taxonID	type	description	language	source
9D0C8785FFC7575801FDA90C73E72399.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Prosternum setulose. Proepisternum bare. Three postpronotal setae nearly arranged in a straight line. Three katepisternal setae. Basal portion of stem-vein bare dorsally and setulose ventrally. Apical portion of stem-vein bare dorsally and ventrally. Vein R 1 bare, R 4 + 5 usually with setulae dorsally and ventrally. Vein M slightly bending anteriorly. Male mid femur without a dorsal preapical protuberance bearing modified hook-like setulae. Calcar strong. Abdomen usually black in ground color, with grayish pruinosity and dark median vitta. Sternite 1 covered with fine hairs. Male cerci with two pairs of processes in margin (inner lobe and outer lobe), inner lobe subulate, apical part sclerotized, outer lobe present differently semilunar, cerci without spines in internal surface.	en	Li, Yue, Li, Siyu, Nihei, Silvio S., Dong, Yanjie, Liu, Hongxin, Xue, Wanqi, Zhang, Chuntian (2025): Two new species of Ziminellia Nihei & de Carvalho from China (Diptera: Muscidae), with new combinations and key to species. Zootaxa 5696 (4): 482-490, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5696.4.2, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5696.4.2
9D0C8785FFC7575801FDA90C73E72399.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Australasian, Oriental and Palearctic.	en	Li, Yue, Li, Siyu, Nihei, Silvio S., Dong, Yanjie, Liu, Hongxin, Xue, Wanqi, Zhang, Chuntian (2025): Two new species of Ziminellia Nihei & de Carvalho from China (Diptera: Muscidae), with new combinations and key to species. Zootaxa 5696 (4): 482-490, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5696.4.2, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5696.4.2
9D0C8785FFC7575801FDA90C73E72399.taxon	discussion	Remarks. The five new combinations, namely, Z. sordidisquama (Stein, 1918), Z. nigrisquama (Malloch, 1928), Z. sinensis (Ôuchi, 1942), Z. hainanensis (Ni, 1982), and Z. suifenhensis (Ni, 1982), were based on the phylogenetic and diagnostic characters provided by Nihei & de Carvalho (2007, p. 523) and Nihei & de Carvalho (2009, p. 20), respectively. Below we present the key to species and the new species descriptions. Redescriptions for the other eight species are available in the literature (Pont 1973; Emden 1965; Ye et al. 1982; Hennig 1964; Shinonaga 2003; Fan 2008; Pamplona et al. 2016).	en	Li, Yue, Li, Siyu, Nihei, Silvio S., Dong, Yanjie, Liu, Hongxin, Xue, Wanqi, Zhang, Chuntian (2025): Two new species of Ziminellia Nihei & de Carvalho from China (Diptera: Muscidae), with new combinations and key to species. Zootaxa 5696 (4): 482-490, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5696.4.2, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5696.4.2
9D0C8785FFC4575901FDA91D73FD2672.taxon	description	(Figs 1 – 8) urn: lsid: zoobank. org: act: AB 757 F 28 - 129 A- 4268 - AABC-C 90802 FD 09 E 4	en	Li, Yue, Li, Siyu, Nihei, Silvio S., Dong, Yanjie, Liu, Hongxin, Xue, Wanqi, Zhang, Chuntian (2025): Two new species of Ziminellia Nihei & de Carvalho from China (Diptera: Muscidae), with new combinations and key to species. Zootaxa 5696 (4): 482-490, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5696.4.2, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5696.4.2
9D0C8785FFC4575901FDA91D73FD2672.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Frons about 0.8 times as wide as postpedicel. Four postsutural dorsocentral setae, the two anteriormost shorter than the posterior two, 1 intrapostalar seta. Wing pale brown without dark clouds, subcosta bow-shaped; distal 1 / 3 of upper calypter opaque white, lower calypter whitish. Mid tibia with 4 – 5 posteroventral setae, anterodorsal seta absent; hind femur with 5 anteroventral setae on apical half, 3 lower ones longer. Cerci with four pairs of processes on lower margin.	en	Li, Yue, Li, Siyu, Nihei, Silvio S., Dong, Yanjie, Liu, Hongxin, Xue, Wanqi, Zhang, Chuntian (2025): Two new species of Ziminellia Nihei & de Carvalho from China (Diptera: Muscidae), with new combinations and key to species. Zootaxa 5696 (4): 482-490, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5696.4.2, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5696.4.2
