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Abstract
One subgroup of the Stegana (Steganina) coleoptrata species group is elevated as a species group (i.e., the shirozui species group), so as to include the three known species, S. ctenaria Nishiharu, S. (S.) masanoritodai Okada and Sidorenko and S. (S.) shirozui Okada, as well nine new species reported from China and Japan: S. (S.) jiajinshanensis, S. (S.) jianfenglingensis, S. (S.) maoershanensis, S. (S.) multidentata, S. (S.) qinlingensis, S. (S.) saigusai, S. (S.) shennongi, S. (S.) wuyishanensis and S. (S.) xanthosticta spp. nov. A key to all the species of this group is provided.
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Acknowledgements
We thank Prof. T. Saigusa (Kyushu University, Japan), who helped HW Chen in collecting drosophilids in Kumamoto, Japan and Mrs. Hui-Luo Cao, Hua-Zhi Cao, Jian-Jun Jiang, Tong Li, Miao-Feng Xu, Xiao-Lei Zhang and Feng Zhao (SCAU) for field collections. This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 30470212, 30670248); the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars and Science Foundation of Doctor Subjects, State Education Ministry of China (No. 20050564016).