Hemipenthes maura Linnaeus

Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2008, Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae), Zootaxa 1870, pp. 1-23 : 13-15

Hemipenthes maura Linnaeus

( Figs. 6 , 41–46 )

Musca maura Linnaeus, 1758: 590 . Type locality: “Europa”.

Musca denigrata Linnaeus, 1767: 981 . Type locality: “Europa”.

Nemotelvs nonvs Schaeffer, 1768: 76 . [Unavailable; name proposed in a non-binominal work.]. Musca hirsuta Villers, 1789: 427 . Type locality: “ Gallia ” [= France].

Anthrax daemon Panzer, 1797: 17 . Type locality: Germany.

Anthrax bifasciata Meigen, 1804: 209 . Type locality: “Südrussland?”.

Anthrax relata Walker, 1852: 191 . Type locality: Not given [= Palaearctic].

Anthrax uncinus Loew, 1869b: 171 . Type locality: “nordöstliche Russland bis nach Sibirien” [= Russia (ES)]. Hemipenthes maurus var. flavotomentosa Paramonov, 1927: 160 , 168. Type locality: Ukraine.

Diagnosis. Cell r4 entirely hyaline, hyaline part of cell r1 nearly semicircular; hyaline apical part of cell a very small, subtriangular. Postalar callus with three black bristles. Epiphallus slightly constricted at middle; distiphallus narrow and long, subtriangular in dorsal view.

Description. Male. Body length 9 mm, wing length 9 mm.

Head black with grey pollen; ocellar tubercle reddish. Hairs on head mostly black; frons with long erect black hairs; face with dense long black hairs; occiput with sparse black hairs, and a row of erect brown hairs on the edge; ocellar tubercle with two black hairs. Antenna black; scape long cylindrical, two times longer than wide, with rows of long, black hairs on both sides; pedicel nearly as long as wide, with sparse black hairs; first flagellomere onion-shaped, bare. Antennal ratio: 2:1:3. Proboscis brown with yellow hairs; palpus yellowish brown with long black hairs.

Thorax black with brown pollen. Hairs on thorax mostly yellow, bristles on thorax black; hairs on postpronotal lobe yellow or black, mesonotum with row of long, yellow and black hairs along anterior margin and three long black lateral bristles near base of wing; laterotergite with a pile of yellowish hairs; postalar callus with three black bristles. Scutellum with sparse long black hairs. Legs brown except tarsi black. Hairs on legs mostly black, bristles black. Femora with long black hairs; tibiae with short black hairs; tarsi with some short black hairs. Mid femur with two av apically; hind femur with three av apically. Mid tibia with six ad, eight pd, six av and eight pv; hind tibia with nine ad, eight pd, eight av and 12 pv. Wing ( Fig. 6 ) half infuscate; hyaline part including entire cell r4, most part of cells r2+3, r5, m1, m2, dm, and cu-a1, and little part of cells r1, cup and a; hyaline part of cell r1 nearly semicircular; hyaline apical part of cell a very small, subtriangular. Halteres brown; knob pale.

Abdomen black with brown pollen. Hairs on abdomen yellowish and black; dorsum with long dense black hairs laterally except tergites 1 and 4; dorsum with short black recumbent hairs, tergite 5 with a small midposterior area bare; tergite 8 with yellowish hairs, tergites 9–10 with black hairs. Sternites with recumbent yellow hairs and erect black hairs.

Male genitalia ( Figs. 41–46 ). Epandrium subquadrate, nearly twice longer than high, and with distinct lateral extension at base in lateral view, epandrium nearly as wide as high in posterior view; gonocoxite narrowing posteriorly, with a rather narrow middle incision apically and apicolateral lobes somewhat acute apically in ventral view; gonostylus with a basal process, its acute tip curved in lateral view; epiphallus slightly constricted at middle, distiphallus narrow and long, subtriangular in dorsal view, slightly narrowing apically.

Female. Unknown.

Specimens examined. 1 male, CHINA: Beijing, Wulingshan, 4. X. 2006, Gang Yao; 1 male, CHINA: Beijing, Wulingshan, 24. VII. 2007, Kuiyan Zhang.

Distribution. China (Beijing, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 10. Hemipenthes wings. 1. Hemipenthes apiculata sp. nov.; 2. Hemipenthes beijingensis sp. nov.; 3. Hemipenthes cheni sp. nov.; 4. Hemipenthes hamifera Loew; 5. Hemipenthes hebeiensis sp. nov.; 6. Hemipenthes maura Linnaeus; 7. Hemipenthes neimengguensis sp. nov.; 8. Hemipenthes ningxiaensis sp. nov.; 9. Hemipenthes nitidofasciata Portschinsky; 10. Hemipenthes velutina Wiedemann.

FIGURES 41 – 46. Hemipenthes maura Linnaeus male genitalia. 41. phallus, lateral view; 42. phallus, dorsal view; 43. epandrium and cercus, posterior view; 44. gonocoxa and gonostylus, lateral view; 45. gonocoxa and gonostylus, ventral view; 46. epandrium and cercus, lateral view.