Hilara ragasides Frey 1935

• Main Author: Shamshev, Igor V.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Empididae; Hilara; Hilara ragasides; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3812094; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/1104DE185002FFFC5CBCFACDFBE1585C

ragasides Frey, 1935: 6 ( Hilara ) Current name. Hilara ragasides Frey, 1935. Type locality (by lectotype designation): Russia, Kamchatka. Notes on the type series. Frey described this species from both sexes after an unspecified number of specimens. He noted the following material: “ 1 ♂, Kamtchatka (Malaise), daneben zahlreiche Exemplare im Helsing- forser Museum aus Kamtchatka: Bolscherjetsk (Wuorentaus)”. Type material examined. LECTOTYPE (here designated in order to fix identity of the species), ♂ (Fig. 15), labelled (Fig. 16): “ Kamtchatka / Malaise”; “924”; “Spec. typ.”; “ Hilara / rhagasides [sic!]/ Frey [hand-written by Frey] Frey det.”; “ Hilara / ragasides Frey, 1935 / design. Shamshev, 2020” (NHRS). PARALECTOTYPES: RUSSIA, Kamchatskiy Territory: Ust-Bolscheretsk, 21.vii–19.viii.1917, Wuorentaus; Paralectotypus, Hilara ragasides Frey, 1935, design. Shamshev & Kahanpää, 2020 (3 ♂, 2 ♀, MZH). Diagnosis. Rather mid-sized species of the H . maura group, distinguished from other species of this group by the following combination of characters: hind femur slender, “knees” of legs yellowish, sensory pit not guarded by setulae, acrostichals biserial, wing whitish, male mid tibia with dense long setae, female hind tibia simple. Re-description. Male (Fig. 15). Lectotype body length 3.4 mm, wing length 3.6 mm [Frey notes body length 3.4–4 mm, wing length 3.5 mm]. Head (Fig. 17) black. Frons uniformly velvety blackish brown, very wide; 2 up- per frontal setae very long, strong. Face below antennae nearly as broad as frons, rather short, mostly concolourous with frons, narrowly shiny along lower margin. Ocellar triangle concolourous with frons, pair of ocellar setae nearly as long as upper frontals. Occiput uniformly velvety blackish (any view); with black stronger setae on upper part and pale hair-like setae on lower part; upper postoculars long. Antenna entirely black; postpedicel short, nearly 2X longer than wide; stylus nearly 2X shorter than postpedicel. Palpus brown; with 1 long, black, ventral seta on ...