New species of <i>Plesioaxymyia</i> Sinclair (Diptera, Axymyiidae) from the Palaearctic Region, including an updated molecular phylogeny of the family.

ABSTRACT: The family Axymyiidae includes four extant genera and nine species known from the Holarctic and Oriental regions, with only one species Mesaxymyiakerteszi (Duda, 1930) occurring in Europe. The genus Plesioaxymyia Sinclair, 2013 was first discovered in Alaska in 1962, but officially described only many years later. Up to now, the genus included one species Plesioaxymyiavespertina Sinclair, 2013, known from two female specimens from western North America. During the study of the Diptera fauna in Paanajarvi National Park (Northwest Russia), one female specimen of Plesioaxymyia, was found. It differs from the Nearctic P.vespertina by details of its female terminalia and is recognized as a new species, herein described as Plesioaxymyiaimprevista sp.

SUBMITTER: Polevoi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12070067 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature