Redefinition of Cornexcisia Fan & Kano, 2000 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), with the first description of the female of Sarcophaga kurahashii (Shinonaga & Tumrasvin, 1979)
Author
Wang, Chao
Author
Gao, Yunyun
Author
Pape, Thomas
Author
Zhang, Dong
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-09-11
4668
3
410
420
journal article
25475
10.11646/zootaxa.4668.3.6
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1175-5326
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Sarcophaga
(
Cornexcisia
)
longicornuta
(Fan & Kano)
,
comb. nov.
Cornexcisia longicornuta
Fan & Kano, 2000: 251
. Type locality:
China
,
Yunnan
, Xishuangbanna.
Holotype
♀
(SECA) (not examined).
Distribution.
Oriental:
China
(
Yunnan
).
Biology.
Unknown.
Remarks.
Known only from the
holotype
, which should be deposited in SECA according to the original description, but which was not recovered during a visit by CW to this institution.
Fan & Kano (2000)
described the very long postpedicel as having a remarkable excision on the anterolateral surface, just below the insertion of the arista. They used the remarkable length and the unique shape, which differentiates the species from all other species of
Sarcophaga
, as justification for establishing a new genus.
With
Cornexcisia longicornuta
described based on a single female, the possibility remains that it is conspecific with
S.
(
C.
)
cygnocerca
,
S
. (
C
.)
suthep
or another Oriental
Sarcophaga
known from the male sex only, and that the autapomorphic excision of the antenna is female specific. This will have to be tested through further collecting of males and females of Oriental
Sarcophaga
spp.