A taxonomic revision and molecular phylogeny of the eastern Palearctic species of the genera Schizomyia Kieffer and Asteralobia Kovalev (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae, Asphondyliini), with descriptions of five new species of Schizomyia from Japan

The genus Asteralobia (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae, Asphondyliini, Schizomyiina) was erected by Kovalev (1964) based on the presence of constrictions on the cylindrical male flagellomeres. In the present study, we examine the morphological features of Asteralobia and Schizomyia and found that the male fl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ayman Khamis Elsayed, Junichi Yukawa, Makoto Tokuda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2018-12-01
Series:ZooKeys
Online Access:https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/29679/