Shamshev I.V. 2024. Seven new species of dance flies of the subgenus Polyblepharis Bezzi, 1909 (Diptera: Empididae) from Mongolia and East Siberia // Russian Entomol. J. Vol.33. No.4: 496–512 [in English].
Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaja nab. 1, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia.
Igor Shamshev: shamshev@mail.ru https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3575-4243
doi: 10.15298/rusentj.33.4.13
ABSTRACT. Seven new species of the subgenus Polyblepharis Bezzi, 1909 of the genus Empis Linnaeus, 1758 are described from Mongolia and the East Siberia of Russia: Empis (Polyblepharis) bylyrensis sp.n. (Russia (Buryatia, Zabaykalskiy Territory)); E. (P.) mongolica sp.n. (Mongolia); E. (P.) subcurta sp.n. (Mongolia); E. (P.) subdepilis sp.n. (Mongolia, Russia (Amurskaya Province, Buryatia, Zabaykalskiy Territory)); E. (P.) subhaemi sp.n. (Mongolia, Russia (Zabaykalskiy Territory)); E. (P.) subtransbaicalica sp.n. (Mongolia, Russia (Buryatia, Irkutskaya Province, Yakutia)); E. (P.) tuvinica sp.n. (Russia (Tuva)). The subgenus Polyblepharis is recorded for the first time from Mongolia.
KEY WORDS. Diptera, Empididae, Empis, new species, Mongolia, Russia.