Rhaphium eburnea ( Parent, 1926 )

Grootaert, Patrick, Taylor, Christopher & Guénard, Benoit, 2019, Three new species of Rhaphium Meigen, 1803 from mangroves in Hong Kong (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Rhaphiinae), European Journal of Taxonomy 540, pp. 1-21 : 17

Rhaphium eburnea ( Parent, 1926)

Fig. 8

Porphyrops eburnea Parent, 1926: 139 (type locality: Zi-Ka-Wei, Shanghai, China).

Diagnosis

Larger species (5 mm). Male: legs yellow except for all coxae black, fore femur dorsally black, tip of hind femur, base and tip of hind tibia and apical 2 tarsomeres of fore and mid leg and all hind tarsomeres black. Postpedicel elongate triangular, twice as long as wide, arista 3 × as long as postpedicel. Fore coxa with long bristles, near base with white bristles, on apical half white bristles mixed with black bristles. Tip of mid coxa with a number of adhering bristles forming a thorn.

Type material

Syntypes

CHINA – Shanghai • 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀; Zi-Ka-Wei; 17 May 2017; MNHN • 1 ♀; Kao Gkiao ; 23 Oct. 2017; MNHN [as communicated by Mr Emmanuel Delfosse, Paris] .

Figures

Fig. 8. Rhaphium eburnea (Parent, 1926), lectotype, ♂, habitus (MNHN). (Photo credit Mr Emmanuel Delfosse, MNHN)