taxonID	type	description	language	source
5637000B5E847CB589851E006F6D5D7A.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Width of face approximately twice length of first flagellomere. Arista of first flagellomere apical, becoming black to pale yellow from base to tip. Four pairs of dc (anterior one short, posterior three strong). Acr clear and regular. CuAx ratio 0.5. Legs mainly black. Cercus nearly white, strip-like, sharp apically, with one obvious dentation at basal 1 / 5, five times longer than wide, apical bristle somewhat claw-like.	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
5637000B5E847CB589851E006F6D5D7A.taxon	description	Description. Male (Fig. 1). Body length 2.2 mm, wing length 2.3 mm. Head: vertex, frons and face dark metallic green with gray pollinosity; eyes separated, face nearly parallel, width of face twice length of first flagellomere. Hairs and bristles on head black except postocular bristles and posteroventral hairs pale yellow. Antenna (Fig. 11) black, first flagellomere nearly triangular, almost as long as wide, shortly brown pubescent; arista apical, becoming black to pale yellow from base to tip, bare, with basal segment extremely short, less than 0.1 times length of apical segment. Proboscis brown with pale white apical hairs; palpus brown with pale white apical hairs. Thorax metallic green with gray pollinosity. Hairs and bristles on thorax black. Four pairs of dc (anterior one short, posterior three strong), four clear regular biseriate acr at anterior portion, two sa. Scutellum with two pairs of sc (median pair long, strong). Legs becoming dark brown to brown from base to tip onward except tip of femora yellow. Hairs and bristles on legs mainly pale yellow. Fore coxa with six dorsal bristles on apical 1 / 2; mid coxa with three dorsal bristles and one outer bristle at middle. Hind coxa with one outer bristle at middle. Hind trochanter with one outer bristle at middle. Fore femur with two short ventral hairs apically. Mid femur with four ventral bristles at basal half, gradually becoming longer from base to tip onward. Fore tibia with two short black apical bristles. Hind tibia with five short strong apical spurs. Fore tarsomere one with row of 16 short ventral bristles; hind tarsomere 1 with row of 18 short dorsal and 18 short ventral bristles. Relative length of tibiae and five tarsomeres of legs LI: 2.7: 1.5: 0.8: 0.6: 0.5: 0.4; LII: 3.5: 2.0: 1.0: 0.7: 0.4: 0.4; LIII: 4.5: 1.0: 1.5: 1.0: 0.5: 0.5. Wing nearly hyaline, tinged brown; veins brown, R 4 + 5 and M 1 + 2 convergent apically. CuAx ratio 0.5. Squama pale white with long white hairs. Halter pale yellow. Abdomen dark metallic green with thin gray pollinosity. Hairs and bristles pale yellow. Male genitalia (Figs 12, 30): Mainly black except epandrial lobes, surstylus and cercus pale to yellow, phallus brown. Hairs and bristles pale yellow. Epandrium longer than wide, epandrial lobes small, fused at base, each with one slender apical bristle. Ventral surstylus long, wide, slightly wide at apex, with three short apical bristles; dorsal surstylus wide and rounded apically, with three short apical bristles. Cercus nearly white, strip-like, narrowed towards tip, with an obvious dentation at basal 1 / 5; marginal bristles present on weak digitations, five times longer than wide, apical bristle somewhat claw-like. Hypandrium tilted up apically, blunt apically. Phallus thin, hidden within hypandrium. Female. Unknown.	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
5637000B5E847CB589851E006F6D5D7A.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Palaearctic: China (Inner Mongolia).	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
5637000B5E847CB589851E006F6D5D7A.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The specific name refers to the color of the arista, which becomes black to pale yellow gradually from base to tip.	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
878B0A803CE5865A1EAA889BC486CA5F.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Width of face about 1.5 times length of first flagellomere. Three pairs of long strong dc in same length, six biseriate acr. Legs mainly yellow, mid femur yellow except narrow blackish dorsal portion. CuAx ratio 0.3. Cercus strip-like, six times longer than wide, ventral margin with three bristles at apical 1 / 5; tip with two digitations each with one apical bristle. Phallus with distinct preapical lateral wings in ventral view.	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
