Pygommatius epicalus (Oldroyd) Oldroyd, 2005

Scarbrough, A. G. & Hill, H., 2005, Pygommatius Scarbrough & Marascia, a valid ommatiine genus (Diptera: Asilidae) with new combinations and new species from the Philippines, Zootaxa 1055, pp. 1-22 : 9

Pygommatius epicalus (Oldroyd) , comb. nov.

Ommatius epicalus Oldroyd 1972: 326 ; 1975:132. Catalog.

Specimens examined. PHILIPPINES: Holotype ɗ, Philippines, Culion, 1.6 km W of Culion (BPBM); 2 ɗ, 1 Ψ, Negros OR, Camp Lookout, Valencia, 15.i. ’61 ~ H.M. Torrevillas (BPBM); 1 Ψ, Busuanga Is., 4 km N. San Nicolas, Malaise trap, 21.v.1962, H. Holtmann (BPBM); 1 Ψ, Palawan, Tarumpitao Pt., 16.v.1958, H. E. Milliron (BPBM); 1 Ψ, Culion, 6 km W of Culion, 10.vi.1962, Malaise trap, H. Holtmann (BPBM); 1 Ψ, Philippines, Camarines Sur: Mt Isarog 750–900 m, 4–7.v.1963 ~ H.M. Torrevillas (BPBM); 1 Ψ, Philippines, Luzon, Camarines Sur, Mt. Isarog, Pili, 800 m 27.v.1965 ~ H.M. Torrevillas (BPBM); 1 ɗ, Philippines Palawan, Santa Monica, Puerto, Princesa, 23.ii.1987, C.K. Starr (USNM); 1 ɗ, San Jose, Mindanao P. I., 13.iii.45 ~ Ross & Skinner (CAS); 1 ɗ, same data except 17.iii.45 (CAS); 1 Ψ, Luzon, P. I., vi.09 ~ J.C. Thompson (CAS).

Remarks. Pygommatius epicalus is distinguished by the wide face (FHWR 1.0:7.6–8.0), body, coxae and trochanters black, abdomen shiny black, scutellar bristles usually yellow, sometimes dorsocentral and one or two lateral bristles; femora yellow except black on apical 1/3 to 1/2. The male is further recognized by the abundant, thin, white bristles on the lower 1/3 of the face; prominent, stout bristles present only in female; a stout, curved bristle on the hind trochanter; and the combined characters of the terminalia, especially the middle branch of the epandrium has a deep apical lobe separating four claw­like dorsal digits and the ventral branch is apically truncate; the apical bristles of hypandrium are mostly fused, forming a prominent elongated process (see Oldroyd 1972, Figures 106, 107).