Nothybus kempi ( Brunetti, 1913 )

Zhou, Jiale, Marshall, Stephen A. & Yang, Ding, 2021, Synopsis of Nothybidae (Diptera: Brachycera) from China, with redescription of Nothybus absens Lonsdale & Marshall, Zootaxa 4926 (2), pp. 201-223 : 212

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Nothybus kempi ( Brunetti, 1913)

( Figs 38–55, 76)

Psila kempi Brunetti, 1913: 187 . Syntypes (3 ³♀): India, Assam, depository unknown (lost?).

Nothybus kempi: Enderlein, 1922: 175 ; Aczél, 1955: 9; Frey, 1958: 39; Steyskal, 1977: 30; Meier et al., 1999: 209; Papp et al., 2006: 176; Galinskaya & Shatalkin, 2015: 583; Lonsdale & Marshall, 2016: 19.

Diagnosis. Frons ( Figs 40–42) with two velvety black anterior patches. Mesonotum ( Fig. 43) with irregularly 6 rows of presutural acrostichal setulae in mid-longitudinal stripe. Wing ( Fig. 44) with dark brown transverse stripe extending from C to CuA 1 along dm-cu; three clear and strongly iridescent spots arranged in a straight line; CuA 1 with brown elongate oval spot extending into cell dm and not reaching dm-cu. Fore basitarsomere ( Fig. 45) white or whitish-yellow with base dark brown. Abdominal tergite 1 and anterior margin of tergite 2 yellowish orange, tergite 3 dark brown, tergite 4 with orange lateral margin ( Figs 46–48).

Material examined. CHINA: 3³ 2♀, Yunnan, Dehong, Ruili (N24.111210°, E97.986650°), 13 May. 2018, leg. B. Zhang ( CAU) GoogleMaps .

Distribution. CHINA (Yunnan) [new record], INDIA, LAOS, THAILAND, VIETNAM.

Remarks. The Chinese specimens from our study differ from the redescriptions of Lonsdale & Marshall (2016) as follows: male abdominal tergite 4 laterally with large orange regions, tergite 6 and terminalia light yellow ( Figs 46, 47). Female abdominal tergite 6 dark brown ( Figs 39, 48).

References

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Brunetti, E. (1913) Zoological results of the Arbor Expedition, 1911 - 12. XI. Diptera. Records of the Indian Museum, 8, 149 - 190, pl. 6.

Enderlein, G. (1922) Klassifikation der Micropeziden. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, (A), 88, 140 - 229.

Frey, R. (1958) Studien uber ostasiatische Dipteren. VI. Nothybidae, Micropezidae, Opomyzidae. Notulae Entomologicae, 38, 37 - 50.

Galinskaya, T. V. & Shatalkin, A. I. (2015) New species of Nothybus Rondani, 1875 (Diptera: Nothybidae) from Vietnam with a key to Vietnamese species of the genus. Zootaxa, 4012 (3), 581 - 592. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4012.3.11

Lonsdale, O. & Marshall S. A. (2016) Revision of the family Nothybidae (Diptera: Schizophora). Zootaxa, 4098 (1), 1 - 42. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4098.1.1

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Papp, L., Merz, B. & Foldvari, M. (2006) Diptera of Thailand: A summary of the families and genera with references to the species representations. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientarum Hungaricae, 52 (2), 97 - 269.

Steyskal, G. C. (1977) Family Nothybidae. In: Delfinado, M. C. & Hardy, D. E. (Eds.), A Catalog of the Diptera of the Oriental Region 3: Suborder Cyclorrhapha (Excluding Division Aschiza). University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu, pp. 30 - 31.