878B0A803CE5865A1EAA889BC486CA5F.taxon	description	Description. Male (Fig. 2). Body length 1.8 mm, wing length 1.5 mm. Head: vertex, frons and face dark metallic green with gray pollinosity; eyes separated, face nearly parallel, width of face approximately 1.5 times length of first flagellomere. Hairs and bristles on head black except postocular bristles and posteroventral hairs pale yellow. Antenna (Fig. 13) black; first flagellomere flat, shortly brown pubescent; arista apical, black, bare, with basal segment extremely short, less than 0.1 times length of apical segment. Proboscis black with black apical hairs; palpus black with black apical bristle. Thorax metallic green with gray pollinosity. Hairs and bristles on thorax black. Three pairs of long strong dc in same length, six hair-like biseriate acr, two sa. Scutellum with two pairs of sc (median pair long, strong). Legs mainly yellow but coxae, trochanters and all tarsomere 5 black, fore and hind femora dark yellow to yellow except mid femur with narrow blackish portion dorsally. Hairs and bristles on legs mainly pale white. Fore coxa with seven strong anterior bristles; mid coxa with three strong anterior bristles and one outer bristle; hind coxa with one outer bristle at middle and single apical bristle. Mid femur with 12 short dorsal bristles in a row. Mid tibia with one brown paired ad-pd at basal 1 / 3. Hind tibia with four ventral bristles in apical half and three black apical bristles. Relative length of tibiae and five tarsomeres of legs LI: 2.0: 1.0: 0.5: 0.4: 0.2: 0.3; LII: 2.5: 1.0: 0.5: 0.4: 0.3: 0.3; LIII: 2.5: 0.6: 1.0: 0.5: 0.3: 0.2. Wing nearly hyaline, tinged brown; veins light brown, R 4 + 5 and M 1 + 2 convergent apically. M 1 + 2 somewhat curve. CuAx ratio 0.3. Squama pale white with short pale hairs. Halter pale yellow. Abdomen dark metallic green with thin gray pollinosity. Hairs and bristles pale yellow. Male genitalia (Figs 14, 31): Mainly black except epandrial lobes, surstylus and cercus yellow. Hairs and bristles yellow to white. Epandrium longer than wide, epandrial lobes thin finger-like, each with single long thin apical bristle. Ventral surstylus widened towards tip, straight at apex, with row of eight short apical bristles; dorsal surstylus wide and U-shaped apically, straight and thin, ventral lobe with one short apical bristle, dorsal lobe with nine bristles. Cercus strip-like, long, narrowed towards tip, six times longer than wide, base slightly dilated; ventral margin with three bristles at apical 1 / 5, dorsal margin with dense marginal bristles, tip with two digitations each with one apical bristle. Hypandrium simple. Phallus with distinct preapical lateral wings in ventral view. Female. Body length 1.9 mm, wing length 1.7 mm. Similar to male except the narrow blackish dorsal portion of mid femur is nearly indistinct.	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
878B0A803CE5865A1EAA889BC486CA5F.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Palaearctic: China (Inner Mongolia).	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
878B0A803CE5865A1EAA889BC486CA5F.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The specific name refers to the two digitations of the cercus which each has an apical bristle.	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
67B5BB2CA0E675C0D58737A8F66605FA.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Width of face approximately twice length of first flagellomere. Three pairs of long strong dc in same length, four hair-like biseriate acr. CuAx ratio 0.67. Legs mainly black. Ventral surstylus with one external bristle at apical 1 / 3 on ventral margin, one long apical bristles; dorsal lobe of dorsal surstylus dilated. Cercus strip-like, 2.5 times longer than wide, with blade-like bristles at apex and ventral apical 1 / 4 point. Phallus and hypandrium both normal in lateral and ventral view.	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
67B5BB2CA0E675C0D58737A8F66605FA.taxon	description	Description. Male (Fig. 3). Body length 2.0 - 2.3 mm, wing length 1.75 - 1.9 mm. Head: vertex, frons and face dark metallic green with gray pollinosity; eyes separated, face nearly parallel, width of face nearly twice length of first flagellomere. Hairs and bristles on head black except postocular bristles and posteroventral hairs pale yellow. Antenna black, first flagellomere oval, 1.2 times longer than wide, shortly brown pubescent; arista apical, black, bare, with basal segment short, nearly 0.1 times length of apical segment. Proboscis black with black apical hairs; palpus black with black apical hairs and one black apical bristle. Thorax dark metallic green with gray pollinosity. Hairs and bristles on thorax black except pp with three pale white spine-like bristles. Three pairs of long strong dc in same length, four hair-like biseriate acr, two sa. Scutellum with two pairs of sc (median pair long strong). Legs black except apical half of femora, middle 1 / 3 of fore tibia, mid tibia and main portion of hind tibia, basal half of fore and mid tarsomere 1 yellow. Hairs and bristles on legs mainly pale yellow. Fore coxa with row of 12 short dorsal bristles; mid and hind coxae each with one strong outer bristle at middle and one apical bristle. Mid and hind trochanters each with one spine-like outer bristle at middle. Hind femur with six dorsal bristles and eight short ventral bristles at basal 1 / 2. Fore tibia with three short apical