Five additions to the list of Sepsidae Diptera for Vietnam: Perochaeta cuirassa sp. n., Perochaeta lobo sp. n., Sepsis spura sp. n., Sepsis sepsi Ozerov, 2003 and Sepsis monostigma Thompson, 1869
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Ang, Yuchen
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Meier, Rudolf
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Sepsis monostigma Thompson, 1869
Figs 15-17
Sepsis monostigma
Thompson, 1869. Kongliga svenska fregatten Eugenies resa omkring Jorden, 2(1): 443.
Material.
♂♂♀♀ (RMBR), Vietnam,
Lao
Cai Province, Sa Pa Valley. From ex culture established from ♀ collected from dung on cow farm, 4km NE of Sa Pa town [22°21'28.19"N; 103°51'53.35"E, elevation 1250m ASL]. Collected 15.VII.2010 (Ang Y).
Figures 15-23. Various
Sepsis
forelegs and hypopygia.
Sepsis monostigma
:15 fore femur, posterior 16 fore tibia, posterior 17 hypopygium, dorsal.
Sepsis sepsi
: 18 fore femur, posterior 19 fore tibia, posterior 20 hypopygium, dorsal.
Sepsis nitens
: 21 fore femur, posterior 22 fore tibia, posterior 23 hypopygium, dorsal. Scale bars: 0.5mm.
Taxonomic remarks.
Sepsis monostigma
is an Oriental species that resembles
Sepsis pseudomonostigma
Ursu, 1969 but is geographically exclusive from
Sepsis pseudomonostigma
(which has only been recorded in South and South-east Europe and Central Asia).
Sepsis monostigma
can be differentiated by the two long medioventral spines (one short spine in
Sepsis pseudomonostigma
) on the fore femur (Fig. 15), lack of ventromedial spinules on the fore tibia (Fig. 16) and surstylus (Fig. 17) being much thinner than that in
Sepsis pseudomonostimga
.
Distribution.
China (Guandong), Taiwan, India (Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal), Japan (Hokkaido Is., Honshu Is., Kyushu Is.), Korea, Philippines (Luzon Is.), Sri Lanka, South Russia (Amurskaya
Oblast'
, Irkutskaya
Oblast'
, Khabarovskiy Kray, Krasnoyarskiy Kray, Novosibirskaya
Oblast'
, Primorskiy Kray, Sakhalinskaya
Oblast'
), Vietnam (
Lao
Cai).