Fannia carbonaria ( Meigen, 1826 )

Zhang, Dong, Li, Wei, Zhang, Ming, Wang, Ming-Fu & Wang, Rong-Rong, 2016, Fanniidae (Insecta, Diptera) from Beijing, China, with key and description of one new species, Zootaxa 4079 (4), pp. 401-414 : 403-405

Fannia carbonaria ( Meigen, 1826)

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Anthomyia carbonaria Meigen, 1826: 154 . Type locality: Germany, Stolberg.

Fannia carbonaria: Stein 1915: 28 ; Hennig 1955: 23; Chillcott 1961: 124; Pont 1977: 448; Pont 1986: 46; Rozkošný et al. 1997: 27; Xue & Wang 1998: 818; Lin & Chen 1999: 108; Wang & Xue 2002: 55; Su & Wang 2004: 110; Wang et al. 2004b: 136; Domínguez & Roig-Juñent 2008: 577; Wang et al. 2009: 38 .

Redescription based on the specimens collected in Beijing, China. MALE. Body length about 4.60 mm. Eye bare; facets slightly enlarged on anterior margin in upper part; upper part of fronto-orbital plate with grayish-drown pollinosity, lower part of fronto-orbital plate and parafacial with grayish-silvery pollinosity; frons slightly narrower than the distance between two posterior ocelli at narrowest point; frontal vitta black, the narrowest point narrower than the width of anterior ocellus; frontal setae eight or nine, stout, reaching ocellar triangle, situated on the lower 5/6 of fronto-orbital plate; postocular setae in one row, without occipital seta behind the postocular setae on vertex; parafacial bare, at middle about 3/4 as wide as the width of postpedicel; antenna brown, postpedicel 2.00x longer than wide, arista black and short plumose, slightly swollen in basal part, the longest individual hair slightly shorter than aristal base; epistoma not projecting beyond vibrissal angle, vibrissal angle behind frontal angle in profile; subvibrissal setae in one row, lateral with one short row of setae; gena and genal dilation with fine black setae, upper margin of gena without upcurved seta; proboscis stout, prementum with thin grayish-yellow pollinosity; palpus black, claviform, longer than the length of prementum. Thorax ground-color black, notum slightly shining, with thinly brownish pollinosity, without distinct vitta; presutural acr triserial, prescutellar pairs slightly stronger, the distance between two outer acr rows narrower than the distance between acr and dc rows, dc 2+3, ia 0+2, pra 1, stout, about 3/4 as long as posterior notopleural seta; notopleuron without seta; basisternum, proepisternum, anepimeron, meron and katepimeron bare; katepisternal setae 1+1, katepisternum with some setae and without ventral spine; anterior spiracle small and brown, posterior one dark brown; calypters yellowish, the lower one slightly projecting beyond the upper one. Wing brownish; veins dark brown; tegula black; basicosta brownishyellow; costal spine inconspicuous; node of Rs bare on ventral and dorsal surfaces; vein M straight, slightly parallel to vein R4+5 distally; crossveins without obvious cloud; haltere orange. Legs entirely black; fore coxa without anterior spine on ventral surface, fore femur with complete pv row, short and weak in basal 1/3, fore tibia without ad and median p; mid coxa without any hook-like spine or spine-like seta, mid femur with complete av row, becoming gradually shorter and denser towards apex, pv row complete, in one row, p row slender, four or five setae strong in distal part, mid tibia slightly swollen in distal part, with two ad, one or two pd, and with numerous slender setae on ventral surface, the longest one about half as long as mid tibial width in distal part, mid first tarsomere without basal tooth-like spine on ventral surface; hind coxa bare on posterior surface, hind femur only with three or four long av in distal 2/5, without distinct pv row, hind tibia slightly curved, with two av, two ad, with one long median p. Abdomen oval and flattened, ground-color black, with thin dark brown pollinosity; syntergite 1+2 to tergite 4 each with one inconspicuous median inverted triangular vitta, tergite 5 without distinct stripe; sternite 1 with three slender setae in lateral part; terminalia see Chillcott (1961: 70).

FEMALE. Unknown from China, description see Hennig (1955: 36).

Type material examined. Lectotype ♀, Germany [probably Stolberg ], designated by A.C. Pont ( MNHN).

Material examined. CHINA: Beijing: 1♂, Yanqing, Mt. Songshan , 31.V.2009, Coll. D. Zhang ( MBFU).

Distribution. Palearctic: China (Beijing, new record from mainland China), Austria, Belgium, Britain, Czech, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Norway, Poland, Rumania, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland; Nearctic: Canada (British Columbia), USA (Washington); Oriental: China ( Taiwan).

Figures

FIGURE 2. Fannia carbonaria (Meigen, 1826) from Beijing, China, male: A. Habitus, lateral view. B. Abdomen, dorsal view. C. Head, anterolateral view. D. Head, anterior view. E. Hind leg, anterior view, arrow pointing to the stout hind tarsomeres. (Scale bars: A = 1.00 mm, B − E = 0.50 mm).

FIGURE 3. Fannia carbonaria (Meigen, 1826) from Germany, female, lectotype: A. Habitus, lateral view. B. Abdomen, dorsal view. C. Head, anterolateral view. D. Labels. (Scale bars: A = 1.00 mm, B and C = 0.50 mm).