Amphicestonia Villeneuve, 1939

Gilasian, Ebrahim, Ziegler, Joachim & Parchami-Araghi, Mehrdad, 2022, The fauna of the family Tachinidae (Diptera) in Haftad-Qolleh Protected Area (Markazi Province), with forty-six new records from Iran and description of a new species, Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 8 (1), pp. 49-91 : 64

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.52547/jibs.8.1.49

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:834BE8A9-DC33-4207-8ECD-133EC927D2AD

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15809960

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038CCB50-FFDE-FF9A-AA2D-1556FD0AFD95

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Felipe

scientific name

Amphicestonia Villeneuve, 1939
status

 

Genus Amphicestonia Villeneuve, 1939 View in CoL

Diagnosis: Eye bare; parafacial bare; prosternum setose; scutum with 3 pairs of postsutural dorsocentral setae; first supra-alar seta longer than notopleural setae and longer than first intra-alar seta; katepisternum with 4 setae; scutellum entirely black; fourth wing costal section distinctly shorter than sixth costal section; wing cell r 4+5 open; hind tarsus of male usually with two rows of strong setulae ventrally; abdominal tergites 3 and 4 without median discal setae; ventral surface of abdominal tergite 4 of male concave, with a patch of fluffy setulae on each side.

Remark: This genus is newly recorded from Iran.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Tachinidae

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