Metalimnobia (Metalimnobia) tenua Savchenko

• Main Authors: Mao, Meng, Yang, Ding
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Limoniidae; Metalimnobia; Metalimnobia tenua; Kamchatka Peninsula; Plotnikova; Yelizovskiy Rayon; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6199213; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6199213

Metalimnobia (Metalimnobia) tenua Savchenko (Figs. 7, 32– 35) Metalimnobia quadrinotata tenua Savchenko in Savchenko and Krivolutskaya, 1976: 151. Type locality: Kamchatka Peninsula, Yelizovskiy rayon, Dalniy, Plotnikova River valley. Metalimnobia (Metalimnobia) tenua Stary, 2006: 175 –186. Diagnosis. Femora yellowish brown with two black rings, first indistinct, at 4 / 5 length of femora, second at tip, narrower than subapical yellow ring. One small spot between base of cell R and origin of Rs. Terminal section of R 1 bent to wing margin in right angle. Paramere subtriangular, with tip narrow and acute. Description. Male. Body length 12.8 –14.0 mm, wing 14.5–15.8 mm. Head. Yellowish brown with pale gray pollen, except vertex brownish black. One small median tubercle between eyes. Hairs on head black. Antenna 2.4–2.6 mm. Scape and pedicel yellowish brown, flagellomeres brownish black, suboval to subcylindrical, apical segments elongate, verticils considerably longer than segments. Proboscis and palpus black with black hairs. Thorax. General brownish yellow with pale gray pollen. Pronotum yellowish brown except dorsal surface brownish black. Prescutum yellowish brown with four black stripes, median pair long and slender, lateral pair short and broad. Median region of scutum yellowish brown, lobes black. Scutellum and mediotergite brownish yellow. Pleura yellowish brown, variegated by darker areas. Hairs on thorax black. Coxae and trochanters pale yellow; femora yellowish brown with two black rings, first indistinct, at 4 / 5 length of femora, second at tip, narrower than subapical yellow ring; tibiae yellowish brown with tip darker; tarsi brownish black. Hairs on legs black. Wing (Fig. 7) brownish hyaline, with dark brown spots at base of cell R, origin and fork of Rs and each side of stigma, one small spot between base of cell R and origin of Rs; seams along crossveins r-m, m-m, mcu and basal sections of cells M 1 + 2 and M 3; obscure brownish irregular clouds in all marginal cells, arranged in transverse band ...