Crocidium phaenochilum Hesse, 1938

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), Zootaxa 45, pp. 1-12 : 9-10

Crocidium phaenochilum Hesse, 1938 ( Fig. 15 )

Crocidium phaenochilum Hesse 1938: 791 , 803­805; Hesse, 1963: 288; Hull, 1973: 185; Bowden, 1980: 399; Evenhuis & Greathead, 1999: 217.

Spermathecae: spermathecae without a conspicuous reservoir, distinguished only by a darker area on the extremities of the spermathecal ducts. This area with longitudinal axis equivalent to 3 times of sperm pump length; spermathecal ducts 10 times longer than sperm pump, uniting to form a short common spermathecal duct; sperm pump placed at nearly ½ of the spermathecal duct; sclerotized collars developed on both ends of sperm pumps. ( Fig. 15 ).

Material examined: Paratype. South Africa. Northern Cape: Kamieskroon (Namaqualand), 2 females (one dissected), Nov. 1936, (collector unknown). Deposited in the South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa.

Figures

FIGURES 12 ­ 16. – Fig. 12 ­ 13: Crocidium namaquense Hesse, 1963: 12. Male genitalia; 13. Spermathecae; fig. 14 – Spermathecae of Crocidium nitidilabre Hesse, 1938; fig. 15 – Spermathecae of Crocidium phaenochilum Hesse; fig. 16 – Spermathecae of Crocidium phaeopterale Hesse, 1938