Egle rhinotmeta (Pandelle, 1900)

Michelsen, Verner, 2009, Revision of the willow catkin flies, genus Egle Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Anthomyiidae), in Europe and neighbouring areas, Zootaxa 2043 (1), pp. 1-76 : 50-51

The Egle rhinotmeta species group

This species group equals the ‘ Egle rhinotmeta superspecies’ of Griffiths (2003) and includes two very similar species with vicariant distributions, viz. the western Palaearctic E. rhinotmeta ( Pandellé, 1900) and the eastern Palaearctic and Nearctic E. longipalpis (Malloch, 1920) . The latter species may only differ from E. rhinotmeta in respect to the decidedly narrower apical extension of the male cerci, e.g. Suwa (1974, fig. 230) and Griffiths (2003, fig. 2621), and some minor differences in the shape of the surstyli.

Diagnostic and probably apomorphic for the species group are the strikingly long av- and pv-setae on middle third of the male hind femur.