Two new species and one newly recorded species of Elaphropeza Macquart from Taiwan (Diptera, Empididae, Tachydromiinae)

Jinjing Wang; Lili Zhang; Ding Yang

doi:10.3897/zookeys.203.3284

Two new species and one newly recorded species of Elaphropeza Macquart from Taiwan (Diptera, Empididae, Tachydromiinae)

Zookeys. 2012:(203):15-25. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.203.3284. Epub 2012 Jun 20.

Authors

Jinjing Wang¹, Lili Zhang, Ding Yang

Affiliation

¹ Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China.

Abstract

Previously 11 Elaphropeza species were known from Taiwan. The following two species of the genus Elaphropeza are described: Elaphropeza flaviscutumsp. n. and Elaphropeza trimaculasp. n. One species, Elaphropeza plumata Yang, Merz & Grootaert, is newly recorded from Taiwan. A key to 14 known species of Elaphropeza from Taiwan is presented.

Keywords: Diptera; Elaphropeza; Empididae; Tachydromiinae; new species.