Rhamphomyia (Pararhamphomyia) submacrura Shamshev & Sinclair & Khruleva 2020, sp. nov.

• Main Authors: Shamshev, Igor V., Sinclair, Bradley J., Khruleva, Olga A.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Chironomidae; Rhamphomyia; Rhamphomyia submacrura; Alar; Gora; Seta; Sinclair; Sovetskaya; Wrangel Island; Arctic; Chukotka
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4407626; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4407626

Rhamphomyia (Pararhamphomyia) submacrura Shamshev & Sinclair sp. nov. (Figs 43, 44) urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 6D5C99D5-DC42-4972-857E-D9A31B87234A Type material. HOLOTYPE ♂, labelled: [RUSSIA: Chukotka AO (Wrangel Island)] “Somnitelnaya Bay,/ south o. [= ostrov, island] Wrangel/ Gorodkov 20.vii.[1]966”; “ 400 m / Mineev Mountains, S g. [= gora, mountain] Sovetskaya”; “ Holotypus / Rhamphomyia / submacrura / Shamshev, Sinclair sp. n. [red label]” (INS_DIP_0000615, ZIN; terminalia dissected, in microvial pinned with specimen). Diagnosis. Rather large brownish grey species of the R. pusilla group with long, slender legs, curiously long epandrium and, especially, phallus; presutural dc setae multiserial, halter brownish; hind tibia and basitarsus only slightly thickened; phallus extremely long, hair-like. Description. Male (Fig. 43). Wing length 6.7 mm, body length about 6.5 mm. Head with brownish grey pruinescence on face, frons, postgena, ocellar triangle and occiput; dark setose. Eyes holoptic, touching on frons. Ocellar triangle with several long fine setae. Occiput with numerous uniformly long thin setae, including postoculars. Antenna blackish brown; scape and pedicel short, scape slightly longer, both with short setulae; postpedicel conical, 3X longer than wide; stylus short, slightly shorter than postpedicel basal width. Palpus dark; with numerous long, dark fine setae. Labrum nearly of head height. Thorax densely brownish grey pruinescent; with black setation; scutum uniformly brownish pruinescent, without vittae. Proepisternum with tuft of several long fine setae on lower section; upper proepisternum in front of spiracle without setae. Prosternum bare. Antepronotum with numerous fine setae shorter dorsally and longer laterally. Postpronotal seta hardly distinguishable; postpronotal lobe with numerous setae of different lengths and robustness (1–2 long setae slightly stronger). Mesonotal setation: presutural supra-alar space covered with fine mostly short setae (1–2 setae longer), 4 npl (with numerous ...