Pilaria sarawakiensis n. sp. (Diptera, Limoniidae) from Borneo(Malaysia, Sarawak)

摘要

A new recent species Pilaria sarawakiensis n. sp. (Diptera, Limoniidae, Limno-philinae) from the Oriental region (Borneo, Malaysia) is described and compared to the congeners.The genus Pilaria SlNTENIS, 1889 (Limoniidae, Limnophilinae) is distributedworldwide with the exception of Antarctica and comprises 47 extant species and two subspecies mainly from the Palearctic (17 species) and Nearctic (15 species) regions. From Australia and Oceania only one species of the genus is known, and from the Neotropic only two species (OOSTERBROEK 2014). From the Oriental region seven species have been described (OOSTERBROEK 2014), and from Borneo (Malaysia) EDWARDS (1926) indicated only one species Pilaria melanota ALEXANDER (1922), originally described from Japan.