Phyllomya takanoi Mesnil, 1970

Li, Junjian, Li, Yue, Nie, Xutong & Zhang, Chuntian, 2024, One new species of Imitomyia Townsend and five newly recorded species of Dexiinae (Diptera: Tachinidae) from China, Zootaxa 5448 (1), pp. 102-116 : 110

Phyllomya takanoi Mesnil, 1970

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Phyllomya takanoi Mesnil, 1970: 119 (as Phyllomyia ). Type locality: Japan, Hokkaido, Nukabira .

Phyllomya takanoi : Mesnil 1975: 1353 (Palaearctic Fliegen); Herting 1984: 156 (Palearctic catalog); Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 388 (Palaearctic catalog); Shima 2014: 837 (Japanese catalog); O’Hara, Henderson & Wood 2020: 163 (Checklist of Tachinidae ); Shima, Zhang & Tachi 2022: 443 (Old world Phyllomya ).

Material examined. CHINA: 1♂, Tiejiashu, Taibai Mountains , 1993m, 33˚51ʹN, 107˚50ʹE, Zhouzhi County, Qinling Mountains , Shaanxi, 18.VIII.2014, HC Liang .

Distribution. China (Shaanxi), Japan (Hokkaidō, Honshū, Kyūshū), Russia (S. Far East).

Diagnosis. This species can be diagnosed by the key to Old World species of Phyllomya in Shima, Zhang and Tachi (2022). Body length: 6.4–11.1 mm. Vertex about 0.21 of head width in male of Chinese specimens. no proclinate orbital setae in male, 2 in female; arista short plumose. Whitish hairs on fronto-orbital plate, parafacial, pleural region of thorax, coxae, ventroproximal portion of femora, 1st abdominal sternite and venter of syntergite 1+2. 1 presutural and zero postsutural acrostichal seta; Tegula and basicosta black; costagial setae long and strong, at least one of them extending well beyond humeral vein; base of vein R4+5 with only a few fine setulae. Legs black; fore claws and pulvilli as long as 5th tarsomere; mid tibia with 2 anterodorsal, hind tibia with 3 preapical dorsal setae. Abdomen nearly cylindrical, with a row of marginal setae on syntergite 1+2 to 5th tergite; syntergite 1+2 not excavated to posterior margin, without median discal seta, 3rd to 5th tergite each with 2 median discal setae. For male and female terminalia see Shima (2022: 417, 420, 430, 433, 443).