Katatopygia gen. n., a monophyletic branch segregated from Boletina (Diptera, Mycetophilidae)
Author
Martinsson, Svante
Author
Kjaerandsen, Jostein
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ZooKeys
2012
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.175.2388
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.175.2388
1313-2970-175-37
Katatopygia hissarica (Zaitzev & Polevoi, 2002)
comb. n.
Boletina hissarica
Zaitzev & Polevoi, 2002: 640 (figs 1, 3 & 9)
Diagnostic characters
.Very similar to
Katatopygia erythropyga
, from which it can be separated only on details of the male terminalia. Zaitzev & Polevoi (2002) used four key characters to distinguish them: 1) Apical process of the gonostylus slightly bolder and with more developed unsclerotized area around base of this process; 2) Dentations on the inner surface of gonostylus being restricted to distal part, not reaching the curve basally; 3) Apical part of tergite IX less sclerotized; 4) Details of aedeagus as figured by them.
Distribution.
The species is known only from the holotype from Tadzhikistan.
Remarks.
The species limit between
Katatopygia erythropyga
and
Katatopygia hissarica
seems vague, and it is possibly that
Katatopygia hissarica
will fall inside the variation of
Katatopygia erythropyga
when a wider range of material is studied.
Type material.
The holotype is deposited in the Zoological Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia - not studied.