bristles. Mid tibia with one paired black strong ad-pd at basal 1 / 5 and two black strong apical bristles. Hind tibia with row of six weak ad at apical 1 / 3 and two short apical bristles. Hind tarsomere 1 with row of short ventral bristles and two apical bristles. Hind tarsomere 2 with six short av. Relative length of tibiae and five tarsomeres of legs LI: 3.5: 2.0: 1.2: 0.8:?:?; LII: 5.0: 3.0: 1.5: 1.0: 0.7: 0.6; LIII: 5.0: 1.3: 3.0: 1.3: 0.5: 0.4 (fore tarsomeres 4 - 5 missing). Wing nearly hyaline, tinged brown; veins brown, R 4 + 5 and M 1 + 2 convergent apically. CuAx ratio 0.67. Squama pale white with long pale white hairs. Halter pale yellow. Abdomen dark metallic green with thick gray pollinosity. Hairs and bristles pale white. Male genitalia (Figs 15, 32): Mainly black except epandrial lobes, surstylus, hypandrium and cercus dark yellow; phallus dark brown. Hairs and bristles yellow to pale white. Epandrium longer than wide; epandrial lobes forming two digitations each with one long thin apical bristle. Ventral surstylus nearly straight, slightly narrower at apical 1 / 6, blunt at tip, with one external bristle at apical 1 / 3 on ventral margin, one long and three short apical bristles; dorsal surstylus thin, dilated and U-shaped apically, straight and thin, with ventral lobe thin, sharp at tip, with one long apical bristle, dorsal lobe dilated with three normal apical bristles and one long apical bristle. Cercus strip-like, 2.5 times longer than wide, invaginated at basal 1 / 3 to apical 1 / 3 on ventral margin, thick at apical 1 / 4 to apical 1 / 3, with dense thin marginal bristles at dorsal margin, one long blade-like apical bristle, one blade-like bristle at apical 1 / 4 on ventral margin. Hypandrium thin and simple, sharp apically. Phallus thin and normal, hidden within hypandrium. Female. Unknown.	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
67B5BB2CA0E675C0D58737A8F66605FA.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Palaearctic: China (Inner Mongolia).	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
67B5BB2CA0E675C0D58737A8F66605FA.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species is named for the three claw-like bristles on the cercus.	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
F7566ABF6F158F4464028F870878D50F.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Width of face about 1.7 times length of first flagellomere. First flagellomere somewhat rectangular, 0.4 times as long as wide. Four pairs of dc of which posterior three pairs long strong, Five hair-like biseriate acr. Pp with three pale yellow spine-like bristles in equal length. CuAx ratio 0.8. Legs almost entirely yellow. Basolateral bristle of epandrial lobe wholly feather-like. Cercus strip-like, tip depressed at middle, margin on invagination slightly raised at middle, with one short blade-like apical bristle.	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
F7566ABF6F158F4464028F870878D50F.taxon	description	Description. Male (Fig. 4). Body length 2.8 mm, wing length 2.5 mm. Head: vertex, frons and face dark metallic green with gray pollinosity; eyes separated, face nearly parallel, width of face about 1.7 times length of first flagellomere. Hairs and bristles on head black except postocular bristles and posteroventral hairs pale yellow. Antenna (Fig. 16) black; first flagellomere somewhat rectangular, 0.4 times as wide as long; arista apical, black and bare, with basal segment extremely short, less than 0.1 times length of apical segment. Proboscis black with pale yellow apical hairs; palpus black with black apical hairs. Thorax dark metallic green with gray pollinosity. Hairs and bristles on thorax black except pp with three pale yellow spine-like bristles in equal length. Four pairs of dc of which posterior three pairs long strong, five hair-like biseriate acr, two sa. Scutellum with two pairs of sc (median pair long, strong). Legs mainly yellow, but base of fore coxa, mid and hind coxae, extreme base of hind tarsomere 1, apical half of tarsomere 3 and tarsomeres 4 - 5 black. Hairs and bristles on legs mainly pale yellow. Fore coxa with three apical bristles; mid and hind coxae each with one strong outer bristle at middle and one outer bristle at apical 1 / 2. Mid femur with six pairs of weak av-pv. Hind femur with six dorsal bristles and eight short ventral bristles, all very thin. Mid tibia with one black ad-pd pair at basal 1 / 4 and two apical bristles. Hind tibia with eight short ad at apical 1 / 4 and three apical bristles. Fore and mid tarsomeres 2 - 4 each with three short black apical bristles. Hind tarsomere 2 with row of 12 short spine-like bristles. Relative length of tibiae and five tarsomeres of legs LI: 2.5: 1.3: 1.0: 0.5: 0.4: 0.4; LII: 3.5: 2.0: 1.0: 0.6: 0.5: 0.3; LIII: 4.0: 0.8: 2.0: 1.0: 0.5: 0.4. Wing nearly hyaline, tinged brown; veins brown, R 4 + 5 and M 1 + 2 convergent apically. CuAx ratio 0.8. Squama pale white with long pale hairs. Halter pale yellow. Abdomen