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Roháček, J. ; Papp, L.: A review of the genus Paralimosina L. Papp (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae), with descriptions of ten new species

ANNALES HISTORICO-NATURALES MUSEI NATION ALIS HüNGARIC

1 Tomus 80. Budapest, 1988 p. 105-143. A review of the genus Paralimosina L. Papp (Diptera

9 Sphacroceridae), with descriptions of ten new species by J. ROHÁCEK, Opava & L. PAPP, Budapest J. ROHÁCEK & L. PAPP: A review of the genus Paralimosina L. Papp (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae), with descriptions of ten new species. — Annls hist.-nat. Mus. natn. hung. 1988 80: 105-143. Abstract — A review, covering the 20 Palaearctic and Oriental species of Paralimosina L. PAPP, 1973 is given. Data on primary types, published descriptions and figures, synonyms and distribution including new records, are provided. The genus is redefined without the subgenus Canarisina ROHÁCEK, 1983 which is removed and synonymized (syn. n.) with Aptilotus MIK, 1898. The monotypic apterous taxa Hackmanieila L. PAPP, 1979 and Nipponsina L. PAPP, 1982 are placed as new synonyms of Paralimosina, and their type species, viz. P. ceylanica (L. PAPP, 1979) comb. n. and P. sexsetosa (L. PAPP, 1982) comb. n. are redescribed.Ten new species are described and illustrated: P. acris, P. minor (both USSR: Far East), P. lobata (Pakistan), P. brevis, P. bracteata, P. marshalli (all Nepal), P. dimorpha, P. icaros (both India, Nepal), P. gigantea and P. indica (both India), and a key to all 20 Paralimosina species is presented. Notes on the relationships, plus figures of the male gonostylus, of all species are given. Knowledge of the female terminalia is supplemented by description and figures of the accessory glands. With 132 figures. INTRODUCTION The limosinine genus Paralimosina L. PAPP, 1973 was originally described as a monotypic genus for P. kaszabi L. PAPP, 1973 from Mongolia. On revising its type species, ROHÁCEK (1983) recognized that the Limosina fucata-group (of ROHÁCEK 1977) belongs to this genus and broadened its concept to include a new subgenus, Canarisina ROHÁCEK, 1983, erected for Limosina beckeri DUDA, 1918 and allied species. In the meantime L. PAPP & ROHÁCEK (1981) and ROHÁCEK & L. PAPP (1983) described 5 new species from Canary Is. and placed them tentatively in Paralimosina as forming a separate P. beckeri-gioup (because Canarisina was an unavailable name at that time). MARSHALL (1983) correctly recognized that the P. beckeri-group is closely related to Aptilotus paradoxus MIK, 1898 and transferred it to Aptilotus MIK, 1898. However, the removal of P. avolans ROHÁCEK & L. PAPP, 1983 and the subgenus Canarisina ROHÁCEK, 1983 from Paralimosina has not been formalized up to the present. Two additional species of Paralimosina have been described from Japan (HAYASHI, 1985) and further two species by L. PAPP (1979, 1982), one in Hackmaniella and one in Leptocera (Nipponsina)

, respectively (see below). The aim of this study is (1) to redefine the genus Paralimosina to include many new and additional species and to exclude the subg. Canarisina; (2) to review all 20 known species and provide new distributional records obtained during the last decade; (3) to describe new species from hitherto underinvestigated areas of the Palaearctic and Oriental Regions and (4) to provide a new key to the identification of Paralimosina species. Other biogeographic provinces of the Old World are purposefully neglected, although Paralimosina occurs there (see below), because of the lack of sufficient material. The morphological terminology of ROHÁCEK (1982, 1983) is followed here, including