Synopsis of Nothybidae (Diptera: Brachycera) from China, with redescription of Nothybus absens Lonsdale & Marshall
Author
Zhou, Jiale
0000-0002-8901-3187
Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8901 - 3187
Author
Marshall, Stephen A.
0000-0002-5732-9718
Insect Systematics Lab, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, N 1 G 2 W 1, Ontario, Canada https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5732 - 9718
Author
Yang, Ding
Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-02-05
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Nothybus kempi
(
Brunetti, 1913
)
(
Figs 38–55
,
76
)
Psila kempi
Brunetti, 1913: 187
.
Syntypes
(3
³♀
):
India
,
Assam
, depository unknown (lost?).
Nothybus kempi
:
Enderlein, 1922: 175
;
Aczél, 1955: 9
;
Frey, 1958: 39
;
Steyskal, 1977: 30
;
Meier
et al
., 1999: 209
;
Papp
et al
., 2006: 176
;
Galinskaya & Shatalkin, 2015: 583
;
Lonsdale & Marshall, 2016: 19
.
Diagnosis.
Frons (
Figs 40–42
) with two velvety black anterior patches. Mesonotum (
Fig. 43
) with irregularly 6 rows of presutural acrostichal setulae in mid-longitudinal stripe. Wing (
Fig. 44
) with dark brown transverse stripe extending from C to CuA
1
along dm-cu; three clear and strongly iridescent spots arranged in a straight line; CuA
1
with brown elongate oval spot extending into cell dm and not reaching dm-cu. Fore basitarsomere (
Fig. 45
) white or whitish-yellow with base dark brown. Abdominal tergite 1 and anterior margin of tergite 2 yellowish orange, tergite 3 dark brown, tergite 4 with orange lateral margin (
Figs 46–48
).
Material examined
.
CHINA
: 3³
2♀
,
Yunnan
,
Dehong
,
Ruili
(
N24.111210°
,
E97.986650°
),
13 May. 2018
, leg.
B. Zhang
(
CAU
)
.
Distribution
.
CHINA
(
Yunnan
) [
new record
],
INDIA
,
LAOS
,
THAILAND
,
VIETNAM
.
Remarks.
The Chinese specimens from our study differ from the redescriptions of
Lonsdale & Marshall (2016)
as follows: male abdominal tergite 4 laterally with large orange regions, tergite 6 and terminalia light yellow (
Figs 46, 47
). Female abdominal tergite 6 dark brown (
Figs 39
,
48
).