Marmasoma White, 1916

Li, Xuankun & Yeates, David K., 2018, One hundred years of solitude ended: A second species of Marmasoma White, 1916 (Diptera, Bombyliidae, Bombyliinae, Eclimini) from Australia, Zootaxa 4420 (1), pp. 34-42 : 34-42

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4420.1.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:03CAFD21-185F-4C86-ACC3-8CEB61E7F7DD

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5997278

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/CB6DE077-9C14-FFFF-2CF1-F570FBBAFDC8

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scientific name

Marmasoma White, 1916
status

 

Marmasoma White, 1916

Marmasoma White, 1916: 184 , 188. Type species: Marmasoma sumptuosum White, 1916 View in CoL , by monotypy.

Diagnosis (modified from Rodrigues et al., 2017).

Scape with numerous very long hairs, longer on ventral surface and laterally; face flat, not projecting in lateral view; occiput tumid, with bristles. Thorax postpronotal lobe and antepronotum with long and strong bristles; anepisternum with short scales admixed with strong hairs on dorsal margin; laterotergite and mediotergite with long and strong hairs and bristles. Abdomen decumbent with apex raised in male; tergites covered in scales. Male epandrium anterior margin with a deep notch, anteroventral corner with long stem; hypandrium absent; gonocoxite slender and elongate; gonocoxal apex as wide as the base in dorsal view, ejaculatory apodeme small; gonocoxal apodeme strong and incurved; lateral ejaculatory process small; inner and outer apexes of gonocoxite rounded; dorsal bridge without lateral hollow; gonostylus bifid apically; phallus long and strongly curved. Female sand chamber present; tergites 9 and 10 fused; acanthophorite spines not in a row; furca broad; sperm pump strong; sperm pump apical and basal collars absent; spermatheca elongate, cylindrical with apex slightly swollen.

Distribution. ACT, NSW, SA, VIC, TAS, WA.

Species included. Marmasoma sumptuosum and Marmasoma hortorum sp. nov.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Bombyliidae

Loc

Marmasoma White, 1916

Li, Xuankun & Yeates, David K. 2018
2018
Loc

Marmasoma

White, A. 1916: 184
1916
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