Malaisinia Hering, 1938

Singh, Maneesh Pal & Hancock, David Lawrence, 2025, Five new species of subfamily Tephritinae (Tephritidae: Diptera) from Himalayas and description of postabdominal structures in Chaetostomella completa (Kapoor, Malla & Ghosh), Pliomelaena spathuliniforma (Dirlbek & Dirlbek) and P. zonogastra (Bezzi), Zootaxa 5689 (2), pp. 299-332 : 303

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5689.2.4

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:53139C23-EDE4-4BBF-9F20-71F0595192FF

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039B87BA-6B2E-FF80-FF0D-C4054C00DDD0

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Malaisinia Hering
status

 

Key to known species of Malaisinia Hering View in CoL

1. Anterior part of wing largely pale without distinct hyaline indentations crossing cell r 1 and hyaline indentations in cells m and cu 1 separated by black areas darker than rest of wing [NE Myanmar and W China ( Xizang [ Tibet])]....................................................................................................... M. pulcherrima Hering View in CoL

- Anterior part of wing not largely paler than rest of wing and with distinct hyaline indentations crossing cell r 1; hyaline indentations in cells m and cu 1 often not separated by black areas darker than rest of wing.............................2

2. Head with 4 pairs of frontal setae; wing with apical hyaline area in cell c rectangular, 3–4 hyaline indentations crossing cell r 1 and hyaline indentations in cell m separated by black areas darker than rest of wing [NE India ( Meghalaya)].......................................................................................... M. variegata (Radhakrishnan)

- Head with 3 pairs of frontal setae; wing with apical hyaline area in cell c quadrate, 2 hyaline indentations crossing cell r 1 and hyaline indentations in cell m separated by grey areas not darker than rest of wing.................................. 3

3. Wing cell r

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tephritidae

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