Details for Nephrotoma retenta
Name:Nephrotoma retenta Alexander, 1935
Publication:Philipp. J. Sci. 57: 133 (as Nephrotoma)
Status:Recognized taxon.
Classification:Family Tipulidae
Subfamily Tipulinae
Keys:Men et al., 2015b (Nephrotoma mainland China)
Distribution:China (Sichuan).
Region(s):Eastpalaearctic
General note:Described from the Szechwan-Tibet border, near Yien-Long-Shien; this refers to near Sanyanlong Township in present-day Jiulong County in Sichuan (Qicheng Yang, pers. comm. Nov. 2022, based on research including the diary of the collector, David Crockett Graham, in Walravens, 2006); the paratype-locality Yin-Kuan-Tsai is also in Sichuan.
Biology:this refers to Yingguanzhai in present-day Ganzi Prefecture in Sichuan (Qicheng Yang, pers. comm. Nov. 2022, based on research including the diary of the collector, David Crockett Graham, in Walravens, 2006)
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references:
Wing: Alexander, 1935f (orig descr)
Hypopygium: Alexander, 1935f (orig descr)
Citationson characters and taxonomy (mainly from 2000 onward):
Country not relevant
Characters. Liu, 2011: 212 (comparison) (in Chinese).
Characters. Men et al., 2023b: 255 (comparison).

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