One new species and new records of three species of the genus Forcipomyia Meigen, 1818 (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from West Bengal, India

By

Pal, Gouri Sankar
Brahma, Shubhranil
Hazra, Niladri

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2023-2-9

Original Publication

Evolutionary systematics

Volume

7

Series / Issue

Issue: 1

Pages

83--89

Subjects

Biting midges , Dooars , Dycea , Eastern Himalayas , Euprojoannisia , Gangetic plains , new records , new species

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Hamburg Centrum für Naturkunde (CeNak) 2017-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/evolsyst.7.97331

 

Abstract

Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) hispida, a new species from the Dooars region of West Bengal, is described and illustrated here based on morphological and molecular data. Among the three newly recorded species, Forcipomyia (Dycea) hamoni de Meillon was known from the Eastern Himalayas while F. (Euprojoannisia) calamistrata Debenham & Wirth and F. (E.) fuscimana (Kieffer) were from the Gangetic plains of West Bengal. The supplementary descriptions and illustrations of the known species are also presented here. DNA barcoding of two newly recorded species of the subgenus Euprojoannisia Brèthes is also obtained for the first time.