dark metallic green with thick gray pollinosity. Hairs and bristles pale yellow. male genitalia (Figs 17, 33): Mainly black except epandrial lobes, surstylus and cercus brown. Hairs and bristles yellow to pale white. Epandrium longer than wide, epandrial lobes forming one digitation with two long and slender apical bristles, of which basolateral bristle of epandrial lobe wholly feather-like. Ventral surstylus narrowed towards tip, almost straight except one wave near base, tip blunt, with row of six apical bristles; dorsal surstylus wide and U-shaped apically, thin, bent at middle, with one long bristle at apical 1 / 10, ventral and dorsal lobes each with one short apical bristle. Cercus strip-like, raised at middle on dorsal margin, three times longer than wide; dorsal margin with dense marginal bristles, tip depressed at middle, margin on depression slightly raised at middle, with short dense bristles and one short blade-like bristle apically. Hypandrium simple. Phallus thin, hidden within hypandrium. Female. Body length 3.0 mm, wing length 2.5 mm. Similar to male.	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
F7566ABF6F158F4464028F870878D50F.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Palaearctic: China (Inner Mongolia).	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
F7566ABF6F158F4464028F870878D50F.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The specific name refers to the nearly entirely yellow color of the legs.	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
C8A89E9B55F69A00A1C63844788D06AD.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Width of face about two times length of first flagellomere. Four pairs of dc, anterior two weak and posterior two strong, one biseriate acr. CuAx ratio 1.4. Hind tibia slightly expanded at apex, with five short black apical spurs. Ventral surstylus with two long strong bristles at apical 1 / 5. Hypandrium narrowed towards tip, sharp apically, thin and simple in lateral and ventral view. Cercus nearly rectangular, two times longer than wide, with one blade-like bristle apically.	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
C8A89E9B55F69A00A1C63844788D06AD.taxon	description	Description. Male (Fig. 5). Body length 2.5 mm, wing length 2.5 mm. Head: vertex, frons and face dark metallic green with gray pollinosity; eyes separated, face nearly parallel, width of face about twice length of first flagellomere. Hairs and bristles on head black except postocular bristles black and posteroventral hairs pale yellow. Antenna (Fig. 18) all black; first flagellomere pale white pubescent; arista apical, black, thinly pale white pubescent, nearly bare, with basal segment extremely short, less than 0.1 times length of apical segment. Proboscis dark brown with several radial black strips; palpus black with one brown apical bristles. Thorax dark metallic green with gray pollinosity. Hairs and bristles on thorax black. Four pairs of dc, anterior two weak and posterior two strong, one biseriate acr at anterior portion, two sa. Scutellum with two pairs of sc (median pair long, strong). Legs mainly black except tip of femora dark yellow and extreme base of mid tibia dark yellow. Hairs and bristles on legs mainly pale white. Fore coxa with one anterior bristle at middle and four ventral apical hairs; mid coxa with two outer bristles at middle; hind coxa with one outer bristle at middle. Hind femur with row of three short av at basal 1 / 3 to apical 1 / 3. Fore tibia without distinct bristle; mid tibia with one brown apical bristle; hind tibia slightly expanded at apex, without distinct bristle but with five short black apical spurs. Relative length of tibia and five tarsomeres of legs LI: 3.5: 1.5: 1.3: 1.0: 0.5: 0.4; LII: 5.0: 2.2: 2.0: 1.0: 0.4: 0.5; LIII: 5.5: 1.0: 2.5: 1.5: 0.6: 0.6. Wing nearly hyaline, tinged brown; veins brown, R 4 + 5 and M 1 + 2 convergent apically. CuAx ratio 1.4. Squama pale white with pale hairs. Halter pale yellow. Abdomen dark metallic green with thin gray pollinosity. Hairs and bristles pale yellow. Tergite 2 with one circulate of bristles apically. Male genitalia (Figs 19, 34): Mainly black. Hairs and bristles mainly pale white except two long strong bristles at apical 1 / 5 of ventral surstylus black. Epandrium longer than wide; epandrial lobes forming one digitation with two long slender apical bristles. Ventral surstylus long, narrowed towards tip, almost straight, dilated at basal 1 / 2, with two long strong bristles at apical 1 / 5 portion (one bristle at apical 1 / 8, one bristle at apical 1 / 10); dorsal surstylus thin, slightly narrowed towards tip, wide and U-shaped apically, dorsal lobe with three short weak bristles, ventral lobe with one long, straight bristle at tip; lobes both sharp at apex. Cercus nearly rectangular, somewhat wave-like at base, nearly two times longer than wide, with one blade-like bristle apically; covered with thin bristles, but marginal bristles distributed averagely. Hypandrium narrowed towards tip, sharp apically, thin and simple in lateral and ventral view. Phallus hidden in hypandrium. Female. Unknown.	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
