A new species of Limnia Robineau-Desviody, 1830 (Diptera: Sciomyzidae) from Iran

Abstract

A new species of the dipteran family Sciomyzidae is described from Iran: Limnia kassebeeri sp. n., which is similar to L. unguicornis (Scopoli, 1763) and L. paludicola Elberg, 1965, but differs from them by the reticulate pattern on the anal cell, the presence of one small seta on the anepisternum, in addition to fine hairs and the features of the genitalia.

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Keywords:

• Diptera
• Sciomyzidae
• Limnia
• new species
• Iran
• Middle East

Acknowledgements

We greatly appreciate the kindness of Christian F. Kassebeer (Germany) for providing literature, loan of specimens of L. unguicornis and L. paludicola, reading early drafts of this paper and offering valuable critical comments. We thank Valery A. Korneyev (Kiev, Ukraine) for providing us literature. The second author thanks Samad Khaghaninia (Tabriz, Iran) for the possibility to work on his collection. We thank Russell Cox (Sydney, Australia) for language improvements and two anonymous reviewers for reviewing the manuscript and for valuable critical comments.

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