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Nanna bispinosa Malloch 1920

Description

Nanna bispinosa (Malloch, 1920)

Figs 82–87.

bispinosa Malloch, 1920: 285 (Amaurosoma). Type-locality: “Saldovia, Alaska” (USA).

Remarks. Noted by Ozerov (2010d: 7) for European part of Russia from Karelia.

Material examined. Karelia: 4 km N of Medvezh'egorsk (62.9171N 34.4548E), 15.V.–16.VI.1991, Polevoy (1 ♀, ZMUM); Tatarstan: Volzhsko-Kamskiy reserve, Lake Raifa (55.897357N 48.733022E), 8.VI.1982, Basov (1 ♂, ZMUM).

Diagnostic description. Body-length 3.0– 4.5 mm. Head. Frons black in upper half and reddish-yellow in lower half. 3 orbital setae present. Antenna black. Postpedicel with acutely angled upper apical corner, approximately 2.5 times as long as wide, in male wider than in female. Thorax black, grey dusted, but scutum with two shining spots, also anepisternum, katepisternum and anepimeron partly shining. Proepisternum with hairs in central part. Katepisternum with 2 strong setae (black in female and pale in male), anterior katepisternal absent. Legs yellow, only mid and hind coxae, and tarsi slightly darkened; fore femur sometimes with dark stripe posterodorsally. Fore femur with 2 anteroventral setae (Fig. 82). Hind tibia with apical posteroventral seta, which is shorter than anteroventral apical seta. Wing tinged with brownish. Abdomen black, greyish dusted. Male sternite 4 oval, approximately 1.5 times as long as wide (Fig. 86). Male sternite 5 with black lobes, as in Fig. 83. Epandrium, cerci and surstyli as in Figs 84, 85. Female sternite 8 as two small separate sclerites.

Distribution. Russia (Fig. 87): Karelia, Tatarstan.—Scandinavia, North America.

Notes

Published as part of Ozerov, A. L. & Krivosheina, M. G., 2015, A review of the genera Cleigastra Macquart, Gonarcticus Becker, Gonatherus Rondani, Hexamitocera Becker, Nanna Strobl, Orthacheta Becker and Spathephilus Becker (Diptera, Scathophagidae) of Russia, pp. 201-258 in Zootaxa 4012 (2) on page 224, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4012.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/236912

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Scathophagidae
Genus
Nanna
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Malloch
Species
bispinosa
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Nanna bispinosa Malloch, 1920 sec. Ozerov & Krivosheina, 2015

References

  • Malloch, J. R. (1920) XII. Descriptions of Diptera of the families Anthomyidae and Scatophagidae. The Ohio Journal of Science, 20 (7), 267 - 391.
  • Ozerov, A. L. (2010 d) A Review of Palaearctic species of the genus Nanna Strobl, 1894 (Diptera, Scathophagidae) with shining stripes or spots on scutum. Far Eastern Entomologist, 214, 1 - 8.