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Nanna obscuripes Becker 1915

Description

Nanna obscuripes (Becker, 1915)

Figs 140–145.

obscuripes Becker, 1915: 64 (Acerocnema). Type-locality: “Tundra des Fl. Kara” [Valley of the River Nyarma-Yaga [Nyarmayakha], 80 m (about 68°36′N, 65°57′E, see Sorokina & Pont, 2014)] (Russia: Tumen' Oblast).

indotatum Engelmark, 1999: 163 (Nanna). Type-locality: Ayon Island (69.7833N 168.5666E), Chukotka (Russia).

Remarks. Reported by Becker (1915: 64, 65) from Tumen' Oblast and by Engelmark (1999: 163, 164) from Chukotka.

Material examined. Chukotka: Kolyuchin Island (67.4647N 174.6178W) (1 ♂, 3 ♀♀, ZISP); Krasnoyarsk Kray: River Nizhnyaya Agapa about 40 km lower of springhead (~ 70.0972N 86.6883E), 12–14.VII.1973, V. Zherikhin and I. Sukacheva (2 ♂♂, ZMUM).

Diagnostic description. Body-length about 4 mm. Head. Frons black, only lower quarter always yellow, grey dusted. 3 orbital setae present. Antenna black. Postpedicel with acutely angled upper apical corner, approximately 2–2.5 times as long as wide. Thorax black, extensively grey dusted. Proepisternum with hairs in central part. Katepisternum with 2–3 strong (anterior katepisternal may be absent) pale setae. Legs. All coxae blackish; femora black, but narrowly yellow apically; tibiae yellow, usually mid and hind tibiae darkened on apical half; tarsi darkened. Fore femur without anteroventral setae (Fig. 140). Hind tibia without apical posteroventral seta. Wing clear. Abdomen black, greyish dusted. Male sternite 4 rectangular, slightly longer than wide (Fig. 144). Male sternite 5 with black lobes, as in Fig. 141. Epandrium, cerci and surstyli as in Figs 142, 143.

Female unknown.

Distribution. Russia (Fig. 145): Chukotka, Krasnoyarsk Kray, Tyumen' Oblast.

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 240, 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
Becker
Species
obscuripes
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Nanna obscuripes Becker, 1915 sec. Ozerov & Krivosheina, 2015

References

  • Becker, T. (1915) Cyclorrhapha schizophora. Holometopa. In: Becker, Th., Dziedzicki, H., Schnabl, J. & Villeneuve, J. P. (Eds.), Resultats scientifiques de l'Expedition des freres Kuznecov (Kouznetzov) a l'Oural Arctique en 1909, sous la direction de H. Baklund. Livr. 7. Diptera. Memoires de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences, Classe Physico-Mathematique, Serie 8, 28 (7), pp. 63 - 67.
  • Sorokina, V. S. & Pont, A. C. (2014) The localities of Arctic Diptera (Insecta) collected by the Russian Kara Expedition of 1909. Journal of Natural History, 49 (25 - 26), pp. 1585 - 1598.
  • Engelmark, R. (1999) Dungflies (Diptera: Scathophagidae) collected by the Swedish-Russian tundra ecology expedition ' 94, with the description of two new species; Nanna indotatum and Cochliarium sibiricum. Entomologisk Tidskrift, 120 (4), 157 - 167.