9D0C8785FFC4575901FDA91D73FD2672.taxon	description	Description. Body length 7.4 – 7.6 mm. Male. Head (Figs 3 – 4). Eye with minute and scattered hairs. Frons about 0.8 times as wide as postpedicel, 5 – 6 pairs of frontal setae on lower 1 / 3 (the uppermost 1 – 2 shorter), 6 – 7 pairs of proclinate orbital setae, fronto-orbital plate and parafacial with grayish white pruinosity, parafacial about 0.6 times as wide as postpedicel. Gena black, with a few blue-gray pruinosity, slightly shiny, genal hairs and postgenal hairs all black, genal height about 1 / 5 of eye height. Antenna black, postpedicel 2.5 – 2.7 times as long as wide, 1.8 – 2.0 times as long as pedicel, arista plumose, the longest aristal hairs about twice of postpedicel width. Vibrissal angle situated behind frontal angle. Prementum with pruinosity, about twice as long as wide; palpus brownish black, about 1.5 times prementum length; labellum large. Thorax (Figs 1 – 2). Black in ground color, covered with dense pruinosity; postpronotal lobe with dense silvergray pruinosity; scutum with two broad black vittae, slightly shiny, not reaching the suture; scutum with one pruinose vitta in the middle (narrower than lateral black vitta) which is broader after the suture. 1 + 2 acrostichal setae; 3 + 4 dorsocentral setae (the two anteriormost postsutural setae shorter than the posterior ones); 0 + 1 intra-alar seta; 1 supra-alar seta; prealar seta 0.6 – 0.7 times as long as posterior notopleural seta; 3 postpronotal setae arranged nearly in a straight line; 1 posthumeral seta. Scutellum with dense gray pruinosity, laterally setulose; 1 prebasal seta, subapical seta absent, and 1 lateral seta. Prosternum setulose; proepisternum bare; 3 anterior anepisternal setae; 3 katepisternal setae; anepimeron and katepimeron setulose; meron bare, katatergite with villi. Anterior and posterior spiracles brownish black, posterior spiracles embed a few prostrate black setae. Wing (Figs 1 – 2) pale brown without dark clouds; membrane covered with microchaeta; tegula and basicosta dark brown. Vein subcosta bow-shaped, R 1 bare; R 4 + 5 with 6 – 7 setulae dorsally and 2 ventrally; vein M bent forward towards R 4 + 5, crossvein dm-cu nearly straight; lower calypter whitish with paler border and fringe, and 1 / 3 of the outer part opaque white; lower calypter enlarged posteriorly; halter dark, but apex yellowish. Suprasquamal ridge bare. Legs dark (Fig. 2). Fore femur with complete row of posteroventral setae, without anteroventral seta row; fore tibia without anterodorsal, posterodorsal, anteroventral and posterior setae, with 3 – 5 posteroventral setae on apical half and 3 of them longer. Mid femur with 2 – 3 rows of setulae on anteroventral surface, a row of posteroventral setae, 4 – 5 preapical posterior setae (the upper 2 – 3 setae shorter), without a preapical dorsal protuberance bearing a set of setulae; mid tibia with 4 – 5 posteroventral setae, posterior seta absent. Hind femur with 5 anteroventral setae on apical half, the 3 apical ones longer, posteroventral seta absent, with anterodorsal seta row (about 13 setae), 2 preapical dorsal setae; hind tibia with a row of 7 anteroventral setae from supramedial to preapical and seta length about equal to 1 / 4 of hind tibia length; 2 anterodorsal setae; 1 posterodorsal seta; 5 – 6 posteroventral setae on apical half and slightly longer than tibial width. Hind tarsi with erect yellow brush-like hairs vetrally in entire length, the length of basal hairs equal to tarsal width. Abdomen. Round-shaped in dorsal view, black in ground-colour, covered with grayish-white pruinosity; tergites with distinct black vitta in the middle, about equal to the base of hind tibia width. 1 st sternite setulose. Terminalia (Figs 5 – 8). Sternite 5 nearly rectangular, its lateral lobe short and pointed apically. Cerci with 4 pairs of processes in lower margin, the inner lobe subulate, apical part sclerotized, the outer lobe semilunar; cerci internal surface without spines. Surstylus short in profile, with some setae on basal half. Epiphallus short; distiphallus membranous, folding fan shape; pregonite robust and tapering to the apex, with 2 long and strong setae on basal half; postgonite slender and bare. Female. Unknown.	