Prosciara decamera Hippa & Vilkamaa, 1991

Shi, Kai, Huang, Junhao, Komarova, Lyudmila, Zhang, Sujiong & Wu, Hong, 2013, Review of the genus Prosciara Frey (Diptera, Sciaridae) from China, Zootaxa 3640 (3), pp. 301-342 : 340-341

Prosciara decamera Hippa & Vilkamaa, 1991

Hippa & Vilkamaa 1991: 146.

New material. 1 male, China, Yunnan province, Tengchong, Jietou, Shaba, Mt. Tiantaishan, sweep-net, 25°24.115ʹN, 98°42.615ʹE, 13.V.2009, Su-Jiong Zhang [SM00872]; 1 male, the same data but 2142 m, 25°24.254ʹN, 98°42.735ʹE [SM00874]; 1 male, the same data but 1879 m, 12.V.2009 [SM00864]; 2 males, China, Yunnan province, Baoshan, Nankang, Gaoligong Nature Park, 2181 m, sweep-net, 24°49.729ʹN, 98°46.074ʹE, 10.V.2009, Su-Jiong Zhang [SM00910, SM00913]; 1 male, China, Yunnan province, Baoshan, Longyang, Lujiang, Nankang, 1847 m, sweep-net, 24°48.376ʹN, 98°47.342ʹE, 9.V.2009, Su-Jiong Zhang [SM00835]; 1 male, China, Yunnan province, Honghe, Lvchun, Mt. Huanglianshan, yakou, 1950 m, sweep-net, 5.V.2011, Li-Hua Wang [SM01120].

Diagnosis. The species is distinguished by bare M and Cu wing veins; more than ten unusually slender megasetae on the very basally located dorsal lobe on the gonostylus; and a setose intercoxal lobe on the hypopygium.

Distribution. China (Yunnan, Fig. 24 ), Burma (Kambaiti).

Remarks. This species was first recorded in Kambaiti, Burma (Hippa & Vilkamaa 1991) and is new to China (Yunnan province). It doesn’t show distinct variation between the holotype and the Chinese specimens but the number of setae on the basal segment of the palpus and r-m on wings, which is two and 0–1 in the holotype, and 2– 3 and two in the Chinese specimens.

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FIGURE 24. Geographical distribution of Prosciara from China.