Leskia miranda Mesnil, 1973: 1129
Creators: name: Li, Yue
name: Dong, Ruiqing
name: Hao, Bo
name: Zhang, Chuntian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tachinidae
Leskia
Leskia miranda

description: Leskia miranda Mesnil, 1973 (New record for China)
Figs 25–36
Leskia miranda Mesnil, 1973: 1129. Type locality: Tsurugi, Honshu, Japan.
Herting, 1984: 127 (Palaearctic Catalogue). O’Hara, Shima & Zhang, 2009: 151 (Catalogue of China).
Tschorsnig & Richter, 1998: 784 (Palaearctic key).
Diagnosis. Male (Figs 29–36). Eyes bare. Antenna yellow, postpedicel brown on apical half, pedicel, thorax, abdomen and legs usually more or less yellow. Frons about 1/4 of head width or 2/3 of eye width, frontal vitta at narrowest point about 1/3 as wide as fronto-orbital plate. Lower margin of face protruding forward in lateral view. Antenna about as long as 2/3 of face height. Postpedicel 2.5–3 times as long as pedicel. Prementum about 3 times as long as wide. Genal height 0.3 of eye height, ocellar setae developed, about as long as upper frontal setae. Occiput with 2 to 3 rows of black hairs below postocular setae. Thoracic dorsum with 4 dark longitudinal vittae, 4 postpronotal setae, 3 strong basal setae set in straight line, 3 presutural and 3 postsutural dorsocentral setae, 0–1+3 postsutural intraalar setae; apical and lateral scutelar setae long hair-like, about 1/3 as long as subscutellae seta; 3 katepisterernal setae. Tegula reddish brown on basal 1/2, dark to dark brown on apical 1/2, basicosta reddish yellow, costal spine absent. Fore claw slightly longer than 5th tarsomere, fore tibia with 1 posterior seta, mid tibia with 1 anterodorsal seta, hind tibia with 1 anterodorsal, 2 posterodorsal and 1–2 anteroventral setae, 2 preapical dorsal setae, preapical anteroventral seta distinctly longer than preapical postoventral seta. Abdomen long ovate, syntergite 1+2 nearly excavate to posterior margin, with a dark longitudinal median vitta on tergites 3 and 4, which narrower than the distance between median marginal setae on tergite 3, tergite 5 densely covered with yellowish pruinosity, tergites 3 and 4 without median discal setae, tergites 3 to 5 usually with 2 brown lateral marginal markings.
Female (Figs 25–28). Frons slightly wider than eye width, 6–7 pairs of crossed frontal setae, upmost one strongest and reclinate, two outer orbital setae proclinate, one previtical seta reclinate, inner vertical seta strong and crossed, outer vertical seta about 1/2 as long as inner vertical seta, Prementum 3–4 times as long as wide. Legs yellow, claws shorter than 5th tarsomere, tarsi brownish, mid and hind femora brown at apex. Abdomen yellow, with a dark median longitudinal vitta and dark posterior transverse band on tergites 3 to 5, densely covered with grayish white pruinosity on median longitudinal vitta area of tergite 3 and anterior 4/5 of tergites 4 and 5. Other characters are same as male.
Specimens examined. CHINA: Chongqing, 1 male, Wuxi, Yintiaoling Nature Reserve, Guanshan Forestry Center, Shizhuzi, 1987–2154 m 110.15°E, 31.85°N, elev. 1987–2154 m, 11.VIII.2022, Y. Li. Sichuan: 1 male, Hongkou, elev. 1000–1150 m, 12.VIII.2009, Dujiangyan, Zhou YY; 1 female, Mount. Emei, elev. 1200–2500 m, 20.VIII.2013, C. T. Zhang; 1 male, Dujiangyan, 103.29°E, 30.55°N, elev. 900–1100 m, 26–28.VII.2015, Q. Wang. Hubei: 1 male, Shennongjia, Yinyuhe, 2200 m, 31.VII.2007, Q.F. Liu. Liaoning: 2 females, Benxi, Heshangmao Nature Reserve, 124.21°E, 42.16°N, elev. 588–650 m, 29–31.VIII.2020, C. T. Zhang and X.Y. Li; 1 female, Benxi, Heshangmao Nature Reserve, 124.21°E, 42.16°N, elev. 588–650 m, 5–6.IX.2020, Y.Z. Wang and B.H. Zhang.
Distribution. China (Chongqing, Sichuan, Hubei, Liaoning); Japan (Honshű, Kyűshű); Russia (Southern Far East).
description: Published as part of Li, Yue, Dong, Ruiqing, Hao, Bo & Zhang, Chuntian, 2023, Two new species and one newly recorded species of Tachinidae from Chongqing China (Diptera: Calyptratae), pp. 160-169 in Zootaxa 5257 (1) on pages 164-165, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5257.1.12, http://zenodo.org/record/7765723