Microprosopa haemorrhoidalis

• Main Author: Iwasa, Mitsuhiro
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Scathophagidae; Microprosopa; Microprosopa haemorrhoidalis; Seta; Lapponia; Yakutia; Siberia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5047229; https://zenodo.org/record/5047229

Microprosopa haemorrhoidalis (Meigen, 1826) [Japanese name: Miyama-hoso-funbae] (Figs 44–48) Cordylura haemorrhoidalis Meigen, 1826: 237. Type-locality: “ Schweden ”. Cordylura pallipes (Zetterstedt, 1838): 732. Type-localities: “Lapponia; Scania ” [Sweden]. Cordylura lividepes Zetterstedt, 1848: 2042. Type-locality: “Lapponia Lulensi ad Qvickjock” [Sweden]. Material examined. Hokkaido , 3♂, Mt. Kaundake-Tenninkyo, Mt. Daisetsu-zan, 28. vii. 1983, leg. M. Iwasa. Diagnosis. This species is comparatively smaller-sized species and characterized as follows: frons black in anterior and posterior parts and yellow in central part; postpedicel black; arista pubescent; thorax black with grey dusting; katepisternum (Fig. 44) with a single seta; fore tibia ventrally with a row of short black spines (Fig. 45); abdominal tergites black and subshiny; legs yellow; posterior lobes on male sternite V tapered apically and curved inward (Fig. 46); male surstyli broad, tapering apically in lateral view (Figs. 47); male cerci covered with setulae, apically close to each other (Fig. 48). Body length (♂ ♀). 5.5–5.6 mm. Distribution. Europe, Russia (The European part, Siberia, the Far East), North America (Bagachanova et al ., 2016), Japan (Hokkaido). New to Japan. Remarks. This species can be easily distinguished from other known species of the Microprosopa by having posterior lobes on sternite V which are tapered apically and curved inward, and broad surstyli in posterior view in male. : Published as part of Iwasa, Mitsuhiro, 2021, Three new species and six new records of Scathophagidae (Diptera) from Japan with a key to the Japanese genera, pp. 531-553 in Zootaxa 4981 (3) on pages 547-548, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4981.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/4921413 : {"references": ["Meigen, J. W. (1826) Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweifluglien Insecten. Vol. 5. Schulz, Hamm, xii + 412 pp.", "Zetterstedt, J. W. (1838) Dipterologis Scandinaviae, Sectio tertia. Diptera. In: Insecta Lapponica. Leopold Voss, Lispiae, pp. 477 - 868. [1840]", "Bagachanova, A. K., Ovchinnikov, A. N. & Ozerov, A. L. (2016) On the fauna of Scathophagidae (Diptera) of Yakutia. Entomological Review, 96, 775 - 785. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / S 0013873816060087"]}