Rhamphomyia hirtula Zetterstedt

• 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 hirtula; Greenland; Sinclair; Arctic; Novaja Zemlja; Novaya Zemlya
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4407632; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4407632

Rhamphomyia hirtula Zetterstedt (Fig. 56) Rhamphomyia hirtula Zetterstedt, 1842: 421. Type-locality: Greenland. Other references: Barták & Danielson, 2007: 111 (type data); Sinclair et al., 2019: 78 (revision, redescription, full list of references). 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 (revision). Material examined. RUSSIA. Archangelskaya Prov. (Novaya Zemlya Archipelago): Novaja Zemlja, acad. Baer, 1837 (2 ♂, ZIN); Propaschaya Guba, sea shore, in mountains, 18.vii.1912, S. Skribova (1 ♀, ZIN). Recognition. Mid-sized (wing length 5.5–6 mm) blackish, dark-legged, black setose robust flies. Male (Fig. 56): holoptic; antenna dark, scape and pedicel with long fine setae on outer side, minute setulae on inner side; palpus dark with numerous long fine setae; labrum nearly 1.3X longer than head height; thorax mostly greyish brown pruinose; scutum dark brown pruinescent, slightly lustrous, with two hardly visible and slightly paler vittae between rows of acr and dc; prosternum bare, upper proepisternum in front of spiracle with several long fine setae; mesonotal setae mostly fine (including acr and dc), hardly differentiated, acr 2–3-serial, present on anterior half of prescutellar depression, presutural dc multiserial, not separated from supra-alars by bare space, 12–20 sctl; legs robust, hind tibia slightly uniformly incrassate; fore femur with numerous long fine setae anteroventrally, posteroventrally and posteriorly; mid femur with very short anteroventral (except near base) and somewhat longer posteroventral setae; hind femur with numerous moderately long setae anteroventrally and ventrally; fore and mid tibiae with rows of several moderately long strong setae dorsally and some fine setae posteriorly; hind tibia with numerous long strong setae dorsally and long fine setae anteroventrally, 1 ...