Four new species of the genus Luzonomyza Malloch (Diptera, Lauxaniidae) from China

Abstract

Four species of the genus Luzonomyza Malloch, 1929 from southwest China are described as new to science: Luzonomyza vittifacies Li & Yang, sp. nov., L. serrata Li & Yang, sp. nov., L. honghensis Li & Yang, sp. nov., and L. brevis Li & Yang, sp. nov. A key to Luzonomyza species is also presented.

Seven new species of the subgenus Homoneura Malloch (Diptera, Lauxaniidae, Homoneura) from Jiangjin District, southwestern Chongqing, China

“…The Lauxaniid fauna in southwestern China is relatively well-known, but new species are continuously discovered in the humid parts and especially in southern Yunnan and southwestern Guizhou, where significantly higher species richness and endemism are found ( Gao and Yang 2002 , 2005 ; Shi et al 2009 , 2017a , 2020 ; Li and Yang 2012 , 2013 , 2015 ; Shi and Yang 2015 ; Li et al 2019 , 2020a , 2020b , 2020c , 2020d , 2020e , 2020f , 2021a , 2021b , 2023 ; Zhao et al 2022 ). Compared to these areas, research on the diversity of lauxaniid flies in Chongqing is relatively weak, and currently only nine species in five genera are known; four Homoneura species were described more recently by You et al (2023) from Yintiaoling Nature Reserve, Chongqing, China.…”