A Study of the Genus Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Muscidae), with Descriptions of Six new species from China

Wan-Qi Xue; Shu-Chong Bai; Wen-Xiu Dong

doi:10.1673/031.012.1701

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1 February 2012 A Study of the Genus Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Muscidae), with Descriptions of Six new species from China

Wan-Qi Xue, Shu-Chong Bai, Wen-Xiu Dong

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J. of Insect Science, 12(17):1-20 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1673/031.012.1701

Abstract

This paper provides the characters of genus Limnophora (Diptera: Muscidae) and a key to the Chinese species of Limnophora, six new species collected from Hainan Island of China, namely, L. brevispatula, n. sp., L. cothurnosurstyla, n. sp., L. dyadocerca, n. sp., L. longitarsis, n. sp., L. nuditibia, n. sp. and L. ypocerca, n. sp. are diagnosed, described and illustrated, a new record species in China, namely, L. argentifrons (Shinonaga et Kano, 1977), is also included.

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Wan-Qi Xue, Shu-Chong Bai, and Wen-Xiu Dong "A Study of the Genus Limnophora Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Muscidae), with Descriptions of Six new species from China," Journal of Insect Science 12(17), 1-20, (1 February 2012). https://doi.org/10.1673/031.012.1701

Received: 9 January 2010; Accepted: 1 November 2011; Published: 1 February 2012

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