Dexopollenia Townsend, 1917

Liu, Shixin, Ji, Honghu, Li, Wenliang & Yao, Gang, 2025, Three new species of Polleniidae (Diptera) from China, ZooKeys 1228, pp. 99-114 : 99-114

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1228.129419

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D8201D9E-0B59-4F8C-9EC3-83C44A030BC4

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14888252

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9552CD03-ED74-55D5-AA8C-1314EFA4CA68

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ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Dexopollenia Townsend, 1917
status

 

Genus Dexopollenia Townsend, 1917 View in CoL

Dexopollenia Townsend, 1917: 201. Type species: Dexopollenia testacea Townsend, 1917 (original designation). View in CoL

Diagnosis.

Adults of this genus can be recognized by the combination of the following characters: body length 5–10 mm; eyes with hairs or bare; males frons narrow, interfrontalia surface disappears at narrowest part parafacial bare, arista plumose, vibrissa approaches epistoma; thorax with golden tomentum or soft hairs, propleura and basisternum of prothorax bare; postalar declivity with hairs, spl 1 + 1; subcostal sclerite with yellow hairs but no black setulae; radial stem vein and subalar knob bare, 2 R 5 open, M 1 + 2 tip gently curved forward in a wide obtuse angle or very gently in an arc, lower calypter bare; T 3–5 with strong marginal bristles on the backside ( Fan 1997).

Distribution.

Australasian, Oriental and Palaearctic.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Polleniidae

Loc

Dexopollenia Townsend, 1917

Liu, Shixin, Ji, Honghu, Li, Wenliang & Yao, Gang 2025
2025
Loc

Dexopollenia

Townsend CHT 1917: 201
Townsend, 1917
1917