Rhamphomyia hirtula Zetterstedt

• Main Authors: Sinclair, Bradley J., Vajda, Élodie A., Saigusa, Toyohei, Shamshev, Igor V., Wheeler, Terry A.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Chironomidae; Rhamphomyia; Rhamphomyia hirtula; Yukon; Canada; Greenland; Ogilvie; Vindbelgjarfjall; Arctic; Iceland; Tasiusaq
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3796952; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3796952

Rhamphomyia hirtula Zetterstedt (Figs 53, 54) Rhamphomyia hirtula Zetterstedt, 1842: 421. Type-locality: Greenland. Other references: Melander, 1928: 194 (catalogue); Collin, 1931: 67 (faunal survey); Henriksen, 1939: 80 (Greenland list); Nielsen et al., 1954: 51 (Iceland); Messersmith, 1982: 37 (Iceland records); Barták & Danielson, 2007: 111 (type data); Barták, 2015: 576 (Greenland fauna). Rhamphomyia (Pararhamphomyia) hirtula Zetterstedt: Frey, 1955b: 482 (revision); Chvála & Wagner, 1989: 301 (catalogue); Yang et al., 2007: 171 (catalogue); Shamshev, 2016: 64 (checklist). Rhamphomyia (Rhamphomyia) hirtula Zetterstedt: Collin, 1961: 401 (British empidids). Type material. Not examined (see type details in Barták & Danielson (2007: 111)). Additional material examined. CANADA. Yukon: km 465 Dempster Hwy, 5–7.vii. 1980, 800 m, D.M. Wood & J. D. Lafontaine (1 ♂, CNC); Ogilvie Mts, Mt. Klotz, on snowfield, 65°24′N 140°06′W, 6–8.vii.1985, K. Mikkola (1 ♂, CNC); Ogilvie Mts, site #2 (helicopter), 14.vii.1985, S.A. Marshall (2 ♂, UGIC); Richardson Mts, 66°44′N 140°06′W, 3200 ft, with prey, 8.vii.1982, D.M. Wood (1 ♂, 1 ♀, CNC). GREENLAND. Tassiusak [= Tasiusaq], 24.vii.1889, Lundbeck (1 ♂, USNM); Grönlandia, Lundb. det. (1 ♂, 1 ♀, MZH). ICELAND. Myvata, sweeping west side of Vindbelgjarfjall, 1.vii.1981, 1355/1/3 –500, J.A. Downes (2 ♂, 2 ♀, CNC); Myvata, Rd. to Skutustadir, 1357/2/15, 3.vii.1981, J.A. Downes (1 ♂, CNC); Asheidi, Kelduhverfi Nord-Pingeyiarsysia, 28.vi.1981, 1352/3/1– 2, ex. with Sim. vittatum prey, O.K Nielsen & J.O. Hilmarsson (1 ♂, CNC). Diagnosis. This black hairy species is distinguished from other species of the Rhamphomyia hirtula group by the bifurcate male cerci with hook-like dorso-basal projection, phallus filamentous apically with distinct medial loop, apex of epandrium with dorsoapical cluster of fine erect setae and ventroapical cluster of long, oblique setae. Female mid and hindlegs are without pennate setae. Redescription. Wing length 5.5–6 mm. Male. Head dark in ...