Thressa cyanescens

Liu, Xiao-Yan, Yang, Ding & Nartshuk, Emilia P., 2011, Species of the genus Thressa Walker, 1860 from China (Diptera, Chloropidae), ZooKeys 129, pp. 29-48 : 41

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.129.1144

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scientific name

Thressa cyanescens
status

(Becker, 1916)

Thressa cyanescens (Becker, 1916)

Chalcidomyia cyanescens Becker, 1916: 440. Type locality: Taiwan (Holotypes deposited in Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest).

Thressa cyanescens (Becker): Sabrosky 1977: 319; Kanmiya 1983: 236; Nartshuk 1993: 114.

Diagnosis.

Thorax entirely shiny black. Legs yellow except fore coxae black, in male fore femora black except distal part yellow; in female, all femora black except distal part yellow. Wing hyaline without a brown spot near wing apex. Epandrium with 2 narrow bands of sclerite along posterodorsal notch. Cercus small with a concavity on ventral margin.

Distribution.

China: Taiwan; Japan.

Remarks.

Becker (1916) firstly described Chalcidomyia cyanescens from Taiwan. Sabrosky (1977) transferred it to Thressa . Kanmiya (1983) newly recorded Thressa cyanescens from Japan, and gave the figures of male genitalia and abdomen lateral view.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Chloropidae

Genus

Thressa