en	Li, Yue, Li, Siyu, Nihei, Silvio S., Dong, Yanjie, Liu, Hongxin, Xue, Wanqi, Zhang, Chuntian (2025): Two new species of Ziminellia Nihei & de Carvalho from China (Diptera: Muscidae), with new combinations and key to species. Zootaxa 5696 (4): 482-490, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5696.4.2, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5696.4.2
9D0C8785FFC4575901FDA91D73FD2672.taxon	materials_examined	Type material. Holotype ♂, CHINA, Huangdaigou, 41.83 ° N, 124.92 ° E, elev. 600 – 800 m, Qingyuan County, Fushun, Liaoning, 26 – 31. Ⅴ. 2015, Henan Li (SYNU). Paratype. 1 ♂, same as holotype.	en	Li, Yue, Li, Siyu, Nihei, Silvio S., Dong, Yanjie, Liu, Hongxin, Xue, Wanqi, Zhang, Chuntian (2025): Two new species of Ziminellia Nihei & de Carvalho from China (Diptera: Muscidae), with new combinations and key to species. Zootaxa 5696 (4): 482-490, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5696.4.2, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5696.4.2
9D0C8785FFC4575901FDA91D73FD2672.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The specific name is derived from the diagnostic character, Latin adjective quadrangula, referring to cerci with four pairs of processes on lower margin.	en	Li, Yue, Li, Siyu, Nihei, Silvio S., Dong, Yanjie, Liu, Hongxin, Xue, Wanqi, Zhang, Chuntian (2025): Two new species of Ziminellia Nihei & de Carvalho from China (Diptera: Muscidae), with new combinations and key to species. Zootaxa 5696 (4): 482-490, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5696.4.2, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5696.4.2
9D0C8785FFC4575901FDA91D73FD2672.taxon	distribution	Distribution. China (Liaoning).	en	Li, Yue, Li, Siyu, Nihei, Silvio S., Dong, Yanjie, Liu, Hongxin, Xue, Wanqi, Zhang, Chuntian (2025): Two new species of Ziminellia Nihei & de Carvalho from China (Diptera: Muscidae), with new combinations and key to species. Zootaxa 5696 (4): 482-490, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5696.4.2, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5696.4.2
9D0C8785FFC4575901FDA91D73FD2672.taxon	discussion	Remarks. The new species is similar to Z. asetosa (Baranov), but it differs from the latter as follows: frons narrower, about 0.8 times as wide as postpedicel; 1 + 2 acrostichal setae; 3 + 4 dorsocentral setae (0 + 2 acrostichal setae, 4 + 5 dorsocentral setae in Z. asetosa); and hind tibia with 2 anterodorsal setae and 1 posterodorsal seta (a row of 6 – 7 short anterodorsal setae and 3 posterodorsal setae in Z. asetosa) (characters of Z. asetosa from Fan 2008).	en	Li, Yue, Li, Siyu, Nihei, Silvio S., Dong, Yanjie, Liu, Hongxin, Xue, Wanqi, Zhang, Chuntian (2025): Two new species of Ziminellia Nihei & de Carvalho from China (Diptera: Muscidae), with new combinations and key to species. Zootaxa 5696 (4): 482-490, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5696.4.2, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5696.4.2
9D0C8785FFC3575D01FDAA8572C42585.taxon	description	(Figs 9 – 16) urn: lsid: zoobank. org: act: 2 B 44 F 07 D- 751 B- 405 C-AC 6 E-E 06 DC 8880 BE 4	en	Li, Yue, Li, Siyu, Nihei, Silvio S., Dong, Yanjie, Liu, Hongxin, Xue, Wanqi, Zhang, Chuntian (2025): Two new species of Ziminellia Nihei & de Carvalho from China (Diptera: Muscidae), with new combinations and key to species. Zootaxa 5696 (4): 482-490, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5696.4.2, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5696.4.2
