Crocidium phaeopterale Hesse, 1938

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 : 10

Crocidium phaeopterale Hesse, 1938 ( Fig. 16 )

Crocidium phaeopteralis Hesse 1938: 789 , 797­800; Hesse, 1963: 285; Hull, 1973: 185; Bowden, 1980: 399; Evenhuis & Greathead, 1999: 217.

Crocidium phaeopterale Evenhuis & Greathead, 1999: 217 .

Spermathecae: spermathecae globose with longitudinal axis equivalent to 4/5 of sperm pump length; spermathecal ducts 9 times longer than sperm pump, uniting to form a short common spermathecal duct; sperm pump placed at nearly basal 1/4 of the spermathecal duct; sclerotized collars of sperm pumps smaller on basal ends than on apical ones. ( Fig. 16 ).

Material examined: Paratypes. South Africa: Northern Cape: Victoria West (Meltonwold), 1 female, Oct. 1935, (collector unknown). Deposited in the Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Same data label, 1 female (dissected), Oct. 1935, (collector unknown). Deposited in South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa. Non Type: South Africa: Eastern Cape: Graff­Reinet (22 km SE, on Pearston rd) 750 m; 32o 27’S: 24o 38’E) (open Karoo scrub flowers), 1 female, 7 Dec. 1989, J. & H. Londt. Deposited in the Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

Figures

FIGURES 12 ­ 16. – Fig. 12 ­ 13: Crocidium namaquense Hesse, 1963: 12. Male genitalia; 13. Spermathecae; fig. 14 – Spermathecae of Crocidium nitidilabre Hesse, 1938; fig. 15 – Spermathecae of Crocidium phaenochilum Hesse; fig. 16 – Spermathecae of Crocidium phaeopterale Hesse, 1938