Rhamphomyia (Rhamphomyia) morio

• 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 morio; Arctic; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; Norway; Seta; Sinclair; Alteidet; Fennoscandia; Kildin; Lapponia; Murmanskaya; Russian Arctic islands
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4477239; https://zenodo.org/record/4477239

Rhamphomyia ( Rhamphomyia ) morio (Zetterstedt) (Fig. 55) Rhamphomyza morio Zetterstedt, 1838: 565. Type locality (by lectotype designation): Alteidet, Norway. Other references: Collin, 1961: 399 (type data); Barták, 1981: 395 (lectotype designation). Rhamphomyza villosa Zetterstedt, 1838: 563. Type locality: “Dowrefjell Norvegiae (Lappon. Norvegica)”, Norway. Other references: Collin, 1961: 399 (type data); Barták, 1981: 396 (holotype data). Rhamphomyza fumipennis Zetterstedt, 1859: 5019. Type locality: “Lapponia Umensi, ad Tarna”, Sweden. Other references: Collin, 1961: 399 (type data); Barták, 1981: 396 (holotype data). Rhamphomyia ( Alpinomyia ) morio (Zetterstedt): Frey, 1956: 573 (revision). Rhamphomyia ( Rhamphomyia ) morio (Zetterstedt): Frey, 1922: 77 (key); Collin, 1961: 397 (revision); Gorodkov & Kovalev, 1969: 635 (key); Barták, 1981: 395 (revision), 1982: 408 (revision); Chvála & Wagner, 1989: 287 (catalogue); Yang et al ., 2007: 185 (catalogue); Shamshev, 2016: 78 (checklist). Material examined. RUSSIA. Murmanskaya Prov. (Kildin Island): 13.vii.1908, L. Bianki (1 ♂, ZIN). Recognition. Large (wing length 6–7.5 mm) blackish grey, dark-legged, black setose flies. Male (Fig. 55): holoptic, eyes not quite touching; antenna black, scape nearly 3X longer than pedicel, both with long setae; labrum about 1.5X longer than head height; palpus black, long, with numerous long fine setae; thorax mostly densely greyish pruinescent, scutum greyish brown, somewhat lustrous; prosternum bare, upper proepisternum in front of spiracle with several long fine setae; mesonotal setae intermixed with additional long fine setae, often hardly differentiated, 6–8 sctl; acr long, fine, 2–3-serial, presutural dc slightly longer than acr, 3–4-serial, not separated by bare space from supra-alars anteriorly; legs black, long, slender, mostly shiny to subshiny (except coxae); fore femur covered with dense, very long, fine, irregularly spread setae posteroventrally; hind femur with several anterodorsal setae on about apical half, 4–8 strong short anteroventral setae over entire femur length and some similar setae posteriorly, only pale pilose ventrally; all tibiae with rows of numerous very long strong setae dorsally, hind tibia with 1 long seta in posteroapical comb. fore and hind basitarsi with some longer setae dorsally; wing faintly brownish infuscate, CuA+CuP (anal vein) complete, entirely sclerotized, 1 long basal costal seta present, axillary incision very acute, halter brown; abdomen uniformly light grey pruinescent, denser on sternites; tergites somewhat lustrous, with very long posteromarginal setae; terminalia (Barták 1981: 396, fig. 17a) very similar to R . albosegmentata . Distribution. Palaearctic; Fennoscandia, Great Britain, mountains of Central Europe, northern European Russia. Species unplaced to subgenus : 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 50-51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4848.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4406987 : {"references": ["Zetterstedt, J. W. (1838) Sectio tertia. Diptera. Dipterologia Scandinaviae amicis et popularibus carissimus. In: Insecta Lapponica. L. Voss, Lipsiae (Leipzig), pp. 477 - 868.", "Collin, J. E. (1961) Empididae. In: British flies. Vol. 6. University Press, Cambridge, 782 pp.", "Bartak, M. (1981) A revision of the Rhamphomyia albosegmentata - group (Diptera, Empididae), with descriptions of new species. Acta Universitatis Carolinae Biologica, 11, 361 - 407.", "Zetterstedt, J. W. (1859) s. n. 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