The tanytarsine genus Stempellinella was erected by Brundin (1947), with Stempellinella saltuum (Goetghebuer, 1921) as type species. Until now, the genus has eight recorded species from the Holarctic region. Ashe & Cranston (1990) list five species in their Palaearctic catalogue. Among these, S. cuneipennis (Edwards, 1929) has only been recorded as female. Stempellinella tamaseptima from Japan was first described as Tanytarsus by Sasa (1980), and was later transferred to Stempellinella by Kobayashi (1990). Stempellinella reissi was described by Casas & Vilchez-Quero (1991) from Southern Spain, and S. leptocelloides from Ontario, Canada by Webb (1969). The latter species was originally placed in Stempellina but later examination of the type material confirms the placement in Stempellinella (T. Ekrem pers. comm.) In this paper, two new species from Southern China (Oriental Region) are described. M, The morphological nomenclature follows Saether (1980) with the additions and corrections given by Saether (1990). The material examined was mounted on slides following the procedure outlined by Saether (1969). Measurements are given as ranges followed by a mean when there are two or more measurements, followed by the number measured (n) in parentheses. Type specimens are deposited in the Department of Biology, Nankai University, China ().
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