Diversity Of Chelipoda Macquart, 1823 (Diptera: Empididae: Hemerodromiinae) In Northern Thailand With Discussion Of A Biodiversity ‘ Hot Spot’ At Doi Inthanon
Author
Plant, Adrian R.
text
Raffles Bulletin of Zoology
2009
2009-08-31
57
2
255
277
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5342006
2345-7600
5342006
Chelipoda
Macquart, 1823
Diagnosis. –
A characteristic genus of the
Empididae
subfamily
Hemerodromiinae
with raptorial forelegs distinctly separated from the mid legs and fore femur bearing distinct rows of setae ventrally (
Figs. 25–27
).
Chelipoda
is distinguished from other southeast Asian
Hemerodromiinae
by the combination of (1) Postpedicel longer than wide, stylus longer (2) Katatergital setae present (3) Male genitalia strongly reflexed anteriorly (4) Cell dm closed (crossvein dm-cu present) (5) Anal vein (A
2
+CuA
2
) present (6) Cell br usually longer than cell bm, crossveins closing them not closely aligned (
Fig. 28
).