C8A89E9B55F69A00A1C63844788D06AD.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Palaearctic: China (Inner Mongolia).	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
C8A89E9B55F69A00A1C63844788D06AD.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species is named for the type locality, Ganshu.	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
67D084138AD1E05E11C3EA8F1EBC3517.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Width of face about 1.5 times length of first flagellomere. Four pairs of dc in same length, four uniseriate acr. Vein M 1 + 2 bent. CuAx ratio 1.0. Ventral surstylus long, wide, slightly narrow at apex, with row of ten ventral bristles at apical 1 / 4 and six thin apical bristles; dorsal surstylus wide and U-shaped apically, ventral lobe with row of six bristles, dorsal lobe with one preapical bristle. Cercus nearly rectangular, with one blade-like apical bristle, six times longer than wide.	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
67D084138AD1E05E11C3EA8F1EBC3517.taxon	description	Description. Male (Fig. 6). Body length 2.1 mm, wing length 2.3 mm. Head: vertex, frons and face dark metallic green with gray pollinosity; eyes separated, face nearly parallel, width of face about 1.5 times length of first flagellomere. Hairs and bristles on head black except postocular bristles and posteroventral hairs pale yellow. Antenna (Fig. 20) black; first flagellomere nearly triangular, nearly as long as wide, with shortly brown pubescent; arista apical, black, bare, with basal segment extremely short, less than 0.1 times length of apical segment. Proboscis brown with pale white apical hairs; palpus wide, brown with 1 pale white apical bristle. Thorax dark metallic green with gray pollinosity. Hairs and bristles on thorax black. Four pairs of dc in same length, four uniserate acr, two sa. Scutellum with two pairs of sc (median pair long strong). Legs all black except tips of mid and hind femora dark yellow. Hairs and bristles on legs mainly pale yellow. Fore coxa with six anterior bristles; mid and hind coxae each with one outer bristle at middle. Hind trochanter with one outer bristle at middle. Mid femur with six ventral bristles at basal half, of which middle three relatively long. Hind tibia expanded apically, with three short black apical bristles. Fore tarsomere 1 with row of 12 short ventral bristles; hind tarsomere 1 with row of 12 short dorsal and 12 short ventral bristles. Relative length of tibiae and five tarsomeres of legs LI: 2.7: 1.2: 1.0: 0.7: 0.4: 0.3; LII: 3.7: 2.5: 1.0:?:?:?; LIII: 4.0: 1.0: 1.8: 1.0: 0.5: 0.5 (mid tarsomeres 3 - 5 missing). Wing nearly hyaline, tinged brown; veins brown, R 4 + 5 and M 1 + 2 convergent apically. M 1 + 2 somewhat bent. CuAx ratio 1.0. Squama pale white with short pale white hairs. Halter pale yellow. Abdomen dark metallic green with thin gray pollinosity. Hairs and bristles pale yellow. Male genitalia (Figs 21, 35): Mainly black except epandrial lobes, surstylus and cercus dark yellow to brown, phallus dark brown. Hairs and bristles yellow to pale white. Epandrium longer than wide; epandrial lobes forming one long digitation with two long thin apical bristles. Ventral surstylus long, wide, slightly narrow at apex, with row of ten ventral bristles at apical 1 / 4 and six thin apical bristles; dorsal surstylus wide and U-shaped apically, ventral lobe with row of six bristles, dorsal lobe with one preapical bristle. Cercus nearly rectangular, with one blade-like apical bristle, with long marginal bristles and external bristles, six times longer than wide. Hypandrium simple. Phallus thin, hidden within hypandrium. Female. Unknown.	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
67D084138AD1E05E11C3EA8F1EBC3517.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Palaearctic: China (Inner Mongolia).	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
67D084138AD1E05E11C3EA8F1EBC3517.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species is named after the collector Lihua Wang.	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
BD2CEF2A00341CD2C65621A4788BEF08.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Width of face about 1.5 times length of first flagellomere. First flagellomere rounded, nearly 0.8 times longer than wide. Four pairs of dc in same length, eight biseriate acr. M-Cu somewhat curved. CuAx ratio 0.61. Cercus strip-like, narrowed towards tip, base dilated, with one apically dilated blade-like apical bristle. Hypandrium thin, tilted back at tip. Phallus thin and sharp at tip, almost totally separate from hypandrium.	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
