Chloropsina Becker, 1911

Riccardi, Paula Raile & Ang, Yuchen, 2024, New species and new records of Chloropinae from Singapore (Diptera: Chloropidae), Zootaxa 5458 (1), pp. 83-92 : 84

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5458.1.4

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11373188

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scientific name

Chloropsina Becker, 1911
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Chloropsina Becker, 1911 View in CoL

Genus overview. Belongs to the tribe Chloropsinini ( Riccardi &Amorim 2020) . Restricted to the Eastern hemisphere with 15 species occurring in the Oriental region (von Tschirnhaus, unpublished data). Immature stages have been found in Citrus roots and shoots of the grass Paspalum L. ( Ismay et al. 2021). However, the feeding habits of most species are unknown. The diagnostic morphological features of Chloropsina include wing with cell bm+dm narrow ( Fig. 1A View FIGURE 1 ); gena narrow to linear ( Figs. 1A View FIGURE 1 , 2A View FIGURE 2 ); postpedicel usually oval; tibial organ narrow; male terminalia with band-shaped anal sclerites, surstylus short, with wide base and apex with spines (see Ismay et al. 2021; Riccardi & Amorim 2020).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Chloropidae

SubFamily

Chloropinae

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