Elephantomyia
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiao
name: Li, Yan
name: Yang, Ding
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Limoniidae
Elephantomyia

description: Key to species/subspecies of genus Elephantomyia from China
1 Tarsi of legs with snowy white regions (figs. 1, 38, 41, 46, 52, 58).......... Elephantomyia (Elephantomyodes) ........ 2
- Tarsi of legs without snowy white regions (figs. 2, 7, 11, 22, 29, 34)................. Elephantomyia (s. str.)........ 5
2 First tarsi of legs with distal half snowy white (fig. 58); wing with only one dark spot on stigma (fig. 61).................................................................................................. E. tianmushana sp. nov.
- First tarsi of legs with distal 1/5–1/3 snowy white (figs. 38, 41, 46, 52); wing with dark spots on stigma and cell Sc (figs. 42, 49, 55).............................................................................................. 3
3 First tarsi of legs with distal 1/3 snowy white (figs. 38, 41); aedeagus relatively short, nearly 1.5–2.0 times as long as paramere (figs. 44, 45)............................................................................ E. angusticellula
- First tarsi of legs with distal 1/5–1/4 snowy white (figs. 46, 52); aedeagus long, nearly 3–4 times as long as paramere (figs. 50, 51, 56, 57).......................................................................... E. major ........ 4
4 Mesonotum uniformly brownish yellow without stripe (fig. 48)..................................... E. major major
- Mesonotum with a broad median darker stripe (fig. 54)........................................ E. major uniformis
5 Wing with Rs nearly in alignment with R4+5 and R2+3 arising almost perpendicularly from end of Rs (fig. 14)........ E. inulta
- Wing not as above..................................................................................... 6
6 Wing with broad bands along cord, m-m and basal section of M3 (figs. 4, 36)...................................... 7
- Wing without broad band along cord, m-m or basal section of M3 (figs. 9, 14, 25)................................... 8
7 Body generally brownish black to black (fig. 2); wing with broad bands along CuA (fig. 4)............... E. carbo carbo
- Body generally yellow to brownish yellow (fig. 34); wing without conspicuous bands along CuA (fig. 36)...... E. serotina
8 Rostrum nearly half as long as body (fig. 29)....................................................... E. luculenta
- Rostrum nearly as long as body or longer (figs. 7, 22)......................................................... 9
9 Flagellomeres nearly equal in length except second flagellomere short and nearly 2/3 as long as first flagellomere (fig. 8); wing with basal section of CuA1 at 3/5 of cell dm (fig. 9); abdomen generally black (fig. 7)........................ E. insolita
- Flagellomeres nearly equal in length except first flagellomere elongate and nearly 1.5 times as long as second flagellomere (fig. 23); wing with basal section of CuA1 at 1/3 of cell dm (fig. 25); abdomen generally brownish yellow (fig. 22)......................................................................................... E. laohegouensis sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Zhang, Xiao, Li, Yan & Yang, Ding, 2015, A review of the genus Elephantomyia Osten Sacken from China, with descriptions of two new species (Diptera, Limoniidae), pp. 553-572 in Zootaxa 3919 (3) on pages 554-555, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3919.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/239555