BD2CEF2A00341CD2C65621A4788BEF08.taxon	description	Description. Male (Fig. 7). Body length 3.0 mm, wing length 2.5 mm. Head: vertex, frons and face dark metallic green with gray pollinosity; eyes separated, face nearly parallel, width of face about 1.5 times length of first flagellomere. Hairs and bristles on head black except postocular bristles and posteroventral hairs pale yellow. Antenna (Fig. 22) black; first flagellomere rounded, nearly 0.8 times longer than wide, shortly brown pubescent; arista apical, black, bare, with basal segment extremely short, less than 0.1 times length of apical segment. Proboscis extremely wide, black with pale white apical hairs; palpus black with pale white apical bristle. Thorax metallic green with gray pollinosity. Hairs and bristles on thorax black. Four pairs of dc in same length, eight biseriate acr, two sa. Scutellum with two pairs of sc, median pair long strong. Legs all black, but brown to yellow at apical 1 / 3 of femora, dark yellow at tibiae except extreme base and tip, yellow at apical half of tarsomere 1. Hairs and bristles on legs mainly black, but pale yellow on tarsus. Fore coxa with four ventral bristles at apical half; mid and hind coxae each with one outer bristle at middle. Fore trochanter with two bristles at middle. Hind tibia with two short apical bristles. Relative length of tibiae and five tarsomeres of legs LI: 3.0: 1.3: 1.0: 0.6: 0.3: 0.3; LII: 4.5: 2.2: 1.3: 0.7: 0.5: 0.5; LIII: 5.0: 1.2: 2.1: 1.2: 0.5: 0.5. Wing nearly hyaline, tinged brown; veins brown, R 4 + 5 and M 1 + 2 convergent apically. M-Cu somewhat curved. CuAx ratio 0.61. Squama pale white with long pale white hairs. Halter pale yellow. Abdomen dark metallic green with thin gray pollinosity. Hairs and bristles pale yellow. Male genitalia (Figs 23, 36) Mainly black except epandrial lobes, surstylus and cercus dark yellow, phallus black. Hairs and bristles yellow to pale white. Epandrium longer than wide; epandrial lobes forming one long digitation with two long and slender apical bristles. Ventral surstylus straight, round at apex, with row of six long apical bristles; dorsal surstylus wide and U-shaped apically, straight and thin, ventral lobe with one preapical long spine-like bristle, dorsal lobe with four short bristles. Cercus strip-like, three times longer than the widest point, narrowed towards tip, base dilated, ventral and dorsal margins each invaginated at basal 1 / 3 and dorsal 1 / 3, with long and dense marginal bristles at dorsal margin, with one apically dilated blade-like apical bristle. Hypandrium thin, tilted back at tip. Phallus thin and sharp at tip, almost entirely separate with hypandrium. Female. Unknown.	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
BD2CEF2A00341CD2C65621A4788BEF08.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Palaearctic: China (Inner Mongolia).	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
BD2CEF2A00341CD2C65621A4788BEF08.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species is named after the collector Li Shi.	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
CDE68CA47A81FC3EDB67A056906440D5.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Width of face approximately twice length of first flagellomere. Four pairs of dc (anterior one short, posterior three strong), four biseriate acr. CuAx ratio 0.8. Phallus thin with big and round apex. Ventral surstylus long, wide, slightly narrowed towards tip, with three short apical bristles; dorsal surstylus thin, narrowed towards tip, wide and rounded apically, with three short apical bristles. Cercus nearly oval, 1.8 times longer than wide, without specialized bristles, covered with thin bristles (marginal bristles distributed averagely).	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
CDE68CA47A81FC3EDB67A056906440D5.taxon	description	Description. Male (Fig. 8). Body length 2.4 - 2.5 mm, wing length 3.5 mm. Head: vertex, frons and face metallic green with gray pollinosity; eyes separated, face nearly parallel, width of face about twice length of first flagellomere. Hairs and bristles on head black except postocular bristles black and posteroventral pale yellow. Antenna (Fig. 24) all black; first flagellomere 0.8 times longer than wide; arista apical, thinly black pubescent, nearly bare, with basal segment extremely short, less than 0.1 times length of apical segment. Proboscis dark brown with radius dark brown strips, and with short pale apical hairs; palpus black with one strong black apical bristles. Thorax metallic green with gray pollinosity. Hairs and bristles on thorax dark yellow. Four pairs of dc (anterior one short, posterior three strong), four regular biseriate acr at anterior portion, two sa, pp with two yellow bristles not in equal length. Scutellum with two pairs of sc (median pair long strong). Legs black except tips of femora yellow. Hairs and bristles on legs mainly pale. Fore coxa with two rows of four paired ad-pd at apical 1 / 2; mid coxa with two outer bristles at middles; hind coxa with one outer bristle at middle. Mid trochanter with three short bristles apically. Hind femur with two rows of