Simulium ( Gomphostilbia ) tanahrataense Takaoka, Sofian-Azirun

Takaoka, Hiroyuki, Ya’Cob, Zubaidah & Sofian-Azirun, Mohd, 2018, Classification, annotated list and keys for the black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) of Peninsular Malaysia, Zootaxa 4498 (1), pp. 1-65 : 12

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4498.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5980444
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03951057-FFC2-CA62-FF3D-16CDFA9BF80F
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scientific name	Simulium ( Gomphostilbia ) tanahrataense Takaoka, Sofian-Azirun
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9. Simulium ( Gomphostilbia) tanahrataense Takaoka, Sofian-Azirun View in CoL & Ya’cob, 2014

Simulium ( Gomphostilbia) tanahrataense: Takaoka et al., 2014f: 61 View in CoL –63 (Male and pupa).

This species was described from two males reared from pupae ( Takaoka et al., 2014f). Its female and larva are unknown. The male of S. ( G.) tanahrataense View in CoL is similar to those of S. ( G.) sofiani View in CoL and S. ( G.) lurauense View in CoL in having a similar number of enlarged upper-eye facets, a dark scutum without longitudinal vittae and a similar shape of the ventral plate, but is clearly distinguished from the latter two species by the bicolored, much widened hind basitarsus.

The pupae were collected from a small stream at high elevation ( 1,470 m) in Cameron Highlands.