A revision of the Old World species of Leptopsilopa Cresson (Insecta: Diptera: Ephydridae)
Author
Zatwarnicki, Tadeusz
Author
Cielniak, Magdalena
Author
Pochrząst, Katarzyna
text
Zootaxa
2016
4093
3
343
362
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4093.3.3
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Athyroglossa mianii
(Canzoneri)
,
new combination
Leptopsilopa mianii
Canzoneri, 1987: 93
.
Type
material examined.
a
holotype
female double mounted in good condition labelled: "Nilo Azzurro Kartoum North
12-XII-80
leg. Rallo" (handwritten), "
HOLOTYPUS
♀
Leptopsilopa mianii
nov. det. Canzoneri S." (red, name handwritten), "MUSEO CIVICO
DI
STORIA NATURALE
DI
VENEZIA Materiale tipico descritto Inv. n. 03077" (orange, number handwritten) preserved in MCSNV.
Diagnosis.
Length
1.8 mm
. Antenna black, basiflagellomere with gray-yellow microtomentum; arista with seven rays. Frons bluish-black, shiny, Face narrow, shining blue, microtomentose medially, with transverse striae forming four parallel stout folds, face in profile very little produced, compared to eye margin; one facial seta fairly strong, located at dorsal transverse fold, and three others, of decreasing length, in line with the other transverse folds. Gena narrow, bluish black (gena-to-eye ratio 0.25). Mesonotum and scutellum black, shining. Fore coxa black, trochanter yellow, femur and tibia brownish-black. Mid and hind femora partially darkened, mid and hind tibiae yellow, all tarsi pale yellow. Wings hyaline with veins yellow-brown. Second costal section longer than third (costal vein ratio 0.3). Abdomen brown-black, shiny.
Distribution.
Sudan
.