four short paired ad-pd at basal 1 / 3. Fore tibia with three short ventral apical bristles. Mid tibia with one brown ad at basal 2 / 5, one pd at basal 1 / 10 and two short ventral apical bristles; hind tibia without distinct bristles. Relative length of tibia and five tarsomeres of legs LI: 5.0: 1.0: 1.5: 1.0: 0.7: 0.5; LII: 6.5: 3.0: 2.0: 1.6: 0.6: 0.7; LIII: 7.5: 1.5: 4.0: 1.6: 0.8: 0.7. Wing nearly hyaline, tinged brown; veins brown, R 4 + 5 and M 1 + 2 convergent apically. CuAx ratio 0.8. Squama pale white with pale white hairs. Halter pale yellow. Abdomen metallic green with thin gray pollinosity. Hairs and bristles pale yellow. Male genitalia (Figs 25, 37): Mainly black except epandrial lobes, surstylus and cercus dark yellow, phallus dark brown. Hairs and bristles yellow to pale white. Epandrium longer than wide; epandrial lobes forming one digitation with two slender apical bristles. Ventral surstylus long, wide, slightly narrowed towards tip, with three short apical bristles; dorsal surstylus thin, narrowed towards tip, wide and rounded apically, with three short apical bristles. Cercus nearly oval, 1.8 times longer than wide, without specialized bristles, covered with thin bristles (marginal bristles distributed averagely). Hypandrium narrowed towards tip, blunt apically, thin and simple in lateral view. Phallus thin with big and round apex. Female. Unknown.	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
CDE68CA47A81FC3EDB67A056906440D5.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Palaearctic: China (Inner Mongolia).	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
CDE68CA47A81FC3EDB67A056906440D5.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species is named for the type locality, Shuimogou.	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
8E572C61B40C7935EDCFB2445255C638.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Width of face about 2.5 times length of first flagellomere. Four pairs of long strong spine-like dc, seven short weak hair-like biseriate acr. CuAx ratio 1.0. Ventral surstylus nearly straight, wide at basal 1 / 3, sharp apically, with a small preapical protuberance, with one spine-like apical bristle; dorsal surstylus thin, but dilated and U-shaped apically. Cercus strip-like, with dense marginal bristles and three long external bristles at basal 1 / 4. Hypandrium slightly expanded preapically in ventral view.	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
8E572C61B40C7935EDCFB2445255C638.taxon	description	Description. Male (Fig. 9). Body length 2.5 mm, wing length 2.2 mm. Head: vertex, frons and face dark metallic green with gray pollinosity; eyes separated, face nearly parallel, width of face about 2.5 times length of first flagellomere. Hairs and bristles on head black except postocular bristles and posteroventral hairs pale yellow. Antenna (Fig. 26) black; first flagellomere nearly triangular, 1.1 times longer than wide, blunt at tip, shortly brown pubescent; arista apical, black, bare, basal segment short, nearly than 0.15 times length of apical segment. Proboscis black with black apical hairs; palpus black with black apical bristle. Thorax metallic green with gray pollinosity. Hairs and bristles on thorax black except pp with three pale yellow spine-like bristles in same length. Four pairs of long strong spine-like dc, seven short weak hair-like biseriate acr, two sa. Scutellum with two pairs of sc (median pair long strong). Legs black except trochanters, tip of femora, mid tibia and basal half of mid tarsomere 1 yellow; hind tibia brown. Hairs and bristles on legs mainly pale yellow. Fore coxa with some short dorsal hairs and five-six short apical bristles; mid coxa with one strong outer bristle at middle and one relatively weak bristle at apical 1 / 3, hind coxa with one outer bristle at middle. Hind femur with five dorsal bristles and six short ventral bristles at basal 1 / 2. Fore tibia with two short brown apical bristles. Mid tibia with paired black strong ad-pd at basal 1 / 3 and two black strong apical bristles. Hind tibia with paired ad-pd at apical 1 / 6 and two short apical bristles. Fore tarsomere 1 with row of short ventral bristles. Hind tarsomere 1 with four short and thick black ventral bristles. Relative length of tibiae and five tarsomeres of legs LI: 2.5: 1.0: 0.8: 0.5: 0.3: 0.4; LII: 3.5: 2.0: 1.0: 0.7: 0.3: 0.4; LIII :: 3.5: 0.5: 1.7:?:?:? (hind tarsomeres 3 - 5 missing). Wing nearly hyaline, tinged brown; veins brown, R 4 + 5 and M 1 + 2 convergent apically. CuAx ratio 1.0. Squama pale white with long pale white hairs. Halter pale yellow. Abdomen dark metallic green with thick gray pollinosity. Hairs and bristles pale yellow. Male genitalia (Fig. 22): Mainly black except epandrial lobes, surstylus and hypandrium dark yellow; cercus and phallus dark brown. Hairs and bristles yellow to pale white. Epandrium longer than wide; epandrial lobes forming one digitation with two long thin apical bristles. Ventral surstylus nearly