Descriptions of new species of the genera Camptochaeta Hippa & Vilkamaa and Corynoptera Winnertz (Diptera, Sciaridae) from the Holarctic

Pekka Vilkamaa; Frank Menzel

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4353.2.6

Descriptions of new species of the genera Camptochaeta Hippa & Vilkamaa and Corynoptera Winnertz (Diptera, Sciaridae) from the Holarctic

Zootaxa. 2017 Nov 23;4353(2):347-359. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4353.2.6.

Authors

Pekka Vilkamaa¹, Frank Menzel

Affiliation

¹ Finnish Museum of Natural History, Zoology Unit, P. O. Box 17, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland.. pekka.vilkamaa@helsinki.fi.

PMID: 29245513
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4353.2.6

Abstract

Six species of the genus Camptochaeta Hippa & Vilkamaa, 1994 and four of the genus Corynoptera Winnertz, 1867 from the Holarctic region are newly described and illustrated: Camptochaeta chilkatensis sp. n. (USA: Alaska), C. curtipilosa sp. n. (USA: Colorado), C. exquisita sp. n. (USA: Oregon), C. fitzgeraldi sp. n. (USA: Oregon), C. fulvistylata sp. n. (Canada: British Columbia), C. pertenuis sp. n. (Russia: Krasnodarsk region), Corynoptera bocheri sp. n. (Greenland; Canada: Quebec), C. hyperborea sp. n. (Russia: Krasnodarsk region), C. hystricina sp. n. (RUSSIA: Krasnodarsk region) and C. tenuichaeta sp. n. (Russia: Krasnodarsk region).

Keywords: Diptera, Sciaridae, systematics, new taxa.

MeSH terms

Alaska
Animal Distribution
Animal Structures
Animals
British Columbia
Colorado
Diptera*
Greenland
Oregon
Russia