) from China: a new genus, six new species and new records
Author
Roháček, Jindřich
text
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2018
2018-04-25
58
1
35
76
journal article
10.2478/aemnp-2018-0007
5397a3ac-ffb7-408e-ab5b-50be49c2331d
1804-6487
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Amygdalops
Lamb, 1914
The genus
Amygdalops
Lamb, 1914
is the most diverse group of
Anthomyzidae
in the tropical belt of the Afrotropical (
ROHÁČEK 2004
) and Oriental Regions (
ROHÁČEK 2008
) and a few species of
Amygdalops
also extend into the Palaearctic Region (
ROHÁČEK 2006
,
2009
). Therefore, several species have been expected to occur in
China
, particularly in its Oriental part. The two species recorded below from
Hainan
Island. clearly belong to the Oriental fauna of
Amygdalops
. Their syntopic occurrence on this island revealed not only a new species but also a mistake in the previous affiliation of the female sex of
Amygdalops bisinus
Roháček, 2008
. Under the latter name, two species were mixed by
ROHÁČEK (2008: 341–345)
due to similarity of the distinctively sinuate male gonostyli and, moreover, the female described by him as
A. bisinus
belongs to another (new) species because the true female of
A. bisinus
was unknown at that time. To address the problem of correct male-female affiliation, the specimens from
Hainan
I. were studied using the barcoding area of COI (see material and methods and
Fig. 31
). Results of this analysis revealed that the female with more complex structures of the terminalia belongs to
A. bisinus
(described below) while the other female is conspecific with the male of a new species,
A. sevciki
sp. nov.
Subsequently, all
paratypes
of
A. bisinus
as originally labelled by
ROHÁČEK (2008)
, have been revised and those belonging to
A. sevciki
removed and included in the type series of the latter species.