A list and a new species of genus Dasyhelea (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Yunnan, China

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  • 1 Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Chengdu Military Command, Kunming 650118, Yunnan Province, China;
    2 Key Laboratory of Biopesticide and Chemical Biology, Ministry of Education, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University;
    3 State Key Laboratory of pathogen and Biosecurity, Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology

Received date: 2014-12-20

  Online published: 2015-06-20

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Supported by the New Technology of Combined Monitoring of Mosquito Populations and Mosquito-borne Viruses (No. CWS11J283)

Abstract

Dasyhelea list from Yunnan province, China is summarized and a new species of the genus Dasyhelea is reported in this paper. So far, only 20 species of Dasyhelea from Yunnan province has been recorded including the new species: Dasyhelea oxyria Yu, Wang et Deng sp. nov. from Kunming city, Yunnan province, China. Color and tail morphological of the new species is closely allied to D. kyrenica Remm, 1972 and D. arenosa Kieffer, 1925, but the new species is distinctly characterized by full closed paramere and short median apophysis, 2 lateral protrusions and the middle protrusion on the aedeagus with blunt round bending sudden end. The type specimens are preserved in the medical insect specimens Museum, Fengtai East Street No. 20, Beijing 100071, China.

Cite this article

YU Jing, DENG Cheng-yu, SHI Qing-ming, CHEN Mao-mao, WANG Fei-peng, YU Yi-xin, FAN Quan-shui . A list and a new species of genus Dasyhelea (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Yunnan, China[J]. Chinese Journal of Vector Biology and Control, 2015 , 26(3) : 303 -305 . DOI: 10.11853/j.issn.1003.4692.2015.03.021

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