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Rhamphomyia (Rhamphomyia) morio

Description

Rhamphomyia (Rhamphomyia) morio (Zetterstedt)

(Fig. 55)

Rhamphomyza morio Zetterstedt, 1838: 565. Type locality (by lectotype designation): Alteidet, Norway. Other references: Collin, 1961: 399 (type data); Barták, 1981: 395 (lectotype designation).

Rhamphomyza villosa Zetterstedt, 1838: 563. Type locality: “Dowrefjell Norvegiae (Lappon. Norvegica)”, Norway. Other references: Collin, 1961: 399 (type data); Barták, 1981: 396 (holotype data).

Rhamphomyza fumipennis Zetterstedt, 1859: 5019. Type locality: “Lapponia Umensi, ad Tarna”, Sweden. Other references: Collin, 1961: 399 (type data); Barták, 1981: 396 (holotype data).

Rhamphomyia (Alpinomyia) morio (Zetterstedt): Frey, 1956: 573 (revision).

Rhamphomyia (Rhamphomyia) morio (Zetterstedt): Frey, 1922: 77 (key); Collin, 1961: 397 (revision); Gorodkov & Kovalev, 1969: 635 (key); Barták, 1981: 395 (revision), 1982: 408 (revision); Chvála & Wagner, 1989: 287 (catalogue); Yang et al., 2007: 185 (catalogue); Shamshev, 2016: 78 (checklist).

Material examined. RUSSIA. Murmanskaya Prov. (Kildin Island): 13.vii.1908, L. Bianki (1 ♂, ZIN).

Recognition. Large (wing length 6–7.5 mm) blackish grey, dark-legged, black setose flies. Male (Fig. 55): holoptic, eyes not quite touching; antenna black, scape nearly 3X longer than pedicel, both with long setae; labrum about 1.5X longer than head height; palpus black, long, with numerous long fine setae; thorax mostly densely greyish pruinescent, scutum greyish brown, somewhat lustrous; prosternum bare, upper proepisternum in front of spiracle with several long fine setae; mesonotal setae intermixed with additional long fine setae, often hardly differentiated, 6–8 sctl; acr long, fine, 2–3-serial, presutural dc slightly longer than acr, 3–4-serial, not separated by bare space from supra-alars anteriorly; legs black, long, slender, mostly shiny to subshiny (except coxae); fore femur covered with dense, very long, fine, irregularly spread setae posteroventrally; hind femur with several anterodorsal setae on about apical half, 4–8 strong short anteroventral setae over entire femur length and some similar setae posteriorly, only pale pilose ventrally; all tibiae with rows of numerous very long strong setae dorsally, hind tibia with 1 long seta in posteroapical comb. fore and hind basitarsi with some longer setae dorsally; wing faintly brownish infuscate, CuA+CuP (anal vein) complete, entirely sclerotized, 1 long basal costal seta present, axillary incision very acute, halter brown; abdomen uniformly light grey pruinescent, denser on sternites; tergites somewhat lustrous, with very long posteromarginal setae; terminalia (Barták 1981: 396, fig. 17a) very similar to R. albosegmentata.

Distribution. Palaearctic; Fennoscandia, Great Britain, mountains of Central Europe, northern European Russia.

Species unplaced to subgenus

Notes

Published as part of Shamshev, Igor V., Sinclair, Bradley J. & Khruleva, Olga A., 2020, The empidoid flies (Diptera: Empidoidea, exclusive of Dolichopodidae) of the Russian Arctic islands and Svalbard Archipelago, pp. 1-75 in Zootaxa 4848 (1) on pages 50-51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4848.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4406987

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ZIN
Event date
1908-07-13
Family
Chironomidae
Genus
Rhamphomyia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Zetterstedt
Species
morio
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
1908-07-13

References

  • Zetterstedt, J. W. (1838) Sectio tertia. Diptera. Dipterologia Scandinaviae amicis et popularibus carissimus. In: Insecta Lapponica. L. Voss, Lipsiae (Leipzig), pp. 477 - 868.
  • Collin, J. E. (1961) Empididae. In: British flies. Vol. 6. University Press, Cambridge, 782 pp.
  • Bartak, M. (1981) A revision of the Rhamphomyia albosegmentata - group (Diptera, Empididae), with descriptions of new species. Acta Universitatis Carolinae Biologica, 11, 361 - 407.
  • Zetterstedt, J. W. (1859) s. n. In: Diptera Scandinaviae disposita et descripta. (Part.) Tomus tridecimus [sic!] seu Supplementum Quartum, continens addenda, corrigenda & emendanda tomis duodecim prioribus. una cum conspectus omnium generum. ex Officina Lundbergiana, sumtibus auctoris, Lundae (Lund), pp. I-XVI + 4943 - 6190.
  • Frey, R. (1956) 28. Empididae. Die Fliegen der palaearktischen Region, 4 (4): 577 - 639, Taf. 55 - 57 (Lfg. 188).
  • Frey, R. (1922) Vorarbeiten zu einer Monographie der Gattung Rhamphomyia Meig. (Dipt., Empididae). Notulae entomologicae, 2, 1 - 10 + 33 - 45 + 65 - 77.
  • Gorodkov, K. B. & Kovalev, V. G. (1969) 44. Fam. Empididae. In: Bey-Bienko, G. Y. (Ed.), Keys to Insects of the European Part of the USSR. 5 (1). Nauka, Moscow / Leningrad, pp. 573 - 670. [in Russian, English translation: 1988, pp. 886 - 1025]
  • Chvala, M. & Wagner, R. (1989) Empididae. In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera. Vol. 6. Therevidae - Empididae. Elsevier Science Publishing, Amsterdam, pp. 228 - 336.
  • Yang, D., Zhang, K., Yao, G. & Zhang, J. (2007) World Catalog of Empididae (Insecta: Diptera). China Agricultural University Press, Beijing, 599 pp.
  • Shamshev, I. V. (2016) An annotated checklist of empidoid flies (Diptera: Empidoidea, except Dolichopodidae) of Russia. Proceedings of the Russian Entomological Society, 87, 3 - 183.