9D0C8785FFC3575D01FDAA8572C42585.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Frons about 0.7 times as wide as postpedicel. Thoracic dorsum with 2 + 4 dorsocentral setae; 1 intrapostalar seta. Wing base with dark clouds, subcosta bow-shaped, R 1 bare, upper calypter brownish, lower calypter dark brown, enlarged posteriorly and extending below base of scutellum. Mid tibia with a row of anterodorsal setae, 2 posteroventral setae; hind femur with a completely row of anteroventral setae, apical 3 – 4 longer. Abdomen without pruinose vitta and patches.	en	Li, Yue, Li, Siyu, Nihei, Silvio S., Dong, Yanjie, Liu, Hongxin, Xue, Wanqi, Zhang, Chuntian (2025): Two new species of Ziminellia Nihei & de Carvalho from China (Diptera: Muscidae), with new combinations and key to species. Zootaxa 5696 (4): 482-490, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5696.4.2, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5696.4.2
9D0C8785FFC3575D01FDAA8572C42585.taxon	description	Description. Body length 5.2 – 5.6 mm. Male. Head (Figs 11 – 12). Eye with minute and scattered hairs. Fronto-orbital plate adjacent, frontal vitta about 1 / 3 as wide as anterior ocellus at the narrowest point. Frons about 0.7 times as wide as postpedicel, 6 – 7 pairs of frontal setae on lower 3 / 5 of frons, 2 pairs of proclinate orbital setae; fronto-orbital plate black; parafacial brownish black, outer margin with white gray pruinosity. Parafacial wider than frons, about 0.6 times as wide as postpedicel. Gena black, with gray pruinosity, slightly shiny, genal hairs and postgena hairs all black, gena height about 1 / 4 of eye height. Antenna black, postpedicel 2.6 – 2.7 times as long as wide, 1.9 – 2.0 times as long as pedicel; arista plumose, nearly straight, the longest aristal hairs 1.5 – 1.7 times of postpedicel width. Vibrissal angle slightly ahead of frontal angle in profile. Prementum black, about 2.5 times as long as wide; palpus brownish black, about 1.4 times of prementum length, labellum large. Thorax (Figs 9 – 10). Black in ground color, covered with sparse pruinosity; scutum in the middle with one faint pruinose vitta, not reaching the suture, both sides with narrow longitudinal pruinose vittae, wider than the inner black vitta; postpronotal lobe with inconspicuous sparse pruinosity. 4 postpronotal setae, 3 basal setae nearly in a straight line and the inner one shorter; 1 posthumeral seta; 1 + 2 acrostichal setae; 2 + 4 dorsocentral setae; 1 postsutural intra-alar seta; 1 prealar seta; 2 supra-alar setae; 1 intrapostalar seta. Scutellum with three pairs of marginal setae, apical scutellar seta about as long as basal scutellar seta, 1 short prebasal scutellar seta and 2 latero-discal setae, both sides of scutellum slightly with gray pruinosity and setulae. Notopleuron setulose; prosternum setulose; proepisternum bare; anepisternum setulose; 3 katepisternal setae; anepimeron setulose, katepimeron anteriorly setulose; meron bare; anterior and posterior spiracles dark brown, posterior spiracle embed a few prostrate black setae. Wing (Fig. 10) pale brown, dark-clouded along crossveins r-m and dm-cu; tegula and basicosta black; subcostal sclerite bare, vein subcosta bow-shaped; basal portion of stem-vein bare dorsally and setulose ventrally; apical portion of stem-vein bare dorsally and ventrally; R 1 bare; R 4 + 5 with 4 black setulae dorsally and 1 ventrally; vein M bent forward, crossvein dm-cu nearly straight. Suprasquamal ridge bare. Upper calypter brownish with paler border and fringe, and distal 1 / 3 opaque white, lower calypter dark brown, enlarged posteriorly and extending below base of scutellum; halter yellowish on apical portion and dark brown on basal portion. Legs dark brown (Fig. 10). Fore femur with complete rows of posterodorsal and posteroventral setae, the latter not thick and long; row of anteroventral setae absent; fore tibia without anterodorsal, anteroventral, posterodorsal, posteroventral and posterior setae. Mid femur with 2 – 3 rows of anteroventral setulae and a row of posteroventral setae, 3 preapical posterior setae, without a preapical dorsal protuberance bearing a set of setulae; mid tibia with 2 posteroventral and 3 posterior setae. Hind femur with a complete row of anteroventral setae, apical 3 – 4 longer, posteroventral seta absent, with a row of anterodorsal setae (about 14 setae), 1 preapical dorsal seta; hind tibia with a row of 5 – 7 anteroventral setae on apical half and seta about 1 / 4 of hind tibia