Nemoraea echinata Mesnil, 1953

Fig. 7B, D, F, H

Nemoraea echinata Mesnil, 1953: 154. Type locality: Myanmar: Kachin, Kambaiti.

Nemoraea echinata: Crosskey 1976: 198. Chao et al. 1998: 2028. O’Hara et al. 2009: 159. O’Hara et al. 2020a: 741; 2020b: 946.

Material examined.

China - Tibet (= Xizang) • 1♀ (SYNU-XZ 210023); Rikaze, Yadong County, Yadong, Gajvsi temple; 3286 m elev.; 27°48'N, 88°90'E; 29.VII.2021; C.T. Zhang & X.Y. Li leg.

Diagnosis.

Head and thoracic dorsum with golden-yellow pruinosity. Eye covered with dense hairs. Frons of about 0.5 (male) or 0.6 (female) times of eye width; parafacial nearly bare; upper part of head usually with only 1 row of black setulae behind postocular setae. Antenna with postpedicel 4-5 times as long as pedicel; longest aristal hairs at most as long as aristal diameter. Presutural setae 3 and dorsocentral setae 4; apical scutellar seta absent. Lower calypter with long hairs dorsally on posterior half. Legs black. Fore tibia with 2 posterior setae; mid tibia with 5 anterodorsal and 1 ventral setae; hind tibia with 4-5 anterodorsal setae. Abdomen ovate, dark, black, with many erect setae and hairs, densely covered with gray or indistinct pruinosity on tergites. Abdominal syntergite 1+2 medially extending back to hind margin, without median marginal setae.

Distribution.

China (Shaanxi, Sichuan, Tibet; Fig. 8), India, Myanmar.