Rhodesiella scutellata

Xu, Yanling & Yang, Ding, 2005, Species of Rhodesiella from Guangdong, South China (Diptera: Chloropidae), Zootaxa 1046, pp. 49-53 : 50

Rhodesiella scutellata (de Meijere)

Meroscinis scutellata de Meijere, 1908. Tijdschr. Ent., 51: 172. Type localities: Semarang and Batavia, Java.

Rhodesiella scutellata (de Meijere): Sabrosky, 1940. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (11) 6: 425.

Diagnosis. Frontal triangle large and polished metallic­blue; antenna with basal 2 segments blackened; hind femur thickened, about 3.5 times as long as broad, bearing a row of denticles on its ventral surface; in male hind femur with 2 spines basoventrally; M1+2 forecurved basally.

Specimen examined. 1 male, China: Guangdong: Zengcheng, Nankunshan, 2003. VII. 14 ~15. Xingyue Liu.

Distribution. China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan), Borneo, India, Indonesia, Java, Malaya, Philippines, Sumatra, Hawaiian Islands, New Guinea.