taxonID	type	description	language	source
03BCE776B70E904E6886AB61FC94AE9C.taxon	materials_examined	Type species: Rhaphiocera hakiensis Matsumura, by original designation.	en	Li, Zhu, Yang, Ding, Zhang, Tingting (2016): Review of the genus Rhaphiocerina Lindner (Diptera: Stratiomyinae), with description of a new species. Zootaxa 4111 (1): 53-60, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4111.1.4
03BCE776B70E904E6886AB61FC94AE9C.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Body length 6.0 – 7.0 mm. Eyes bare in both sexes, contiguous in males and widely separated in females. Both sexes with broad postocular rim and slightly narrow in males. Antenna inserted on a square tubercle; flagellum about as long as scape and pedicel combined. Male frons linear. Scutellum trapezoid with pair of reduced spines. Vein R 4 present, vein M 3 incomplete or invisible, vein CuA 1 not arising from discal cell. Abdomen longer than wide.	en	Li, Zhu, Yang, Ding, Zhang, Tingting (2016): Review of the genus Rhaphiocerina Lindner (Diptera: Stratiomyinae), with description of a new species. Zootaxa 4111 (1): 53-60, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4111.1.4
03BCE776B70E904E6886AB61FC94AE9C.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Known only from Asia, including Japan (Kyushu) and South China (Guangxi province). Remarks. There are 2 Rhaphiocerina species known.	en	Li, Zhu, Yang, Ding, Zhang, Tingting (2016): Review of the genus Rhaphiocerina Lindner (Diptera: Stratiomyinae), with description of a new species. Zootaxa 4111 (1): 53-60, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4111.1.4
03BCE776B70D904C6886AEF1FDBCA9B8.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Upper 2 / 3 of postocular rim yellow and lower 1 / 3 black. Mesonotum with pair of yellow longitudinal stripes. Vein M 3 reduced and no longer than 1 / 4 of vein M 2. Abdomen blackish brown with broad yellow lateral margin and lateral spots. Tergite 1 black; postero-lateral margin of tergites 2 – 4 with stripe-like yellow lateral spots.	en	Li, Zhu, Yang, Ding, Zhang, Tingting (2016): Review of the genus Rhaphiocerina Lindner (Diptera: Stratiomyinae), with description of a new species. Zootaxa 4111 (1): 53-60, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4111.1.4
03BCE776B70D904C6886AEF1FDBCA9B8.taxon	description	Description. Male (Figs. 1 – 3). Body length 7.0 mm; wing length 5.0 mm. Head blackish brown. Upper frontal triangle nearly linear, blackish brown, small and bare. Lower frontal triangle bare, swollen above antenna, with a subtriangular ivory white spot. Eyes holoptic, brown and bare, ommatidia all the same size. Postocular rim wide, with pale hairs, upper 2 / 3 yellow and lower 1 / 3 black. Face and gena blackish brown with pale long hairs. Antennal scape and pedicel blackish brown with dark hairs. Flagellum yellowish brown, apical arista long, blackish brown. Antennal length ratio of scape: pedicel: flagellum (exclude arista) = 2: 3: 5. Arista 1.7 times as long as rest of antenna. Proboscis small, pale yellow with pale hairs. Thorax blackish brown except humeral callus and postalar callus yellow. Notum with pair of yellow longitudinal stripes. Anterior margin of longitudinal stripes dissociative, nearly reaching front margin of notum, posterior margin of longitudinal stripes reaching scutellum, connected with yellow portion of postalar callus. Lateral and hind margins of scutellum yellow and blackish brown in the middle. Scutellar spines yellow and short. Pleuron with a broad yellow band running form humeral callus to base of wing. Thorax with pale hairs. Legs slender and unmodified. All coxae black, the rest yellow with yellow hairs. Wing hyaline, tinged with yellow, veins pale yellow with crossvein m-cu distinct. Vein R 4 present, mainly two M veins arising from discal cell, vein M 3 reduced, only a short stump vein visible, vein M 3 no longer than 1 / 4 of vein M 2. Haltere yellow. Abdomen blackish brown with broad yellow lateral margin and lateral spots. Tergite 1 black; postero-lateral margins of tergites 2 – 4 with stripe-like yellow lateral spots; hind margin of tergite 5 yellow. Venter blackish brown. Tergite and sternite of abdomen with pale hairs. Male terminalia broken. Female (Figs. 4 – 6). Body length 6.5 mm; wing length 5.0 mm. Most characters similar to male, but eyes dichoptic, blackish brown and bare. Postocular rim wide, upper 2 / 3 shiny yellow and lower 1 / 3 shiny black. Frons shiny black, bare, wider towards antenna. Frons occupying about 1 / 5 of head width. Part of