Anthepiscopus ribesii Becker 1891

• Main Author: Wahlberg, Emma
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Ragadidae; Anthepiscopus; Anthepiscopus ribesii; Lappland; Lapponia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3489126; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A6B675FFF7FFFA00DBD5BDFE87B0CD

Material examined of Anthepiscopus ribesii AUSTRIA • 2 ♂♂; Admont, Styria; 1896; Strobl leg.; NHMW. Material examined of Anthepiscopus oedalinus (Zetterstedt, 1838) SWEDEN • 1 ♀; [Lapponia inferior, Lappland]; [D. Boheman leg.]; NHRS-GULI000058763 • 1 ♂; same data as for preceding; NHRS-GULI000058764. Description Eyes bare; males holoptic. Scape with setae; postpedicel tapering, at least three times as long as wide; stylus cylindrical. Labrum straight in both sexes; epipharyngal blades and ventroapical comb absent. Postgena bare or with setae, not spine like. Prosternum separated from proepisternum forming an isolated sclerite; laterotergite bare. Stout spine like setae on anterior face of fore coxa and on inner ventral margin of fore trochanter absent; tubercle on fore coxa absent; male fore tarsal claws present. In wings, costal bristle absent; subcosta reaching costa; R 4+5 unbranched; CuA recurved (Fig. 9F). Female: tergite 10 fused to cercus. Male: postgonites as fused processes from hypandrium; apex of phallus simple. Distribution This genus is represented in the Nearctic and west Palearctic. In addition, one species is recorded from Australia. Published as part of Wahlberg, Emma, 2019, Revision and morphological analysis of the Ragadidae (Insecta, Diptera), pp. 1-19 in European Journal of Taxonomy 521 on page 16, DOI:10.5852/ejt.2019.521, http://zenodo.org/record/2656607