Rhamphomyia (Pararhamphomyia) hoeli : Frey 1955

• 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 hoeli; Arctic; Chukotka; Greenland; Tundra; Wrangel Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4407616; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/7B7E785C647D9F3357EEFA01FEE7E885

Rhamphomyia ( Pararhamphomyia ) hoeli Frey (Fig. 34) Rhamphomyia ( Pararhamphomyia ) hoelsi Frey, 1950: 100. Type-locality: Greenland. Rhamphomyia hoeli : Frey, 1955b: 482 (revision); Downes, 1970: 779 (behaviour); Danks, 1981: 465 (arctic insects); Yang et al ., 2007: 171, 195 (catalogue); Barták, 2015: 576 (Greenland fauna); Sinclair et al ., 2019: 50 (lectotype designation, redescription). Material examined. Russia. Chukotka AO (Wrangel Island): Somnitelnaya Bay, on flower of Dryas integrifolia , spotted tundra, 19.vii.1966, KBG (2 ♂, 2 ♀, ZIN); environs of pass Vjuchny, NW Somnitelnaya Bay, 21.vii.1972, KBG (1 ♂, ZIN); 5 km N Somnitelnaya Bay, valley of Somnitelnaya River, small meadow, 25.vii.1972, KBG (2 ♀, ZIN); same locality, 7–8.vii.1972, KBG (2 ♀, ZIN); Somnitelnaya Bay, valley of Somnitelnaya River, Mineev Mtns, 150 m, pebbles, on flower of Potentilla emarginata , 22.vii.1966, KBG (7 ♂, 3 ♀, ZIN); near north slope of Berri Peak, 6 km ESE Sovetskaya Mtn, 15.vii.1972, KBG (5 ♂, 2 ♀, ZIN); upper flow of Khischniki River, 7 km SE mountain Sovetskaya, Dryas tundra near river, 200 m, 11.vii.1972, KBG (7 ♂, 2 ♀, ZIN); middle flow of Mamontovaya River, N Perkatkun, osier-bed in river valley, 17,22. vii.1972, KBG (8 ♂, 1 ♀, ZIN); same locality, 71°10′N 179°45′W, BT 20 A, YPT, 2–4.vii.2015, OAK (1 ♂, ZIN); spurs of Pervaya Mtn, 71°09′N, 179°27′W, BT 11, Sw, 28.vi.2015, OAK (2 ♂, ZIN); same locality, BT 14, Sw, 28.vi.2015, OAK (1 ♂, ZIN); upper flow of Neizvestnaya River, 71°13′N, 179°19′W, BT 5 А, 26.vi.2006, OAK (1 ♂, ZIN); same locality and biotope, 26.vi.2015, OAK (1♂, ZIN). Recognition. Rather small species (wing length 3.5–4.2 mm) with dark legs and densely pruinescent thorax and abdomen. Male (Fig. 34) holoptic; antenna dark brown; scutum brownish grey with two indistinct darker vittae between rows of acr and dc (dorsal view); thorax dark setose, upper proepisternum in front of spiracle with 0–2 short setae; mesonotal setae well differentiated, bristle-like, acrostichals and dorsocentrals long, ...