Viridigona zhangae Wang & Chen & Yang 2010, comb. nov.
Creators
- 1. Key Laboratory for Biological Control of Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China. E-mail: mengqingsw 99 @ yahoo. com. cn
- 2. Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Description
Viridigona zhangae (Wang, Yang & Grootaert, 2006), comb. nov.
Neurigona zhangae Wang, Yang & Grootaert, 2006: 87. Type-locality: Beijing.
Diagnosis. Thorax dark metallic green with pale grey pollen, pleuron shiny black, mesonotum dark metallic green with pale lateral margin. Fore tarsomere 4 with ventral surface of basal half somewhat swollen, with dense pale setae; tarsomere 5 with long claws chiefly black with yellow base. Male cercus elongated, with special setae and process.
Material examined. 3 ♂ and 2 ♀, Beijing, Mentougou, Baihuashan, 2005.VII.15, Junhua Zhang (CAU); 1 ♂, Beijing: Mentougou, Baihuashan, 2005.VII.16, Hui Dong & Kuiyan Zhang (CAU).
Remarks. The species is somewhat similar to species of Neurigona, but can be separated from the latter by the metallic green mesonotum and elongated male cercus. In species of Neurigona, the mesonotum is mainly yellow, at most with metallic green spots, and the male cercus is short and round (Naglis 2002). Viridigona zhangae represents a new Palearctic record for the genus. Viridigona Naglis is now distributed in the Neotropical, Nearctic and Palaearctic regions with 29 known species. Only one species of this genus is currently known from China.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2005-07-15 , 2005-07-16
- Family
- Dolichopodidae
- Genus
- Viridigona
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Wang & Chen & Yang
- Species
- zhangae
- Taxonomic status
- comb. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2005-07-15 , 2005-07-16
- Taxonomic concept label
- Viridigona zhangae (Wang, 2010) sec. Wang, Chen & Yang, 2010
References
- Wang M. Q., Yang, D. & Grootaert, P. (2006) A peculiar new species of Neurigona (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from North China, Palaearctic region. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Entomologie, 76, 87 - 91.
- Naglis, S. M. (2002) Revision of the Neotropical Neurigoninae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) IV: Viridigona gen. nov. Studia dipterologica, 9 (2), 561 - 604.