Portschinskia sichuanensis, Li & Pape & Zhang, 2020

Li, Xin-Yu, Pape, Thomas & Zhang, Dong, 2020, Taxonomy, phylogeny and evolution of the bumblebee bot flies (Oestridae: Hypodermatinae: Portschinskia), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 190 (3), pp. 942-973 : 963

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz176

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F9478F12-FFD4-1A31-C568-72ADFA2E7936

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Plazi

scientific name

Portschinskia sichuanensis
status

sp. nov.

PORTSCHINSKIA SICHUANENSIS View in CoL SP. NOV.

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Diagnosis: Wing hyaline. Abdomen in male with yellow setae anteriorly, followed by black and reddish setae on the last two segments.

Description: Male: Body length 17.6–18.1 mm; wing length and width 12.1 mm × 5.4 mm to 12.9 mm × 6.3 mm (N = 3). Large compound eye; height relative to head ≥ 1/2. Antennal pedicel broader than long, with a concavity in the middle of the terminal margin ( Fig. 6C View Figure 6 ). Width of frons ~1/7 width of head in dorsal view. Hair-like setae on frons, facial ridge and postpronotal lobe dark brown or black, on presutural area of scutum, anepisternum, postalar callus and scutellum pale yellow, and on meron a mixture of yellow and brown. Abdomen with yellow setae anteriorly, followed by black, and reddish setae on the last two segments ( Figs 2C View Figure 2 , 4C View Figure 4 ). Wing hyaline; vein M strongly curved after dm-cu; cell r 4 + 5 closed with a short petiole ( Fig. 10C View Figure 10 ). Male abdominal sternite 5 oval, broadened in the middle, making lateral margins distinctly convex and arc shaped. Male cerci basally black or dark brown, moderately flattened, with their combined basal part strongly swollen, heart shaped.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Oestridae

Genus

Portschinskia

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