Pygommatius hypnus (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 : 10-11

Pygommatius hypnus (Oldroyd) , comb. nov.

Ommatius hypnus Oldroyd 1972: 332 ; 1975: 133. Catalog.

Specimens examined. PHILIPPINES: Holotype ɗ, Philippines, Mindanao,

Misamis Or. [ Misamis Oriental] Minabanan, 1050–1200 m, 5–9.iv.1961, H.M. Torrevillas (BPBM); 1 ɗ, Mindanao, Mt. Katanglad, Bukidnon, 1480 m, 27–31.xi.1959, C. M. Yoshimoto (BPBM); 1 ɗ, 2 Ψ, [Mindanao] Misamis OR. [ Misamis Oriental], Mt. Empagatao, 1050–1200 m, 19–30.iv.61, H. Torrevillas (BPBM); 1 Ψ, P.I., [MINDANAO] MISAMIS OR. [ Misamis Oriental], Mt. Empagatao, 25.iv.1961 ~ Mid­mountain to, moss type of, rain forest ~ H. Torrevillas (BPBM); 1 Ψ, Mindanao, Mt. Apo, 6000 ft., Mainit Riv., 14.ix, C. S. Clagg (MCZ); 1 Ψ, Mindanao, Batraeyon, 8000 ft., 14.ix, C. S. Clagg (MCZ).

Remarks. The brown vestiture of the body, brown patterns of the legs, wing venation, and the three white tomentose stripes on the pleuron of P. hypnus are similar to P. apoticius and P. misamis but differs in the brown fore coxa and trochanters, and in the characters of the male terminalia (see Oldroyd 1972, Figure 125), especially the wide, emarginated, yellow apex of the median branch of the epandrium.