A new species of the genus Gondwanoscurus, and two new records of non-biting moth flies (Diptera: Psychodidae: Psychodinae) from Socotra Island

Abstract

Gondwanoscurus socotrensis sp. nov. is described and fi gured. Specimens were collected on Socotra Island, Yemen.

The genus Gondwanoscurus Ježek, 2002, with seven species (two from Malaysia, two from Thailand and three from North Borneo, Malaysia), was previously recorded only from the Oriental Region. In addition, two common species of moth fl ies are newly recorded for Socotra Island: Tinearia acanthostyla (Tokunaga, 1957) and T. alternata (Say, 1824)

Keywords

• Paramormiini
• Psychodini
• Gondwanoscurus
• new species
• taxonomy
• Yemen
• Socotra