Spiriverpa Irwin and Lyneborg ...

• Main Author: Webb, Donald W.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2005
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Therevidae; Spiriverpa; Lapponia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6264598; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6264598

Spiriverpa Irwin and Lyneborg Spiriverpa Irwin and Lyneborg (1981a:214 orig. desc.; 1981b:522 key), Lyneborg (1989:24 cat.), Nagatomi and Lyneborg (1989:359 add. desc.). Type species Thereva lunulata Zetterstedt (1838:523), by original designation. Type locality: Norway (Lapponia, Norvegica). Spiriverba: Zaitzev (1986:4, misspelling of Spiriverpa). Irwin and Lyneborg (1981a:214) provided an extensive description of this genus. The following are additions to the description of Irwin and Lyneborg. Moderate sized flies, male (6.8–11.5 mm, n=54), female (6.8–12.2 mm, n=55). Head. Ocellar tubercle reddish brown, pruinescence gray; setae dark brown to black. Eyes reddish brown. Frons lacking black pruinescent band lateral to antennal base. Antenna generally shorter than length of head; scape cylindrical, longer than wide, longer than length of pedicel; pedicel globose, wider than long; flagellum longer than wide, subequal to or longer than length of scape, first flagellomere oval, distal third tapered apically, ... : Published as part of Webb, Donald W., 2005, A revision of the Holarctic genus Spiriverpa Irwin and Lyneborg (Diptera: Therevidae: Therevinae), pp. 1-56 in Zootaxa 816 on pages 9-10, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.170604 ...