我国海南岛发现蠓亚科一新属——华蠓属（Sinicohelea Yu，Wang et Tan gen．nov．）（双翅目：蠓科）

2009年7月4日在海南省五指山作蠓类调查,采获的蠓类中有1只微小浅色的雄蠓,经分类研究确认是蠓科（Ceratopogonidae）蠓亚科（Ceratopogoninae）的新属,命名为华蠓属Sinicohelea Yu,Wang et Tan gen.nov.）,其模式标本是1只雄虫,命名为选举华蠓Sinicohelea xuanjui Yu,Wang et Chen n.sp.）,此蠓的主要特征：眼裸无毛,触须第3节基部密布感觉器;翅狭长,仅1个较宽的径室,无中2脉,中3＋4脉和肘2脉,大毛仅见于翅前缘、径脉以及中1脉中部和肘1脉基部.各足一致浅色,爪細長,基部有显著膨大粗鈍的爪基齿,其上有柔毛;前足胫节端部有一列短小梳齿.雄虫尾器第9背板桃形,第9腹板后缘中部有1长而端园的突出,向后延伸覆盖阳茎中叶;阳基侧突全分离.属、种名词源：取希腊文中国Sinicus,命名新属,新种以模式标本采获者徐选举先生之名命名,以表示对其给予本研究工作热情支持的敬意.模式标本收藏于军事医学科学院微生物流行病研究所医学昆虫标本馆.

SINICOHELEA,A NEW GINUS OF BITING MIDGES OF THE SUBFAMILY CERATOPOGONINAE (DIPTERA:CERATOPOGONIDAE) FROM HAINAN PROVENCE,CHINA

Sinicohelea Yu, Wang and Tan new genus, with type-species Sinicoheleaa xuanjui Yu, Wang et Chen n. sp. from Hainan Island is described and illustrated, it differentiated from other genus of Ceratopogoninae with the following combination of characters. Eyes bare, palpus third segment some swollen, with sensilla scattered over much of basal surface. Wing hyaline, with single radial cell, veins M2, M3 ＋ 4 and Cu2 absent. Legs fore tibial comb with 13 minima teeth, claws slender and equal on all legs, each talon with a powerful and short, blunt basal tooth. Hypopygium tergite 9 somewhat peach-shaped, sternite 9 with distinct rounded median caudal process and over aedeagus. The type specimens is deposited in the Collection of Medical Entomology of Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology.