Descriptions of the spermathecae and male genitalia of the species of Crocidium Loew described by Hesse (Diptera, Bombyliidae, Crocidiinae)
Author
Lamas, Carlos José Einicker
Author
Evenhuis, Neal L.
Author
Couri, Márcia Souto
text
Zootaxa
2002
45
1
12
journal article
51451
10.5281/zenodo.155823
70be80ff-0837-4469-a353-20a756f5080f
11755326
155823
Crocidium phaenochilum
Hesse, 1938
(
Fig. 15
)
Crocidium phaenochilum
Hesse 1938
: 791
, 803805;
Hesse, 1963
: 288
;
Hull, 1973
: 185
;
Bowden, 1980
: 399
;
Evenhuis & Greathead, 1999
: 217
.
Spermathecae
: spermathecae without a conspicuous reservoir, distinguished only by a darker area on the extremities of the spermathecal ducts. This area with longitudinal axis equivalent to 3 times of sperm pump length; spermathecal ducts 10 times longer than sperm pump, uniting to form a short common spermathecal duct; sperm pump placed at nearly ½ of the spermathecal duct; sclerotized collars developed on both ends of sperm pumps. (
Fig. 15
).
Material examined
:
Paratype
.
South Africa
. Northern Cape: Kamieskroon (Namaqualand),
2 females
(one dissected),
Nov. 1936
, (collector unknown). Deposited in the South African Museum, Cape Town,
South Africa
.