Empis (Coptophlebia),

Daugeron, Christophe & Grootaert, Patrick, 2005, Phylogenetic systematics of the Empis (Coptophlebia) hyalea-group (Insecta: Diptera: Empididae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 145 (3), pp. 339-391 : 366-367

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EMPIS (COPTOPHLEBIA) View in CoL THIASOTES MELANDER, 1946

( FIG. 21 View Figure 21 )

References: Melander (1946): 116.

Type material studied: Holotype: male, Indonesia, Java, Tjibodas, Mt. Gede, 9000 ft (c. 2800 m) a.s.l., Bryant & Palmer, A.L.Melander 1961 (USNM). The red label ‘ Holotype, Coptophlebia (= Empis ) thiasotes Melander , male, teste W.J. Turner, 1981’ was added to the holotype.

Other material: 1 male, Indonesia, Java, Tjibodas, Mt. Gede , 4600 ft (c. 1400 m) a.s.l., Bryant and Palmer, A.L.Melander coll. 1961 ( USNM) .

Redescription: MALE: HEAD. Occiput black with row of distinct postocular bristles. Scape, pedicel, face black, flagellum missing. Palpus brown. Proboscis dark brown-black. Labrum slightly more than twice head height. Labium with short bristly hairs, labella as long as prementum. THORAX with the only visible strong, long bristles as follows: 1 postpronotal, 3 notopleurals, 1 postalar. LEGS dark brown. Fore tibia somewhat deformed, S-shaped in frontal view, with distinct posterolateral bristles; first fore tarsomere somewhat swollen, elongated (five sixths fore tibia length), posterolaterally and dorsally covered with numerous strong, long bristles, several strong ventrals on apical half; second fore tarsomere swollen with numerous strong, long dorsals, other tarsomeres with several long dorsals, pair of which stronger. Mid tibia with 2 strong dorsal bristles (at basal quarter, at apical third), 1 strong, long ventral at basal third; first mid tarsomere with apical circlet of strong bristles. Hind femur with rather strong ventral bristles on apical half; hind tibia with ventral row of strong, very long bristles, 1 antero- and posterodorsal rows of strong, long bristles; hind tarsus swollen, all tarsomeres with pair of strong, long dorsals apically, first hind tarsomere with ventral spine-like bristles. WING (length = 3) tinged with brown. A1 abbreviated. Halter brownish. ABDOMEN blackish, with distinct bristles at base. HYPOPYGIUM ( Fig. 21 View Figure 21 ) with cercus bearing minute spines at tip, brush of ventral bristles. Epandrium somewhat indented ventroapically with long, narrow apical projection bearing several strong, long bristles; c. 12 strong, long ventral bristles. Hypandrium sickle-shaped in lateral view. Phallus slender, long, not pointed at tip, feebly recurved apically.

FEMALE: unknown.