Metalimnobia
Creators: name: Mao, Meng
name: Yang, Ding
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Limoniidae
Metalimnobia

description: Key to species of subgenus Metalimnobia from China
1. Wing brightly yellowish hyaline with some brown pattern.......................................................................................... 2
- Wing brownish hyaline with some darker distinct spots in main radial field............................................................... 3
2. Femora dark brown, with one subapical yellow ring. Inner gonostylus divided into three lobes .................................. ............................................................................................................... M. xanthopteroides xanthopteroides (Riedel)
- Femora yellow with tip brown. Inner gonostylus undivide (Fig. 9) ........................................ M. bifasciata (Schrank)
3. Sc1 ending before fork of Rs. Inner gonostylus with innermost lobe deeply splited into two divergent blades ............. ............................................................................................................................................. M. improvisa (Alexander)
- Sc1 ending just beyond fork of Rs (Figs. 1–7). Inner gonostylus with innermost lobe unsplited ................................. 4
4. Femora with two distinct dark rings. Paramere with stem strongly sinuous, tip of paramere cuspidate (Fig. 18)......... ...................................................................................................................................... M. quadrimaculata (Linnaeus)
- Femora with one distinct dark ring at tip, other dark ring indistinct or totally missing. Paramere not as above ......... 5
5. Femora with first dark ring totally missing. Wing without seams and irregular clouds (Fig. 2).................................... ................................................................................................................................................ M. yunnanica (Edwards)
- Femora with one indistinct ring at 4/5 length of femora. Wing with seams and irregular clouds................................ 6
6. Wing microtomentose, without small dark spots between base of cell R and origin of Rs (Fig. 5)............................... .............................................................................................................................................. M. rectangularis sp. nov.
- Wing not microtomentose, with some small dark spots between base of cell R and origin of Rs (Figs. 4, 6–7)......... 7
7. Innermost lobe of inner gonostylus coalited with outer gonostylus. Paramere with tip flattened (Fig. 30)................... ............................................................................................................................................. M. quadrinotata (Meigen)
- Innermost lobe of inner gonostylus disjointed with outer gonostylus. Paramere not as above.................................... 8
8. Outer gonostylus slender. Paramere with stem slightly sinuous, gradually narrowing to tip, inner apical margin rounded (Fig. 22) .......................................................................................................................... M. impubis sp. nov.
- Outer gonostylus broader. Paramere subtriangular, with tip narrow and acute (Fig. 34) .............. M. tenua Savchenko
description: Published as part of Mao, Meng & Yang, Ding, 2010, Species of the genus Metalimnobia Matsumura from China (Diptera, Limoniidae), pp. 1-16 in Zootaxa 2344 on page 2, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.193362