Rhamphomyia (Pararhamphomyia) nordqvistii Holmgren

• 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 nordqvistii; Seta; Sinclair; Dudinka; Arctic; Kamtschatka; Novaya Zemlya
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4488146; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4488146

Rhamphomyia (Pararhamphomyia) nordqvistii Holmgren (Fig. 38) Rhamphomyia nordqvistii Holmgren, 1880: 23. Type locality (by lectotype designation): Novaya Zemlya, Arkhangelskaya Province, Russia. Other references: Holmgren & Aurivillius, 1883: 164 (expedition results). Rhamphomyia nordquisti Holmgren: Frey, 1915: 3, 8 (faunistic survey); Sack, 1923: 7 (expedition results). Rhamphomyia nordquistii Holmgren: Bezzi, 1903: 228 (catalogue); Melander, 1928: 200 (catalogue). Rhamphomyia (Pararhamphomyia) nordqvisti Holmgren: Chvála & Wagner, 1989: 303 (catalogue); Shamshev, 2001b: 325 (key); Yang et al., 2007: 174 (catalogue). Rhamphomyia (Pararhamphomyia) nordqvistii Holmgren: Shamshev, 2016: 66 (checklist); Shamshev & Sinclair, 2018: 313 (lectotype designation, redescription). Rhamphomyia (Pararhamphomyia) eunordquisti Frey, 1922: 41 (as var. of R. obscura Zetterstedt). Type localities: “von Nord-Sibirien (Dudinka) und Kamtschatka ”, Russia. Other references: Melander, 1928: 201 (catalogue); Frey, 1955b: 490 (revision); Chvála & Wagner, 1989: 303 (catalogue); Yang et al., 2007: 174 (catalogue). Rhamphomyia (Pararhamphomyia) eunordqvisti Frey: Frey, 1935: 2 (expedition results). Recognition. This species remains known by the female sex only. Small (wing length of lectotype 3.2 mm) blackish flies (Fig. 38); thorax black setose, upper proepisternum in front of spiracle with 3 short setae; scutum brownish grey pruinescent; main mesonotal setae fine, hardly distinguishable, 4 npl, 6 sctl (4 stronger), presutural dc rather long, 2–3-serial, acr biserial; legs brownish, with simple setae, fore coxa with fine setae anteriorly; wing uniformly brownish infuscate, no distinct basal costal seta, CuA+CuP incomplete, axillary incision right-angled, halter brownish; abdomen dark brown, faintly greyish pruinescent, subshiny (lateral view), with brownish setae (extracted from Shamshev & Sinclair 2018: 313). Distribution. This species remains known only from Novaya Zemlya. In addition to the type material, Sack ...