Microprosopa pallidicauda

• Main Author: Iwasa, Mitsuhiro
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Scathophagidae; Microprosopa; Microprosopa pallidicauda; Kengis; Tornensis; Wilhelmina; Lapponia; Siberia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5047233; https://zenodo.org/record/5047233

Microprosopa pallidicauda (Zetterstedt, 1838) [Japanese name: Haiiro-hoso-funbae] (Figs 49–51) Cordylura pallidicauda Zetterstedt, 1838: 733. Type-locality: “Lycksele Lapponiae Umensis … Juckasjervi Lapponiae Tornensis… (Lapponia Suecica et sylvatica)” [Sweden]. Cordylura melanura Zetterstedt, 1838: 731. Type-locality: “Kengis Lapponiae Tornensis… Stensele, Umenaes, Wilhelmina et Asele, Lapponia Umensis” [Sweden]. Material examined. Honshu , 9 ♂, Mt. Norikura, Gifu Pref., 4. viii. 1952, leg. I. Hattori; 2 ♀, same locality and date, leg. S. Kato. Diagnosis. This species can be recognized by the following characteristics: frontal vitta reddish yellow, face and parafacial black to pale yellow; gena and postgena pale yellow; palpi spatulate and white; postpedicel rounded apically, about 2 times as long as wide; thorax black with grey dusting; legs yellow, only mid and hind coxae black; fore femur with a row of posterodorsal setae, with numerous hairs anteriorly and ventrally; abdominal tergites black and greyish dusted; posterior lobes on male sternite V basally wide, with one row of spinules on inside margin (Fig. 49); male surstyli simple and slender (Figs 50, 51). Body length (♂ ♀). 6.0–6.2 mm. Distribution. Europe, Russia (European territory, West and East Siberia, Far East) (Ozerov, 2017) and Japan (Honshu). Remarks. This species is easily distinguished from M. haemorrhoidalis Meigen by having posterior lobes on sternite V which are basally stout, and by the shape of surstyli. : 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 548-549, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4981.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/4921413 : {"references": ["Zetterstedt, J. W. (1838) Dipterologis Scandinaviae, Sectio tertia. Diptera. In: Insecta Lapponica. Leopold Voss, Lispiae, pp. 477 - 868. [1840]", "Ozerov, A. L. (2017) A review of the genus Microprosopa Becker, 1894 (Diptera: Scathophagidae) of Russia. Russian Entomological Journal, 25, 71 - 99. https: // doi. org / 10.15298 / rusentj. 26.1.10"]}