Mesembrina decipiens Loew 1873

• Main Authors: Kuchta, James S., Savage, Jade
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Muscidae; Mesembrina; Mesembrina decipiens; Alta; Yukon; Canada; British Columbia; Bonaparte; Hani; West Dawson; Kultuk; Dawson; Slave Lake; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6233295; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6233295

Mesembrina decipiens Loew, 1873 Figs. 1 A, 1 D, 1 G, 2 A–D, 3 A–B Mesembrina decipiens Loew, 1873: 239. Mesembrina putziloi Portschinsky, 1873: 57. Hyperdermodes solitaria Knab, 1914: 325, syn. nov. Diagnosis: Large species resembling a bumble bee (Fig. 1 A). Gena dusted brownish. Thorax and abdomen with numerous yellow bristles (Fig. 1 A), no dusted white lines on prescutum. Wing base and calypters intensely yellow, M 1 vein ending past wing apex (Fig. 1 D). T 2 of males curved and elongated with row of fine pv setae increasing in lenght towards apex (Fig. 1 G). Type material examined: Mesembrina decipiens – Holotype ɗ labeled “Baical VI / Kultuk 61 ”; “Coll. / H. Loew”; “ Type ”; “ Mesembrina / decipiens / Lw.”; “ Holotype Ψ / Mesembrina / decipiens / Conf. A. C. Pont 1999 ”; “Zool. Mus. / Berlin” (ZMHU). Hyperdermodes solitaria – Holotype Ψ labeled “High Isl / Alberta”; “T. Baird / Hyth River / Alta”; “ Type / No. 18415 / U.S. N.M.”; “Hyperdermodes / solitarius / Knab” (USNM). The female holotype of M. putziloi, from Irkutsk, Russia is in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia. This specimen was recently examined by Pont (2004) who confirmed its status as a junior synonym of M. decipiens. Other material examined: 16 ɗ, 54 Ψ: NEARCTIC: Canada: Alberta: Banff, Bilby, Cypress Hills, Edmonton, Kananaskis Lakes, Lake Louise, Nojack, Slave Lake, Waterton Lakes Nat. Pk.; British Columbia: Aspen Grove, Kamloops, Penticton, Salmon Arm, Trinity Valley; Manitoba: Erikson; Ontario: Lake Nipigon; Yukon: Dawson, Dempster Hwy., La Force Lake, West Dawson; USA: Alaska: Homer, Isabel Pass, Matanuska, Palmer; Colorado: Culebra Mts., Mt. Evans, Pingree Park, Sierra Blanca; Michigan: Isle Royale; Montana: Pipestone Pass; North Carolina: Great Smoky Mts. Nat. Pk.; Washington: Mt. Bonaparte; PALAEARCTIC: China: Jilin: Hani; Mongolia: Tunkun; Russia: Sibirskiy: Kargasok, Trans-Baikal; (JBWM, CNC, BMNH, USNM, UZMH). Description: Male: body length 11.3–14.3mm Head: Background color black, ...