title: One new species of the subgenus Hexatoma (Eriocera) Macquart (Diptera, Limoniidae) from China with a key to Chinese species.
abstract: One new species of the subgenus Eriocera Macquart, 1838, Hexatoma (Eriocera) cleopatroides Men, sp. n. (Southern China: Anhui) is described and illustrated. A key to all of 78 known species from China in the subgenus is provided, which was solely based on literatures. The new species is similar to Hexatoma (Eriocera) cleopatra Alexander, 1933, but distinguishes from the latter by the prescutum entirely black with two ill-defined gray stripes, by the legs with fore and middle femora brown in basal half, black in apical half, with hind femora brown in basal one-fourth, and by the wings with cells c and sc more yellowish brown than the ground color.
authors: School of Life Sciences, Anqing Normal University, Anqing, Anhui 246011, P.R. China.
authors: Qiu-Lei
authors: QL
authors: Men
authors: School of Life Sciences, Anqing Normal University, Anqing, Anhui 246011, P.R. China.
authors: Dao-Ping
authors: DP
authors: Yu
keywords: Crane flies; Nematocera; Tipuloidea; taxonomy