Amygdalops Lamb, 1914

Roháček, Jindřich, 2018, First Anthomyzidae (Diptera) from China: a new genus, six new species and new records, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 58 (1), pp. 35-76 : 47

Amygdalops Lamb, 1914

The genus Amygdalops Lamb, 1914 is the most diverse group of Anthomyzidae in the tropical belt of the Afrotropical ( ROHÁČEK 2004) and Oriental Regions ( ROHÁČEK 2008) and a few species of Amygdalops also extend into the Palaearctic Region ( ROHÁČEK 2006, 2009). Therefore, several species have been expected to occur in China, particularly in its Oriental part. The two species recorded below from Hainan Island. clearly belong to the Oriental fauna of Amygdalops . Their syntopic occurrence on this island revealed not only a new species but also a mistake in the previous affiliation of the female sex of Amygdalops bisinus Roháček, 2008 . Under the latter name, two species were mixed by ROHÁČEK (2008: 341–345) due to similarity of the distinctively sinuate male gonostyli and, moreover, the female described by him as A. bisinus belongs to another (new) species because the true female of A. bisinus was unknown at that time. To address the problem of correct male-female affiliation, the specimens from Hainan I. were studied using the barcoding area of COI (see material and methods and Fig. 31 ). Results of this analysis revealed that the female with more complex structures of the terminalia belongs to A. bisinus (described below) while the other female is conspecific with the male of a new species, A. sevciki sp. nov. Subsequently, all paratypes of A. bisinus as originally labelled by ROHÁČEK (2008), have been revised and those belonging to A. sevciki removed and included in the type series of the latter species.

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Fig. 31. Maximum likelihood tree outlining similarities of Amygdalops species and Marshallya platythorax based on the barcode region of COI.