New species of Claustropyga Hippa, Vilkamaa & Mohrig (Diptera, Sciaridae) from the Holarctic region

Heikki Hippa; Pekka Vilkamaa

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4088.4.10

New species of Claustropyga Hippa, Vilkamaa & Mohrig (Diptera, Sciaridae) from the Holarctic region

Zootaxa. 2016 Mar 11;4088(4):594-600. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4088.4.10.

Authors

Heikki Hippa¹, Pekka Vilkamaa²

Affiliations

¹ Heikki Hippa, Zoological Museum, Department of Biology, FI-20014 University of Turku, Finland.; Email: heikki.hippa@gmail.com.
² Pekka Vilkamaa, Finnish Museum of Natural History, Zoology Unit, P.O. Box 17, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland.; Email: pekka.vilkamaa@helsinki.fi.

PMID: 27394362
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4088.4.10

Abstract

The following four new species are described: Claustropyga clavulata sp. n. (Canada), C. lobigera sp. n. (Finland), C. modica sp. n. (Finland) and C. stupenda sp. n. (Canada, Russia). A fifth, probably new species is briefly discussed. Claustropyga stupenda has spectacular morphological characters in its hypopygium. There are now 23 species in Claustropyga.

MeSH terms

Animal Distribution
Animal Structures / anatomy & histology
Animal Structures / growth & development
Animals
Arctic Regions
Body Size
Canada
Diptera / anatomy & histology
Diptera / classification*
Diptera / growth & development
Finland
Male
Organ Size
Russia