Anthepiscopus ribesii Becker 1891

• Main Author: Wahlberg, Emma
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Anthepiscopus; Anthepiscopus ribesii; Lappland; Lapponia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3489125; https://zenodo.org/record/3489125

Material examined of Anthepiscopus ribesii AUSTRIA • 2 ♂♂; Admont, Styria; 1896; Strobl leg.; NHMW. Material examined of Anthepiscopus oedalinus (Zetterstedt, 1838) SWEDEN • 1 ♀; [Lapponia inferior, Lappland]; [D. Boheman leg.]; NHRS-GULI000058763 • 1 ♂; same data as for preceding; NHRS-GULI000058764. Description Eyes bare; males holoptic. Scape with setae; postpedicel tapering, at least three times as long as wide; stylus cylindrical. Labrum straight in both sexes; epipharyngal blades and ventroapical comb absent. Postgena bare or with setae, not spine like. Prosternum separated from proepisternum forming an isolated sclerite; laterotergite bare. Stout spine like setae on anterior face of fore coxa and on inner ventral margin of fore trochanter absent; tubercle on fore coxa absent; male fore tarsal claws present. In wings, costal bristle absent; subcosta reaching costa; R 4+5 unbranched; CuA recurved (Fig. 9F). Female: tergite 10 fused to cercus. Male: postgonites as fused processes from hypandrium; apex of phallus simple. Distribution This genus is represented in the Nearctic and west Palearctic. In addition, one species is recorded from Australia. : Published as part of Wahlberg, Emma, 2019, Revision and morphological analysis of the Ragadidae (Insecta, Diptera), pp. 1-19 in European Journal of Taxonomy 521 on page 16, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.521, http://zenodo.org/record/2656607