Scatella tenuicosta Collin ...

• Main Author: Yang, Junhua Zhang Ding
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2005
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Ephydridae; Scatella; Scatella tenuicosta; Iceland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6267279; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6267279

Scatella tenuicosta Collin (Figs. 30–38) Scatella (Scatella) tenuicosta Collin, 1930: 136. Type locality: Great Britain. Scatella (Scatella) thermarum Collin, 1930: 138. Type locality: Iceland. Diagnosis. Oral seta longer than width of antennal segment 3. Eye­to­cheek ratio, male 1: 0.26. Fore femur with row of pv nearly as long as width of fore femur. Wing dark brown with five distinct hyaline spots, spots located cell R4+5 near tip of wing like the body of a violin, veins near spots bent. Cercus thick and short, surstylus without inner incision at tip in posterior view; ventral receptacle large, tube­like, about 3.0 times as long as wide. Description. Male body length 1.9 mm, wing length 2.1 mm. Head subshiny black, with thin rusty pollen; mesofrons nearly polished with reddish brown pollen. Setulae and setae on head black; 1outer vt as long as 1 inner vt; 1 pair of strong oc; 4 lateroclinate orb, the first and the third thin and short. Protruding face black with rusty pollen, with 2 long dorsoclinate ... : Published as part of Yang, Junhua Zhang Ding, 2005, Review of the subgenus Scatella Robineau­Desvoidy, 1830 from China (Diptera: Ephydridae), pp. 1-11 in Zootaxa 931 on pages 8-10, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.171138 ...