Muscidae of Nepal (Diptera) : I. Muscinae, Stomoxyinae and Phaoniinae

Abstract

Male: Abdomen yellow, median vitta narrow; median vitta on 2nd tergite slightly dilated posteriorly and median vitta on 3rd tergite more than twice as long as wide at middle; 5th tergite largely infuscated, Female: Second tergite and lateral part of 3rd tergite wholly pale..

Taxonomic and faunistic notes on Hydrotaea unispinosa Stein, 1898 (Diptera: Muscidae)

“…In the key for Chinese Hydrotaea [Xue et al, 2007] H. unispinosa is said to have the katepimeron hairy and all our specimens from India, Thailand and Vietnam also have the katepimeron with 2-5 distinct setulae. But the setulae on the katepimeron were not mentioned neither in Stein's [1898] description of H. unispinosa nor in Shinonaga's [Shinonaga, Singh, 1994] description of H. gandakiana. Besides records of the Nearctic H. unispinosa from the Oriental region also seemed doubtful.…”

“…Treating Hydrotaea specimens collected in last years and preserved in Zoological Museum of Moscow University (ZMUM), we identified the series collected in the North part of the Oriental region as Hydrotaea gandakiana Shinonaga, 1994 described from Nepal, with several remarkable modifications of hind leg which make this species easily recognizable. Later on we used the key for Chinese Hydrotaea [Xue et al, 2007] and came to Hydrotaea unispinosa Stein, 1898, but this species was described from the Nearctic region [Stein, 1898].…”

“…: 22.35°N 103.77°E, 1900 m asl, 5.IV.2011, 1#, A. Ozerov, 22.34°N 103.78°E, 2070 m a.s.l., 30.IV.2013, T. Galinskaya, 1#, 22.35°N 103.77°E, 1900 m a.s.l., 22.V.2014, A. Ozerov, 1#, 22.389°N 103.786°E, 1650 m, 23.V. Hydrotaea unispinosa Stein, 1898: 1 -# from India, Uttarakhand; 2 -# from USA, WA (ZMHU); 3 -setulae on # katepimeron; 4 -# hind leg (byShinonaga & Singh [1994] as H. gandakiana); 5 -# fore leg; 6 -# hind leg (byHsue [1976] as H. silva).Рис 1-6. Hydrotaea unispinosa Stein, 1898: 1 -# из India, Uttarakhand; 2 -# из USA, WA (ZMHU); 3 -щетинки на катэпимероне #; 4 -# задняя нога (поShinonaga & Singh [1994] как H. gandakiana); 5 -# передняя нога; 6 -# задняя нога (поHsue [1976] как H. silva).…”

Three New Species of Shoot Fly,Atherigonaspp., from Northern Thailand

“…Using keys for identification (Shinonaga and Singh 1994; Pont and Magpayo 1995; Shinonaga and Thinh 2000), these collections revealed three species that had never been described, belonging to the subgenus Acritochaeta. These three species are new to science, based on the morphological difference of males from previous investigations.…”

Three new species of the genus <i>Drymeia</i> Meigen (Diptera: Muscidae) from the Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) Plateau, China

“…Zhang (1996a, 1996b) and Xue and Chao (1998) recorded 40 species of Drymeia from China (including the five species that are transferred later in this paper to the genus Spilogona Schnabl), giving a new total of 64 species for the Palaearctic region. There are a few Oriental species (Pont 1977, Shinonaga & Singh 1994) and a Neotropical one (Carvalho et al 2002). No species of Drymeia are known from the Afrotropical (Pont 1980) or Australasian (Pont 1989) regions.…”