Antocha ( Antocha ) quadrifurca Alexander, 1971

Markevičiūtė, Radvilė, Podenas, Sigitas & Saldaitis, Aidas, 2021, New Antocha Osten Sacken (Diptera: Limoniidae) from Sichuan, China, Zootaxa 4969 (2), pp. 280-292 : 288

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4969.2.3

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4749017

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scientific name

Antocha ( Antocha ) quadrifurca Alexander, 1971
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Antocha ( Antocha) quadrifurca Alexander, 1971 View in CoL

( Figs 14 View FIGURES 11–15 , 29–35 View FIGURES 29–35 )

Antocha ( Antocha) quadrifurca Alexander, 1971: 170–171 View in CoL (description), 168 (illustration).

Diagnosis. Dark brownish-grey species; antenna black, flagellar segments oblong, oval ( Fig. 29 View FIGURES 29–35 ); wing subhyaline, milky, pterostigma pale brown ( Fig. 30 View FIGURES 29–35 ); tergite 9 narrowly transverse without lobes ( Figs 14 View FIGURES 11–15 , 33 View FIGURES 29–35 ); sternite 9 large, posterior border strongly convex ( Fig. 32 View FIGURES 29–35 ); gonocoxite oblong, rounded ( Figs 14 View FIGURES 11–15 , 31, 34, 35 View FIGURES 29–35 ); outer gonostylus short, stout, apex obliquely truncate ( Fig. 31 View FIGURES 29–35 ); interbase oblong, rounded at apex ( Figs 14 View FIGURES 11–15 , 31 View FIGURES 29–35 ); paramere forked at apex ( Figs 34, 35 View FIGURES 29–35 ); apex of aedeagus flattened into lyrate plate with two small bumps ( Figs 14 View FIGURES 11–15 , 31, 34, 35 View FIGURES 29–35 ); lateral structures branched, connected at apex of aedeagus, inner branch approximately three times longer than outer branch ( Figs 14 View FIGURES 11–15 , 31, 35 View FIGURES 29–35 ).

Material examined. 1 ♂ (in ethanol): CHINA, W. Sichuan, road Yaan / Kangding Erlang Shan Mt. , H- 2161 m, N29.87340, E102.30970, 2017.IX.11–12, leg. A. Saldaitis ( NRC) GoogleMaps .

Elevation range in China. Specimens were collected at 2161 m altitude.

Habitat. Small streams surrounded by mountainous mixed forest.

Distribution. The species was known previously only in India ( Assam), and is herein newly recorded from China ( Sichuan).

NRC

Division of Biological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Limoniidae

Genus

Antocha

Loc

Antocha ( Antocha ) quadrifurca Alexander, 1971

Markevičiūtė, Radvilė, Podenas, Sigitas & Saldaitis, Aidas 2021
2021
Loc

Antocha ( Antocha ) quadrifurca

Alexander, C. P. 1971: 171
1971
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