Revision of fossil Bibionidae (Insecta: Diptera) from the Miocene of Radoboj, Croatia
Author
Skartveit, John
Author
Krizmanić, Katarina
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-04-03
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10.11646/zootaxa.4759.3.3
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Penthetria murchisonii
(
Unger, 1842
)
(
Figs. 5
,
25
)
Bibio Murchisonii
Unger, 1842: 426
.
Bibiopsis Murchisonis
(
Unger, 1842
)
Heer, 1849: 230
.
Penthetria Murchisoei
(
Unger, 1842
)
Loew, 1868: 186
.
Penthetria Murchisoni
(
Unger, 1842
)
Handlirsch, 1907: 959
.
Bibio murchisonis
Unger, 1842
Evenhuis, 1994: 125
.
FIGURE 5.
Penthetria murchisonii
, female, holotype, SLJG 77466.
Type material:
Holotype
(female,
SLJG 77466
), probable
paratype
(female) GBA 2009/016/0214.
Additional material:
1 female
in
NHMW
(1852
XXIX
45), 1 unnumbered female (feeble impression).
Heer (1849)
mentioned
9 specimens
,
8 in
Vienna and one in Graz. Additionally, there is one female (1852.
I.1011
) in
NHMW
labeled as
Bibiopsis murchisoni
, this is
Bibio
sp.
Male
unknown.
Female
: Total length
9.9 mm
Head: Width
1.06 mm
. Dark brown, oval, a little wider than long. Complex eye not prominent.
Thorax: Length
2.5 mm
, width
1.9 mm
. Brownish-black, rather short and wide, sulci fine, sharp and distinctive. Pile not apparent. Halter brown.
Wing (
Fig. 25
): Length
9.8 mm
, width
3.2 mm
. Brown fumose, rather narrow and pointed. Veins dark brown, distinctive, pterostigma indistinctive. Subcosta distinctive, long and straight.
R
2+3
long, slightly oblique. Costa extends a little beyond apex of
R
4+5
. Vein measurements: Subcosta
5.8 mm
, basal
R
2.6 mm
, distal
R
1
3.6 mm
, basal
R
s
1.8
mm, distal
R
s
0.7
mm,
R
2+3
2.2 mm
,
R
4+5
4.4 mm
, R-M
0.4 mm
, basal M 3.0 mm, distal M
0.5 mm
, M
1
3.0 mm, M
2
2.2 mm
, M-Cu
0.25 mm
, CuA
2.1 mm
, CuA
1
3.9 mm
, CuA
2
3.0 mm.
Legs: Black.
Abdomen: Length
6.7 mm
, width
2.4 mm
. Brownish-black, slightly conical.