Simulium (asiosimulium) furvum, a new species of black fly (diptera: Simuliidae) from Thailand

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Hiroyuki Takaoka, Wichai Srisuka, Atiporn Saeung, Wej Choochote
• التنسيق: دورية
• منشور في: 2018
• الموضوعات: Agricultural and Biological Sciences; Immunology and Microbiology; Medicine; Veterinary
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84878304307&origin=inward; http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/52114
• المؤسسة: Chiang Mai University

Simulium (Asiosimulium) furvum sp. nov. (Diptera: Simuliidae) is described from female, male, pupal, and larval specimens collected from Maewa National Park, Lampang Province, Thailand. This new species represents the fourth member of the subgenus Asiosimulium Takaoka & Chochoote, one of two small black fly subgenera endemic in the Oriental Region. It is characterized by a pear-shaped spermatheca in the female; a ventral plate in the male with a laterally compressed median keel directed ventrally and with a deep notch posteromedially, and aedeagal membrane with stout spines; and by 22 gill filaments in the pupa. Taxonomic notes are provided to separate this new species from three known species, Simulium (Asiosimulium) oblongum Takaoka & Choochote and Simulium (Asiosimulium) wanchaii Takaoka & Choochote, both from Thailand, and Simulium (Asiosimulium) suchitrae Takaoka from Nepal. © 2013 Entomological Society of America.