Dipsomyia spinifera, Bezzi, 1909

Wahlberg, Emma, 2019, Revision and morphological analysis of the Ragadidae (Insecta, Diptera), European Journal of Taxonomy 521, pp. 1-19 : 12-13

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2019.521

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:40C3F1EE-5EE3-4DA8-ADE0-6D57BAC23C26

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3489104

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A6B675-FFF3-FFF9-00DB-D0C2FCD0B47E

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Plazi

scientific name

Dipsomyia spinifera
status

 

Material examined of Dipsomyia spinifera

Holotype

CHILE • ♀; [Quillota]; [1000 m a.s.l.]; 22 Sep. 1902; W. Schnuse leg.; MTD.

Description

Eyes bare ( Fig 7A View Fig ); males dichoptic ( Sinclair 1999). Scape with setae; postpedicel tapering; stylus tapering. Epipharyngal blades and ventroapical comb present. Postgena bare or with setae, not spine like ( Fig. 7A View Fig ). Prosternum separated from proepisternum forming an isolated sclerite ( Fig. 7D View Fig ); laterotergite with setae. Stout spine like setae on anterior face of fore coxa present; spine like setae on inner ventral margin of fore trochanter absent; tubercle on fore coxa absent ( Fig. 7D View Fig ); male fore tarsal claws present.

In wings, costal bristle present; subcosta reaching costa; R 4+5 branched; CuA straight ( Fig. 9B View Fig ). Females: tergite 10 divided medially. Males: postgonites as fused processes from hypandrium; ventral surstylus

position apical; apex of phallus membranous ( Sinclair 1999).

Distribution

The only known species in this genus is endemic to Chile.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Empididae

Genus

Dipsomyia

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