Aphaniosoma brunnipes Ebejer, 1996

Ebejer, Martin J., 2023, The genus Aphaniosoma Becker, 1903 (Diptera: Chyromyidae) in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, with descriptions of new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 872, pp. 1-161 : 31

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2023.872.2131

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:05098E38-AB11-486E-8F28-8567DE6BC19C

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8018341

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/505487F2-B05A-FFC8-FDF2-FA890A873DB5

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scientific name

Aphaniosoma brunnipes Ebejer, 1996
status

 

Aphaniosoma brunnipes Ebejer, 1996 View in CoL

Fig. 11 View Fig

Material examined

Paratype

OMAN • 1 ♂; Muscat, Azaiba ; 9 Feb. 1989; M.J. Ebejer leg.; NMWC.

Remarks

This is one of a very few species with extensively darkened legs ( Fig. 11A View Fig ). It is known only from the type series. Both sexes have a dark band across the frons, dark brown basal flagellomere and brown palpus. The similar species A. nigripes Ebejer, 2016 from Morocco has a yellow palpus, yellow basal flagellomere in the male, a slender postgonite and a differently shaped sternite 6 ( Ebejer 2016: 226, figs 4–6). Aphaniosoma captiosum sp. nov. has the ventro-lateral margin of tergite 6 similar to that in A. nigripes ; it differs from both species in the postgonite, which is thicker and ends in a white seta-like tip ( Fig. 13A View Fig ), and in the shape of sternites 5 and 6 ( Fig. 14C View Fig ).

Distribution

Oman ( Ebejer 1996).

NMWC

United Kingdom, Cardiff, National Museum of Wales

NMWC

National Museum of Wales

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

SubOrder

Brachycera

Family

Chyromyidae

Genus

Aphaniosoma

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