Nasimyia megacephala
Creators: name: Yang, Zai-Hua
name: Hauser, Martin
name: Yang, Mao-Fa
name: Zhang, Ting-Ting
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Stratiomyidae
Nasimyia
Nasimyia megacephala

description: Nasimyia megacephala Ya n g & Ya n g, 2 0 10
(Fig. 34)
N. megacephala Yang & Yang, 2010: 63.
Nasimyia nigripennis Yang & Yang 2010. syn. nov.
Specimens examined. CHINA: 133, 6ƤƤ, Yunnan Province, Tengchong, Mt. Laifengshan, (25°01’N, 98°57’E), 29.V. – 3.VI.2009, Zaihua Yang & Bin Li leg (GUGC); 293, 12ƤƤ, Yunnan Province, Baoshan, Mts. Gaoligong (24°58’N, 98°48’E), 1800–2400m, 13.VI.2011, Zaihua Yang leg (GAFC); 33, same locality 13.VI.2011, Jiankun Long leg; same locality 13.VI.2011, Bin Zhang leg (GAFC); 33, 1Ƥ, Yunnan Province, Ruili, Mengxiu, Nanjingli village (24°06’N, 97°50’E), 1300–1450m, 07.VI.2011, Zaihua Yang leg (GAFC); 13, 4ƤƤ, Yunnan Province, Ruili, Mengxiu, Nanjingli village (24°06’N, 97°50’E), 1300–1450m, 07.VI.2011, Zaihua Yang leg (GAFC); 16ƤƤ, Yunnan Province, Yingjiang, Tongbiguan (24°36’N, 97°36’E), 1450–1700m, 03.VI.2011, Zaihua Yang leg (GAFC); 1 Ƥ, Yunnan Province, Xishuangbanna Natural Reserve, Xiao Meng Yang, (22°29’N, 101°05’E), 850 m, 1957. X.25, Lingchao Zang leg (IZCAS); 11 3, 3 ƤƤ, Yunnan Province, Xishuangbanna Natural Reserve Meng Yang, (22°29’N, 101°05’E), 850 m, 3.V.1957, Dahua Liu leg (IZCAS,); 1 3, Yunnan Province, Xishuangbanna Natural Reserve, Xiao Meng Yang, (22°29’N, 101°05’E), 850m, 3.V.1957, Fuji Pu leg (IZCAS,); 8 3, Yunnan Province, Xishuangbanna Natural Reserve, Xiao Meng Yang (22°29’N, 101°05’E), 850m, 3.V.1957, Shuyong Wang leg (IZCAS,); 12 3, Yunnan Province, Xishuangbanna Natural Reserve, Xiao Meng Yang (22°29’N, 101°05’E), 850m, 3.V. 31957, Lingchao Zang leg (IZCAS); 1 Ƥ, Yunnan Province, Xishuangbanna Natural Reserve, Menghun (21°50’N, 100°23’E), 1200 - 1400m, 1.VI.1958, Leyi Zheng leg (IZCAS); 2 ƤƤ, Yunnan Province, Xishuangbanna Natural Reserve, Menghun, (21°50’N, 100°23’E), 1200 - 1400m, 22.V.1958, Chunpui Hong leg (IZCAS); 1 Ƥ, Yunnan Province, Xishuangbanna Natural Reserve, Menghun, (21°50’N, 100°23’E), 1200 - 1400m, 17.V.1958, Xuwu Meng (IZCAS) leg; 1 Ƥ, Yunnan Province, Xishuangbanna Natural Reserve Yunjinghong (21°58’N, 100°48’E), 850 - 900m, 26.VI.1958, Yiran Zhang leg (IZCAS); 1 Ƥ, Yunnan Province, Xishuangbanna Natural Reserve, Damenglong, 640m, 28.IV.1957, Shuyong Wang leg (IZCAS); 1 3, Yunnan Province, Longling, (24°35’N, 98°41’E), 1600m, 15.V.1955, Xike Bu, Yue Wu leg (IZCAS); 1 3, Yunnan Province, Longling, (24°35’N, 98°41’E), 1600m, 19.V.1955, Yufeng Xue leg (IZCAS); 4 3, Yunnan Province, Jinping Meng La, (22°39’N, 103°05’E), 400m, 24.IV.1944, Keren Huang leg (IZCAS); 13, 1Ƥ, Yunnan Province, Jinping, Meng La (22°39’N, 103°05’E), 400m, 29.IV.1944, Keren Huang leg (IZCAS); 3 3, Guangxi Province, Daxin, Shuolong town, Detian waterfall, China / Vietnam border, (22°51′N, 106°43′E), 270m, 21.IV.2012, Zaihua Yang leg. (GAFC).
LAOS: 2 3, Oudomxai Prov. Namo Dist, Lao/ China border; el 1004m, (21°10'N, 101°46' E), 2.V.2004, leg. G.R. Ballmer (UCR).
Geographical distribution (Fig. 34). China (Yunnan), Laos.
Remarks. Careful reexamination of the specimens has shown that N. nigripennis is conspecific with, and therefore a junior synonym of, N. megacephala. The differences pointed out in the original description are just part of the natural variation in this species.
description: Published as part of Yang, Zai-Hua, Hauser, Martin, Yang, Mao-Fa & Zhang, Ting-Ting, 2013, The Oriental genus Nasimyia (Diptera: Stratiomyidae): Geographical distribution, key to species and descriptions of three new species, pp. 526-540 in Zootaxa 3619 (5) on pages 528-529, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3619.5.2, http://zenodo.org/record/221170