[Short Note] The Identity of Shiraki's "Termitoxenia formosana" (Diptera: Phoridae)
R. Henry L. Disney
Field Studies Council Research Fellow, Department of Zoology, Cambridge University, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, England
Gui-Xiang Li
Guangdong Entomological Institute, 105 Xingang Road West, Guangzhou 510 260, China
Jung-Tai Chao
Division of Forest Protection, Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, 53 Nen-Hei Road, Taipei, Taiwan 100, R.O.C.
Clitelloxenia formosana (Shiraki) comb. n. is removed from the status of incertae sedis and is distinguished from the similar C. assmuthi (Wasmann) and several related species, following the collection of fresh material of Shiraki's species from the nests of the termites Odontotermes formosanus (Shiraki) and O. hainanensis (Light) in Taiwan and O. parallelus Li in mainland China. A neotype of Shiraki's species is designated.
Keywords
Termitoxeniinae, Isoptera, Termitidae
