Motamedinia Behnam, Skevington Jeffrey H, Kelso Scott
Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Plant Protection Research Department, South Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, AREEO, Birjand, Iran.
PeerJ. 2020 Feb 18;8:e8511. doi: 10.7717/peerj.8511. eCollection 2020.
Species of the distinctive and cosmopolitan genus Skevington, 2001 in the Middle East are revised. Seven species are documented, and three new species, sp. nov., sp. nov. and . sp. nov., are described, and one synonym, Motamedinia & Kehlmaier, 2017, syn. nov. is proposed, based on sequence information from the mitochondrial COI barcoding gene and morphological parameters. Diagnoses, illustrations and distributional data are provided for all studied species. Descriptions of new species as well as an identification key to all known species in the Middle East are also provided.
对中东地区2001年建立的独特且分布广泛的斯凯夫廷属（Skevington）物种进行了修订。记录了7个物种，描述了3个新物种，即[新物种名称1]、[新物种名称2]和[新物种名称3]，并基于线粒体细胞色素氧化酶亚基I（COI）条形码基因的序列信息和形态学参数提出了1个新异名，即Motamedinia & Kehlmaier, 2017，新异名。提供了所有研究物种的诊断、图示和分布数据。还提供了新物种的描述以及中东地区所有已知物种的鉴定检索表。
