Gavryushin D.I.*, Ozerov A.L. 2025. A new species of the genus Xiriella Frey, 1964 (Diptera: Platystomatidae) // Russian Entomol. J. Vol.34. No.4: 563–566 [in English].
Zoological Museum, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Bolshaya Nikitskaya 2, Moscow 125009 Russia.
* corresponding author
Dmitry Gavryushin: dmitry_gavryushin@yahoo.com
Andrey Ozerov: ozerov24455@yandex.ru; ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0889-5024
doi: 10.15298/rusentj.34.4.14
ABSTRACT. A new species of Xiriella Frey, 1964 (Diptera: Platystomatidae) is described from Nepal and Vietnam. Illustrations of head, wing, and terminalia of both sexes are provided; characters to distinguish the new species from its congeners are supplied.
KEY WORDS: Diptera, Tephritoidea, Platystomatidae, Xiriella, signal flies, Nepal, Vietnam, Oriental region, taxonomy, description, new species.