Rhamphomyia (Pararhamphomyia) ursinella Melander

• Main Authors: Shamshev, Igor V., Sinclair, Bradley J., Khruleva, Olga A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Chironomidae; Rhamphomyia; Rhamphomyia ursinella; Arctic; Svalbard; Nunavut; Hudson Bay; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Svalbard Archipelago; Canada; Greenland; Hudson; Sinclair; New Siberian Islands; Alar; Bernard Harbour; Arctic Archipelago; Iceland; Kotelny Island; Russian Arctic islands; Yakutia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4477234; https://zenodo.org/record/4477234

Rhamphomyia ( Pararhamphomyia ) ursinella Melander (Fig. 48) Rhamphomyia ursina Malloch, 1919: 46. Type-locality: Bernard Harbour, Nunavut, Canada. Rhamphomyia ursinella Melander, 1928: 209 (replacement name for ursina Malloch, preoccupied by Oldenberg, 1915: 91). Other references: Sinclair et al ., 2019: 71 (type material, redescription, full list of references). Material examined. RUSSIA. Yakutia (New Siberian Islands): centre of Kotelny Island, upper flow of river Balykhtakh near mouth of river Tuguttakh, arctic desert on flowers, 15.vii.1973, KBG (20 ♂, 20 ♀, ZIN). Recognition. Mid-sized (wing length 3.6–4.5 mm) blackish flies. Male (Fig. 48) holoptic; anepisternum with shiny spot; scutum with 2 narrow shiny median vittae (sometimes with less distinct subshiny vitta on supra-alar space); thorax black setose, presutural dc long, fine, 2–3-serial, acr similar to dc, biserial, 10–12 sctl; legs dark brown, hind basitarsus thickened apically, all tibiae and basitarsi clothed in dense long fine setae, hind tibia covered with these setae over entire dorsal face; wing infuscate, CuA+CuP incomplete, halter brown; abdomen very faintly pruinescent, almost shiny, with black setae; epandrium elongate, slightly constricted at middle; cercus elongate, about 2/3 length of epandrium, slightly constricted medially; phallus well exposed, filamentous, long, gently curved slightly beyond epandrium. Female with darker wing, short setose slender legs without pennate setae. Distribution. Holarctic; R . ursinella is widespread across the low to high arctic region of North America, east of Hudson Bay (Sinclair et al . 2019). In Eurasia, this species was found only from New Siberian Islands of Arctic Russia. : Published as part of Shamshev, Igor V., Sinclair, Bradley J. & Khruleva, Olga A., 2020, The empidoid flies (Diptera: Empidoidea, exclusive of Dolichopodidae) of the Russian Arctic islands and Svalbard Archipelago, pp. 1-75 in Zootaxa 4848 (1) on pages 45-46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4848.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4406987 : {"references": ["Malloch, J. R. (1919) The Diptera collected by the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913 - 1918. (excluding the Tipulidae and Culicidae). In: Anderson, R. M. (Ed.), Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913 - 18. Vol. 3. Insects. Part C. Diptera. Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty Ottawa, Thomas Mulvey, Ontario, pp. 34 - 90.", "Melander, A. L. (1928) Diptera, Fam. Empididae. In: Wytsman, P. (Ed.), Genera Insectorum, Fasc. 185, \" 1927 \". Louis Desmet- Verteneuil, Bruxelles, pp. 1 - 434.", "Oldenberg, L. (1915) Uber einige Rhamphomyia - Arten. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 80 A (9), 69 - 91. [1914]", "Sinclair, J. B., Vajda, E. A., Saigusa, T., Shamshev, I. V. & Wheeler, T. A. (2019) Rhamphomyia Meigen of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Greenland and Iceland (Diptera: Empididae). Zootaxa, 4670 (1), 1 - 94. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4670.1.1"]}