lower frons above antenna with an oblong yellow spot. Face shiny black with sparse pale short hairs. Gena shiny black with pale long hairs. Antenna blackish brown, scape nearly as long as pedicel, flagellum spindle-shaped, apical flagellomere with slender arista. Arista about 1.5 times as long as the rest of antenna. Proboscis short, yellow with pale hairs. Spots on thorax and abdomen similar to those in male. Female terminalia (Figs. 7 – 12) with one-segmented cercus, long oval with hairs. Tergite 8 subrectangular with shallow V-shaped incision at basal margin. Tergite 9 trapezoid, about twice as wide as long. Tergite 10 triangular, longer than wide. Genital furca slightly longer than wide, with straight basal margin; basal part of gentital furca rectangular, wider than long; postero-lateral projections slender and postero-median projections regularly triangular. Sternite 10 triangular with basal margin slightly concaved. Specimen examined. 1 ♂, CHINA, Guangxi, Longzhou, 2006. V. 15, Yin-Xia Liao (CAU); 1 ♀, CHINA, Guangxi, Guilin, 1953. VI. 19, collectors unknown (IZCAS); 1 ♀, CHINA, Guangxi, Guilin, 1953. VI. 27, collectors unknown (IZCAS).	en	Li, Zhu, Yang, Ding, Zhang, Tingting (2016): Review of the genus Rhaphiocerina Lindner (Diptera: Stratiomyinae), with description of a new species. Zootaxa 4111 (1): 53-60, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4111.1.4
03BCE776B70D904C6886AEF1FDBCA9B8.taxon	distribution	Distribution. China (Guangxi); Japan.	en	Li, Zhu, Yang, Ding, Zhang, Tingting (2016): Review of the genus Rhaphiocerina Lindner (Diptera: Stratiomyinae), with description of a new species. Zootaxa 4111 (1): 53-60, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4111.1.4
03BCE776B70D904C6886AEF1FDBCA9B8.taxon	discussion	Remarks. Rhaphiocerina hakiensis (Matsumura, 1916) was first published by Lindner as a new combination when he established the new genus Rhaphiocerina in 1936. Lindner transferred the species Rhaphiocera hakiensis from the old genus Rhaphiocera to the new one Rhaphiocerina and appointed Rhaphiocerina hakiensis as the type species of the new genus (Lindner, 1936). Rhaphiocera hakiensis was first described in Japanese as well as in English after a female specimen in 1916 (Matsumura, 1916). The species was only known from the palaearctic part of Japan while our specimens from the Guangxi province represent the first record from the Oriental region. Another unpublished female specimen is known from Taiwan (Hauser pers. communication). The genus Rhaphiocera Macquart 1846 is an incorrect subsequent spelling of Raphiocera Maquart, 1834 (Woodley, 2001). For a long time, the incorrect spelling, Rhaphiocera was used in the literature. The genus Raphiocera Macquart 1834 is mainly distributed in the Neotropical region (11 species) and has one Australian species (Raphiocera orientalis Lindner, 1957), which might not belong in this genus (Woodley, 2001). Lindner establish the genus Rhaphiocerina, because the males are holoptic, while all Raphiocera and related genera in South America have dichoptic males. He placed the new genus in the Sarginae. In the monograph of 2014, there is a mistake in the citing of this species. “ Rhaphiocerina hakiensis Matsumura, 1916 ” should be “ Rhaphiocera hakiensis (Matsumura, 1916) ”. Thus, “ Matsumura ” should surrouded with parentheses as in this paper.	en	Li, Zhu, Yang, Ding, Zhang, Tingting (2016): Review of the genus Rhaphiocerina Lindner (Diptera: Stratiomyinae), with description of a new species. Zootaxa 4111 (1): 53-60, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4111.1.4
03BCE776B70B90486886A82CFD03A977.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Postocular rim mostly shiny black, only with a subsquare ivory white spot on each outside of vertex. Thoracic notum shiny black without any spots. Vein M 3 incomplete, not reaching wing margin, but distinct and visible. Abdomen shiny black without yellow lateral margin, postero-lateral margins of tergites 3 – 4 with subsquare yellow lateral spots.	en	Li, Zhu, Yang, Ding, Zhang, Tingting (2016): Review of the genus Rhaphiocerina Lindner (Diptera: Stratiomyinae), with description of a new species. Zootaxa 4111 (1): 53-60, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4111.1.4
