Shimamyia, Huang & Tachi, 2024

Huang, Yu-Zen & Tachi, Takuji, 2024, A new genus of the tribe Blondeliini (Diptera: Tachinidae: Exoristinae) from the Oriental Region with morphological and molecular evidence, Zootaxa 5496 (2), pp. 151-171 : 164

Key to species of Shimamyia

1. Two katepisternal setae......................................................................... orientalis

- Three katepisternal setae............................................................................... 2

2. Male abdominal tergite 5 with dense recumbent hairs dorsally ( Fig. 8A ); female with telescopic postabdomen (elongate intersegmental membrane of segments 5 and 6, and sternite 6)............................................. exigua

- Male abdominal tergites 4 and 5 with dense recumbent hairs dorsally ( Figs. 8B–C ); female postabdomen not elongated.... 3

3. Gena 0.25–0.28 of eye height in male; male postabdomen with cerci rounded apically in dorsal view; surstylus about half as long as cercus, smoothly tapering in dorsal view, straight in lateral view........................... taiwanensis sp. nov.

- Gena 0.19 of eye height in male; cerci pointed apically in dorsal view; surstylus about as long as cercus, pointed apically in dorsal view, swollen at middle in lateral view............................................... vietnamensis sp. nov.

Figures

FIGURE 8. A–C Abdominal tergites 4 and 5 of male Shimamyia. A. Shimamyia exigua (Shima) comb. nov. B. Shimamyia taiwanensis sp. nov. C. Shimamyia vietnamensis sp. nov. Scale bar: 0.20 mm.