length, 1 anterodorsal seta, 1 posterodorsal seta, with pale brown preapical setae on posteroventral surface, with 2 – 3 rows of long setulae and slightly longer than tibial width; hind tarsi with erect brownish yellow brush-like hairs ventrally in its entire length, which about as long as tarsal width. Abdomen. Round-shaped in dorsal view, black in ground-colour, with sparse grey pruinosity, 1 st sternite setulose. Terminalia (Figs 13 – 16). Sternite 5 nearly square, its lateral lobe slightly long and pointed apically. Cerci with 2 pairs of processes on lower margin, the inner lobe subulate, apical part sclerotized, the outer lobe semilunar; cerci without spines in internal surface, but with two small spines in lower margin. Surstylus with some setae laterally. Epiphallus elongate, enlarged at apex; distiphallus elongate and membranous; pregonite conspicuously elongate, as long as combined length of basiphallus and distiphallus, apparently bare (perhaps, the setulae have fallen); and postgonite slender and bare. Female. Unknown.	en	Li, Yue, Li, Siyu, Nihei, Silvio S., Dong, Yanjie, Liu, Hongxin, Xue, Wanqi, Zhang, Chuntian (2025): Two new species of Ziminellia Nihei & de Carvalho from China (Diptera: Muscidae), with new combinations and key to species. Zootaxa 5696 (4): 482-490, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5696.4.2, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5696.4.2
9D0C8785FFC3575D01FDAA8572C42585.taxon	materials_examined	Type material. Holotype ♂, CHINA, Ailao Mountains, 23.94 ° N, 101.34 ° E, elev. 870 – 1730 m, Jingdong-Zhenyuan County, Yunnan, 26 – 31. VI. 2018, C. T. Zhang (SYNU). Paratype. 1 ♂, same as holotype.	en	Li, Yue, Li, Siyu, Nihei, Silvio S., Dong, Yanjie, Liu, Hongxin, Xue, Wanqi, Zhang, Chuntian (2025): Two new species of Ziminellia Nihei & de Carvalho from China (Diptera: Muscidae), with new combinations and key to species. Zootaxa 5696 (4): 482-490, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5696.4.2, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5696.4.2
9D0C8785FFC3575D01FDAA8572C42585.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The specific name is taken from the type locality, Yunnan, China.	en	Li, Yue, Li, Siyu, Nihei, Silvio S., Dong, Yanjie, Liu, Hongxin, Xue, Wanqi, Zhang, Chuntian (2025): Two new species of Ziminellia Nihei & de Carvalho from China (Diptera: Muscidae), with new combinations and key to species. Zootaxa 5696 (4): 482-490, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5696.4.2, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5696.4.2
9D0C8785FFC3575D01FDAA8572C42585.taxon	distribution	Distribution. China (Yunnan).	en	Li, Yue, Li, Siyu, Nihei, Silvio S., Dong, Yanjie, Liu, Hongxin, Xue, Wanqi, Zhang, Chuntian (2025): Two new species of Ziminellia Nihei & de Carvalho from China (Diptera: Muscidae), with new combinations and key to species. Zootaxa 5696 (4): 482-490, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5696.4.2, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5696.4.2
9D0C8785FFC3575D01FDAA8572C42585.taxon	discussion	Remarks. The new species is similar to Z. sordidisquama (Stein), but it differs from the latter as follows: body length 5.2 – 5.6 mm, smaller than Z. sordidisquama (body length 6.5 mm); acrostichal setae 1 + 2 (0 + 1 in Z. sordidisquama); hind tibia with a row of 5 – 7 anteroventral setulae on apical half and setula about 1 / 4 of hind tibia length, 1 anterodorsal and 1 posterodorsal setae; first tarsomere of hind leg with a complete row of brown setae, basal setae ventrally about as long as tarsal width; male cerci with the outer process enlarged (narrower in Z. sordidisquama) (characters of Z. sordidisquama based on Fan 2008 and Pamplona et al. 2016).	en	Li, Yue, Li, Siyu, Nihei, Silvio S., Dong, Yanjie, Liu, Hongxin, Xue, Wanqi, Zhang, Chuntian (2025): Two new species of Ziminellia Nihei & de Carvalho from China (Diptera: Muscidae), with new combinations and key to species. Zootaxa 5696 (4): 482-490, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5696.4.2, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5696.4.2
