A new species of dance-flies of the genus Rhamphomyia Meigen, 1822 (Diptera: Empididae) from the Caucasus
A new species of the subgenus Megacyttarus Bigot, 1880 taken from the Caucasian region of Russia (Krasnodar Province) – Rhamphomyia pseudopoissoni sp. n. is described in the paper. Diagnosis. Male: body gold gray pollinose; legs black; hind femur narrowed in basal half, without tubercle on post...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Southern Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Science, Federal state budgetary institution
2012-12-01
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| Series: | Кавказский энтомологический бюллетень |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ssc-ras.ru/files/files/33_%20Kustov.pdf |
| Summary: | A new species of the subgenus Megacyttarus
Bigot, 1880 taken from the Caucasian region of Russia
(Krasnodar Province) – Rhamphomyia pseudopoissoni
sp. n. is described in the paper. Diagnosis. Male: body gold
gray pollinose; legs black; hind femur narrowed in basal half,
without tubercle on posterior face; hind tibia considerably
shorter than hind femur, curved (anterior view) and slightly
thickened on apical part; hind tarsus 1.6 times as long as
hind tibia; hind basitarsus slightly thickened and curved,
with fine anteroventral and posterodorsal setae which are
2 times as long as diameter of basitarsus; second segment
thickened, with tuft of long black bristles which are about
4 times as long as diameter of segment; third segment
thickened, with similar long bristles; epandrial lamella
subtriangular, with rounded apex; phallus arcuate, without
S-like basal bend, hooked on subapical part. |
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| ISSN: | 1814-3326 1814-3326 |