Anbalagan Sankarappan, Vijayan Suruliyandi, Dinakaran Sundaram, Krishnan Muthukalingan
Department of Zoology, Government Arts College, Melur-625106, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Zootaxa. 2019 Feb 3;4551(4):479-486. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4551.4.8.
Simulium (Gomphostilbia) kumbakkaraiense sp. n. is described based on adults, pupae and mature larvae from Kumbakkarai stream, in the Palani Hills of Western Ghats, South India. This new species is placed in the Simulium batoense species-group of the subgenus Gomphostilbia Enderlein. This new species is characterized by a scutum with three brownish-black longitudinal vittae and hind basitarsus in the female 5.3 times as long as wide, and in male the large facets of the upper eye in 13 vertical columns and 14 horizontal rows, the respiratory gill with short common basal in the pupa and postgenal cleft arrow-head-shaped in the larva. Taxonomic notes are provided to distinguish this new species from related species. [Zoobank register: http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:C575FB25-B6B2-414B-AE11-0468A1871DFA].
基于采自印度南部西高止山脉帕拉尼山昆巴卡赖溪的成虫、蛹和成熟幼虫，描述了新物种昆巴卡赖蚋（Simulium (Gomphostilbia) kumbakkaraiense sp. n.）。这个新物种被归入恩德勒林（Enderlein）的戈姆福斯蚋亚属（Gomphostilbia）的巴托蚋物种组（Simulium batoense species-group）。该新物种的特征为：盾片有三条棕黑色纵纹；雌虫后基跗节长为宽的5.3倍；雄虫复眼上部的大面呈13列垂直和14行水平排列；蛹的呼吸鳃具短的共同基部；幼虫的后颊裂呈箭头状。提供了分类学注释以将该新物种与相关物种区分开来。[动物分类信息库注册编号：http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:C575FB25-B6B2-414B-AE11-0468A1871DFA]
