Katatopygia laticauda (Saigusa, 1968) Saigusa, 1968

Martinsson, Svante & Kjaerandsen, Jostein, 2012, Katatopygia gen. n., a monophyletic branch segregated from Boletina (Diptera, Mycetophilidae), ZooKeys 175, pp. 37-67 : 48

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.175.2388

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scientific name

Katatopygia laticauda (Saigusa, 1968)
status

comb. n.

Katatopygia laticauda (Saigusa, 1968) comb. n.

Boletina laticauda Saigusa, 1968: 4 (figs 1-4)

Diagnostic characters.

Very similar to Katatopygia sahlbergi from which it can be separated by the following characters (from Saigusa 1968, table 2): 1) wing vein Sc2 absent; 2) wing veins M-pet and ta of approximately the same length; 3) scutum with black mesonotal stripes fused; 4) thoracic pleura entirely black; 5) middle and hind coxae black.

Distribution.

Taiwan, only known with the holotype.

Type material.

The holotype is deposited in the Kyushu University Museum, Japan - not studied.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Mycetophilidae

Genus

Katatopygia