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Fannia corvina Verrall 1892

Description

Fannia corvina (Verrall, 1892)

Description: Male: Body length 5.0– 5.5 mm. Eye with sparse and short hairs, facets slightly enlarged on anterior margin in upper part; postocular setae irregularly placed; occipital setae in one row; fronto-orbital plate and parafacial with greyish-white pruinosity; the median part of frons about as wide as 2/3 of antennal first flagellomere, frontal vitta black, linear in median part, frontal setae 8 or 9, the gaps filled with numerous fine setae, upper orbital setae absent; parafacial bare, about as wide as 3/4 of first flagellomere width in median part; antenna black, first flagellomere 2.0X longer than wide, arista ciliated, the longest hair slightly shorter than width of arista at base; epistoma not projecting beyond vibrissal angle, vibrissal angle behind frontal angle in profile; gena and genal dilation with black hairs, upper margin of gena without upcurved setae; proboscis stout, labella large, prementum with grayish-brown pruinosity, its length 2.0X longer than its width, palpus black, claviform, slightly longer than prementum. Thorax black in ground colour, notum with light brownish gray pruinosity, without distinct vitta; presutural acr triserial, hair-like, only prescutellar pairs slightly stout, the distance between two acr rows slightly narrower than the distance between acr row and dc row, dc 2+3, ia 0+2, pra 1, about 4/5 of the length of posterior notopleural seta, notopleuron without seta; basisternum, proepisternum, anepimeron, meron and katepimeron bare; katepisternal setae 1:1, katepisternum without ventral spines; spiracles brown; calypters yellow, the lower one slightly projecting beyond the upper one. Wing brownish; veins brown, tegula dark brown, basicosta yellow, costal spine inconspicuous; vein Sc not curved bow-like; node of Rs bare on ventral and dorsal surfaces; veins R4+5 and M conspicuously close to each other distally; vein R4+5 straight; crossveins without obvious cloud; haltere brownish yellow. Legs entirely black, fore tibia without ad and median p, fore first tarsomere with numerous longish setae on ventral surface; mid coxa without any hooked spines or spine-like setae on lower and outer margins, mid femur with long and sparse av and pv rows in basal half, becoming gradually denser and shorter towards apex, av row comb-like in distal part, pv row becoming biserial in median part, mid tibia slightly swollen in distal half, with 2 ad, 2 pd and numerous slender hairs on ventral surface, the longest one about equal to mid tibia width, mid first tarsomere without basal tooth-like spines on ventral surface; hind coxa bare on posterior surface, hind femur with 4 long av in distal half, hind tibia with 1 or 2 av, 2 ad and 1 median d. Abdomen oval, depressed and flattened, black in ground colour, with light grayish brown pruinosity; syntergite 1+2 to tergite 5 each with 1 broad median vitta; sternite 1 with 4 or 5 hairs.

Female: Unknown.

Specimens examined: 1 male, China: Shanxi: Guangling: Haizi, 24.v.1983, Coll. M.F. Wang; 1 male, China: Liaoning: Xiuyan, Mt. Yaoshan, 400–800m, 19.v.2007, Coll. C.T. Zhang; 1 male, China: Xinjiang: Mt. Tianshan, 1600m, 11.vi.1960, Coll. F.C. Zhang.

Distribution: China (Shanxi, Liaoning, Xinjiang), Japan (Honshu), Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Great Britain, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Canada, United States.

Notes

Published as part of Wang, Ming-Fu, Zhang, Dong, Zheng, Shuang & Zhang, Chun-Tian, 2009, A review of the carbonaria - subgroup of Fannia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Fanniidae), with descriptions of two new species from China, pp. 37-47 in Zootaxa 2204 on pages 39-40, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189685

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Verrall
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Fanniidae
Genus
Fannia
Species
corvina
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Fannia corvina Verrall, 1892 sec. Wang, Zhang, Zheng & Zhang, 2009

References

  • Verrall, G. H. (1892) Two new English species of Homalomyia. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 28 [= (2) 3], 149.