Rhamphomyia (Eorhamphomyia) shewelli Sinclair, Vajda, Saigusa & Shamshev

• Main Authors: Shamshev, Igor V., Sinclair, Bradley J., Khruleva, Olga A.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Chironomidae; Rhamphomyia; Rhamphomyia shewelli; Arctic; Chukotka; Coral Harbour; Southampton Island; Wrangel Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4407587; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/7B7E785C64789F0957EEFBC9FB7CE9A5

Rhamphomyia ( Eorhamphomyia ) shewelli Sinclair, Vajda, Saigusa & Shamshev (Fig. 26) Rhamphomyia ( Eorhamphomyia ) shewelli Sinclair et al ., 2019: 29. Type locality: Coral Harbour, Southampton Island, Canada. Material examined. RUSSIA. Chukotka AO (Wrangel Island): middle flow of Mamontovaya River, N of Perkatkun, osier-bed in river valley, 17.vii.1972, KBG (1 ♀, ZIN); same locality, 71°10′N 179°45′W, BT 3, 29.vi.–9.vii.2006, OAK (1 ♂, ZIN); same locality and biotope, 9.vii.2006, OAK (1 ♀, ZIN); same locality and biotope, 1.vii.2015, leg. OAK (3 ♀, ZIN); same locality, BT 1 А, 2.vii.2015, OAK (1 ♂, ZIN); same locality, BT 20 А, 2–4.vii.2015, OAK (2 ♂, ZIN); same locality, 71°10′N 179°45′W, BT 7, 1.vii.2015, OAK (1 ♂, ZIN); upper flow of river Neizvestnaya, 71°13′N 179°19′W, BT С1, 24.vi.2015, OAK (1 ♀, ZIN); same locality, BT 7 А, 25.vi.–10.vii.2015, OAK (1 ♀, ZIN); middle flow of Neizvestnaya River, 71°20.287′N 179°29.779′W, BT 1, YPT, 5–14.vii.2018, U. V. Babiy (1 ♀, ZIN); same locality, 71°20.416′N 179°29.651′W, BT 2, YPT, 13–14.vii.2018, U. V. Babiy (3 ♂, 2 ♀, ZIN); same locality and biotope, YPT, 4–5.vii.2019, U. V. Babiy (4 ♂, 4 ♀, ZIN). Recognition. Mid-sized (wing length 4.7–5.3 mm) blackish species. Male (Fig. 26) holoptic; thorax black setose, scutum with pair of pruinescent vittae anteriorly, sometimes lustrous posteriorly; supra-alar region with broad shiny stripe, mesonotal setae well differentiated, presutural dc 3–4-serial, acr biserial, 6–8 sctl (rarely 10); legs slender, entirely dark brown, no modified podomeres, hind femur with minute anteroventral setulae (except several longer setae near extreme base), all tibiae with rows of long ad and pd setae; wing faintly infuscate, axillary incision very acute, at most 45°, halter yellow; abdomen pruinose dorsally and narrowly shiny laterally; phallus short, almost entirely hidden within epandrium and cerci, at most very short portion between lower margin of epandrium and hypandrium visible, hypandrium well exposed, subtriangular. Female with ...