A new species of black fly with a yellow thorax in the genus Prosimulium (Diptera: Simuliidae) in Japan

• Main Authors: Takaoka, Hiroyuki, Saito, Katsumi, Adler, Peter H., Baba, Minoru
• Format: Article
• Published: Magnolia Press 2018
• Subjects: R Medicine
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/20558/; https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4524.4.6

A new species of black fly, Prosimulium kazukii, is described based on female, male and pupal specimens collected from central Honshu, Japan. It is placed in the Prosimulium magnum species-group, and is characterized in the female and male by yellow thoraces, and in the pupa by the frons and dorsal...