03BCE776B70B90486886A82CFD03A977.taxon	description	Description. Female (Figs. 13 – 15). Body length 6.9 mm; wing length 5.6 mm. Head shiny black. Eyes dichoptic, brown and bare. Frons narrow, about 1 / 5 as wide as head and slightly narrower towards antenna. Frons shiny black and bare. Lower frons swollen above antennae, with a subtriangular ivory white spot reaching eyes. Postocular rim wide, mostly shiny black, only with a subsquare ivory white spot on each outside of vertex. Face shiny black with sparse black hairs. Gena shiny black with pale long hairs. Antenna fulvous, scape nearly as long as pedicel; flagellum spindle-shaped with long slender apical arista. Antennal length ratio of scape: pedicel: flagellum (exclude arista) = 1: 2: 3. Arista twice as long as rest of antenna. Proboscis short and small, yellow with pale hairs. Thorax shiny black with sparse pale short hairs. Mesonotum without any spots, only thin brown line along upper margin of pleuron running from humeral callus to postalar callus. Lateral and hind margins of scutellum yellow and blackish brown in the middle. Scutellar spines yellow and short. Legs slender and unmodified. All coxae black, the rest fulvous with yellow short hairs. Wing hyaline, tinged with yellow, veins brown to pale yellow with crossvein m-cu distinct. Vein R 4 present, three M veins arising from discal cell, vein M 3 incomplete, not reaching wing margin, but slightly longer than 1 / 2 of vein M 2. Haltere yellow. Abdomen shiny black without yellow lateral margin, only with 2 pairs of yellow lateral spots. Tergites 1 – 2 black; postero-lateral margin of tergites 3 – 4 with subsquare yellow spots; hind margin of tergite 5 yellow. Sternite blackish brown. Tergite and sternite of abdomen with pale hairs. Female terminalia (Figs. 18 – 23) with onesegmented cercus, long oval with hairs. Tergite 8 trapezoid with broad and deep V-shaped incision at basal margin. Tergite 9 trapezoid, about three times as wide as long. Tergite 10 triangular, wider than long. Genital furca distinctly longer than wide with straight basal margin; basal part of gentital furca rectangular, longer than wide; postero-lateral projections spindle-shaped in lateral view, tapered towards apex; postero-median projections obtuse triangular. Sternite 10 subtriangular with a small middle incision on basal margin. Male. Unknown. Specimen examined. Holotype: ♀, CHINA, Guangxi, Longzhou, Xiangshui, 2006. V. 15, Yin-Xia Liao (CAU). Paratype: 1 ♀, CHINA, Guangxi, Longzhou, Nonggang, 2006. V. 16, Yin-Xia Liao (CAU).	en	Li, Zhu, Yang, Ding, Zhang, Tingting (2016): Review of the genus Rhaphiocerina Lindner (Diptera: Stratiomyinae), with description of a new species. Zootaxa 4111 (1): 53-60, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4111.1.4
03BCE776B70B90486886A82CFD03A977.taxon	distribution	Distribution. China (Guangxi).	en	Li, Zhu, Yang, Ding, Zhang, Tingting (2016): Review of the genus Rhaphiocerina Lindner (Diptera: Stratiomyinae), with description of a new species. Zootaxa 4111 (1): 53-60, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4111.1.4
03BCE776B70B90486886A82CFD03A977.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species is named after the type locality China.	en	Li, Zhu, Yang, Ding, Zhang, Tingting (2016): Review of the genus Rhaphiocerina Lindner (Diptera: Stratiomyinae), with description of a new species. Zootaxa 4111 (1): 53-60, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4111.1.4
03BCE776B70B90486886A82CFD03A977.taxon	discussion	Remarks. Although sexual dimorphism occurs in Stratiomyinae, for the genus Rhaphiocerina, there are not too many differences in external characters between males and females except head characters. For R. hakiensis, eyes are contiguous in males and separated in females, resulting in sexually dimorphic frons characteristics. Other head characteristics are the same in both sexes. The new species is similar to Rhaphiocerina hakiensis (Matsumura, 1916) from Japan, but may be separated from the latter in the following characters: postocular rim is mostly shinning black, only with a subsquare ivory white spot on each outside of vertex; mesonotum has not any yellow spots and stripes; vein M 3 slightly longer than 1 / 2 of vein M 2; abdomen has no yellow lateral margin, only with yellow lateral spots on tergites 3 – 4. In Rhaphiocerina hakiensis, upper 2 / 3 of postocular rim is yellow and lower 1 / 3 is black; mesonotum has a pair of yellow longitudinal stripes; vein M 3 no longer than 1 / 2 of vein M 2; abdomen has the broad yellow lateral margin, tergites 2 – 4 have stripe-like yellow lateral spots.	en	Li, Zhu, Yang, Ding, Zhang, Tingting (2016): Review of the genus Rhaphiocerina Lindner (Diptera: Stratiomyinae), with description of a new species. Zootaxa 4111 (1): 53-60, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4111.1.4
