Crocidium microstictum Hesse, 1963

Lamas, Carlos José Einicker, Evenhuis, Neal L. & Couri, Márcia Souto, 2002, Descriptions of the spermathecae and male genitalia of the species of Crocidium Loew described by Hesse (Diptera, Bombyliidae, Crocidiinae), Zootaxa 45, pp. 1-12 : 7-8

Crocidium microstictum Hesse, 1963 ( Figs 10­11 )

Crocidium microstictum Hesse 1963: 273 ­275, 284; Hull, 1973: 185; Bowden, 1980: 399; Evenhuis & Greathead, 1999: 216.

Male genitalia: gonocoxa elongated; distiphallus short, not surpassing apex of posterior process of gonocoxa; lateral aedeagal apodeme surpassing gonocoxal margins; gonostylus flattened, hook shaped, very narrow apically ( Fig. 10 ).

Spermathecae: spermathecae globose with longitudinal axis equivalent to ½ of sperm pump length; spermathecal ducts 8 times longer than sperm pump, uniting to form a short common spermathecal duct; sperm pump placed at nearly basal 1/3 of the spermathecal duct; sclerotized collars of sperm pumps smaller on basal ends than on apical ones. ( Fig. 11 ).

Material examined: Paratypes. South Africa. Western Cape: Citrusdal, 2 males (one dissected) and 2 females (one dissected), Nov. 1948, (collector unknown). Deposited in the South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa.

Figures

FIGURES 7 ­ 11. – Fig 7: Spermathecae of Crocidium karooanum Hesse, 1938; figs 8 ­ 9 – Crocidium lactipenne Hesse, 1963: 7. Male genitalia; 8. Spermathecae; figs 10 ­ 11 – Crocidium microstictum Hesse, 1963: 9. Male genitalia; 10. Spermathecae.