Taxonomy of Morellia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Muscidae): revision of the subgenera Morellia s. str. and Parapyrellia Townsend Author Pamplona, Denise Author Nihei, Silvio S. Author Couri, Márcia S. Author Pont, Adrian C. text Zootaxa 2016 4163 1 1 110 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4163.1.1 69b1046e-47bc-4f26-b32c-97d79da7a35d 1175-5326 259278 930AF345-15AD-443A-A3AE-328178ECB6C9 39. Morellia ( M .) tibetana Fan, 1974 ( Figs 157–161 ) Morellia hortorum ssp. tibetana Fan, 1974 : 95 . Type locality: CHINA , Xizang [ Tibet ], Lhasa. Holotype Ƌ, SIPPE . Descriptive remarks. Originally described as a subspecies of M. hortorum , M. tibetana was recently raised to full species rank by Fan (2008) . Similar to M. hortorum , the male differing as follows: scutellum with 1 basal, 1 latero-discal, 2 preapical (weak) and 1 apical pairs of setae. Wing with one faint spot in costal cell from base until after the humeral crossvein. Seventeen pairs of frontal setae. Mid tibia with an anterodorsal comb-like row of shorter setulae on basal twothirds; hind femur with an anterodorsal row of shorter setae; hind tibia with an anteroventral row of shorter setae and with anteroventral and anterodorsal setae on apical half, and 2 anterodorsal setae on basal half; dm-cu sinuous; posterior margin of sternite 5 concave and with few setae ( Fig. 157 ). Terminalia. Apical third of cercal plate bare; cercal plate ventrally with 2 strong spines; surstylus with many setae on apical half ( Figs 158–160 ); basiphallus long; aedeagus with spicules on anterior membrane of distiphallus; gonopod with 1 long and strong seta on basal third and 1 seta on apical third; paramere with some setae apically and a few setae on middle third ( Fig. 161 ). Female. Unknown. Material examined. CHINA : locality not deciphered [in Chinese], 5.vii.1977 , 1 Ƌ ( BMNH ). Distribution. PALAEARCTIC: China ( Xizang , Shanxi ).