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Crocidium chrysonotum Hesse 1938
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Crocidium chrysonotum Hesse, 1938 (Fig. 3)
Crocidium chrysonotum Hesse 1938: 789, 793795; Hesse, 1963: 277, 285, 286; Hull, 1973: 185; Bowden, 1980: 399; Evenhuis & Greathead, 1999: 215.
Spermathecae: spermathecae globose with longitudinal axis equivalent to ½ of sperm pump length; spermathecal ducts 9 times longer than sperm pump, uniting to form a short common spermathecal duct; sperm pump placed at nearly basal 1/4 of the spermathecal duct; sclerotized collars of sperm pumps smaller on basal ends than on apical ones (Fig. 3).
Material examined: Paratype. South Africa. Northern Cape: Kamieskroon (Namaqualand), 1 female (dissected), (collector unknown). Deposited in the South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa.
Notes
Published as part of Lamas, Carlos José Einicker, Evenhuis, Neal L. & Couri, Márcia Souto, 2002, Descriptions of the spermathecae and male genitalia of the species of Crocidium Loew described by Hesse (Diptera, Bombyliidae, Crocidiinae), pp. 1-12 in Zootaxa 45 on page 4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.155823
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Hesse
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Bombyliidae
- Genus
- Crocidium
- Species
- chrysonotum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Crocidium chrysonotum Hesse, 1938 sec. Lamas, Evenhuis & Couri, 2002
References
- Hesse, A. J. (1938) A revision of the Bombyliidae (Diptera) of Southern Africa. [I.] Annals of the South African Museum, 34, 1 - 1053.
- Hesse, A. J. (1963) New species of Crocidium and Toxophora (Bombyliidae). Annals of the Natal Museum, 15, 273 - 95.
- Hull, F. M. (1973) The beeflies of the world. The genera of the family Bombyliidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 286, 3 - 687.
- Bowden, J. (1980) Family Bombyliidae. In R. W. Crosskey (ed.), Catalogue of the Diptera of the Afrotropical Region, London: British Museum (Natural History), pp. 381 - 430.
- Evenhuis, N. L. & Greathead, D. J. (1999) World Catalog of Bee Flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, Netherlands, 756 pp.