Rhamphomyia (Pararhamphomyia) ursinella Melander

• 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 ursinella; Arctic; Bernard Harbour; Hudson Bay; Kotelny Island; New Siberian Islands; Nunavut; Russian Arctic islands; Svalbard; Yakutia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4477234; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/7B7E785C644E9F3F57EEF966FF23E885

Rhamphomyia ( Pararhamphomyia ) ursinella Melander (Fig. 48) Rhamphomyia ursina Malloch, 1919: 46. Type-locality: Bernard Harbour, Nunavut, Canada. Rhamphomyia ursinella Melander, 1928: 209 (replacement name for ursina Malloch, preoccupied by Oldenberg, 1915: 91). Other references: Sinclair et al ., 2019: 71 (type material, redescription, full list of references). Material examined. RUSSIA. Yakutia (New Siberian Islands): centre of Kotelny Island, upper flow of river Balykhtakh near mouth of river Tuguttakh, arctic desert on flowers, 15.vii.1973, KBG (20 ♂, 20 ♀, ZIN). Recognition. Mid-sized (wing length 3.6–4.5 mm) blackish flies. Male (Fig. 48) holoptic; anepisternum with shiny spot; scutum with 2 narrow shiny median vittae (sometimes with less distinct subshiny vitta on supra-alar space); thorax black setose, presutural dc long, fine, 2–3-serial, acr similar to dc, biserial, 10–12 sctl; legs dark brown, hind basitarsus thickened apically, all tibiae and basitarsi clothed in dense long fine setae, hind tibia covered with these setae over entire dorsal face; wing infuscate, CuA+CuP incomplete, halter brown; abdomen very faintly pruinescent, almost shiny, with black setae; epandrium elongate, slightly constricted at middle; cercus elongate, about 2/3 length of epandrium, slightly constricted medially; phallus well exposed, filamentous, long, gently curved slightly beyond epandrium. Female with darker wing, short setose slender legs without pennate setae. Distribution. Holarctic; R . ursinella is widespread across the low to high arctic region of North America, east of Hudson Bay (Sinclair et al . 2019). In Eurasia, this species was found only from New Siberian Islands of Arctic Russia. Published as part of Shamshev, Igor V., Sinclair, Bradley J. & Khruleva, Olga A., 2020, The empidoid flies (Diptera: Empidoidea, exclusive of Dolichopodidae) of the Russian Arctic islands and Svalbard Archipelago, pp. 1-75 in Zootaxa 4848 (1) on pages 45-46, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4848.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4406987