straight, wide at basal 1 / 3, sharp apically, with a small preapical protuberance, with one spine-like apical bristle; dorsal surstylus thin, but dilated and U-shaped apically, ventral lobe short and wide, with six digitations each with one apical bristle, dorsal lobe dilated with one small digitation bearing one long apical bristles at basal 1 / 3 on dorsal margin and four preapical external bristles. Cercus strip-like, thick at basal 1 / 4 to middle on dorsal margin and apical 1 / 8 to 1 / 4 on ventral margin, with dense marginal bristles and three long external bristles at basal 1 / 4, two short bristles on the thick part of ventral margin and one short preapical bristle on ventral margin, and one apical blade-like bristle. Hypandrium thin and simple, sharp apically, slightly expanded preapically in ventral view. Phallus thin, hidden within hypandrium. Female. Unknown.	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
8E572C61B40C7935EDCFB2445255C638.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Palaearctic: China (Inner Mongolia).	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
8E572C61B40C7935EDCFB2445255C638.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species is named for the shape of the dorsal surstylus.	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
B16EF59BEF115CB7A3FDBE0EC59D55CA.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Width of face about 1.5 times length of first flagellomere. Six biseriate acr. CuAx ratio 1.25. Ventral surstylus slightly waved at middle, straight at apex, dorsal surstylus wide and U-shaped apically, dilated at basal 1 / 4, thin at middle to apical 1 / 4, ventral lobe with one preapical bristle, dorsal lobe with three bristles. Cercus strip-like, without specialized bristle, six times longer than wide.	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
B16EF59BEF115CB7A3FDBE0EC59D55CA.taxon	description	Description. Male (Fig. 10). Body length 2.6 mm, wing length 2.5 mm. Head: vertex, frons and face dark metallic green with gray pollinosity; eyes separated, face nearly parallel, width of face about 1.5 times length of first flagellomere. Hairs and bristles on head black except postocular bristles and posteroventral hairs pale yellow. Antenna (Fig. 28) black, first flagellomere rounded, shortly brown pubescent; arista apical, black, bare, with basal segment extremely short, less than 0.1 times length of apical segment. Proboscis black with black apical hairs; palpus black with one black apical bristle. Thorax metallic green with gray pollinosity, two sa. Hairs and bristles on thorax black. With five pairs of dc, six biseriate acr, two sa. Scutellum with two pairs of sc (median long, strong). Legs all black. Hairs and bristles on legs mainly pale yellow. Fore coxa with eight dorsal bristles at apical 1 / 2; mid and hind coxae each with one outer bristle at middle. Mid femur with four ventral bristles at basal 1 / 4 to apical 1 / 4. Hind tibia with four short dorsal bristles at apical 1 / 5, expanded apically, with five short apical bristles. Relative length of tibiae and five tarsomeres of legs LI: 3.0: 1.3: 1.0: 0.6: 0.3: 0.3; LII: 4.5: 2.2: 1.3: 0.7: 0.5: 0.5; LIII: 5.0: 1.2: 2.1: 1.2: 0.5: 0.5. Wing nearly hyaline, tinged brown; veins brown, R 4 + 5 and M 1 + 2 convergent apically. R 4 + 5 and M 1 + 2 arched towards R 2 + 3. CuAx ratio 1.25. Squama pale white with short pale white hairs. Halter pale yellow. Abdomen dark metallic green with thin gray pollinosity. Hairs and bristles pale yellow. Male genitalia (Figs 29, 39): Mainly black except epandrial lobes, surstylus, cercus and phallus brown. Hairs and bristles yellow to pale white. Epandrium longer than wide; epandrial lobes forming one long digitation with two slender apical bristles. Ventral surstylus slightly waved at middle, straight at apex, with row of eight short apical bristles; dorsal surstylus wide and U-shaped apically, dilated at basal 1 / 4, thin at middle to apical 1 / 4, ventral lobe with one preapical bristle, dorsal lobe with three bristles. Cercus strip-like, somewhat invaginated at ventral margin, with a dentation at apical 2 / 5 on dorsal margin, narrower at tip, without specialized bristle, with long bristles at dorsal margin and short external bristles, six times longer than wide. Hypandrium simple. Phallus thin, hidden within hypandrium. Female. Unknown.	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
B16EF59BEF115CB7A3FDBE0EC59D55CA.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Palaearctic: China (Inner Mongolia).	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
B16EF59BEF115CB7A3FDBE0EC59D55CA.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species is named for the type locality, Xiquekou.	en	Tang, Chufei, Wang, Ning, Yang, Ding (2016): New species of Medetera from Inner Mongolia, China (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Medeterinae). ZooKeys 604: 117-144, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.604.8377
