The Canacidae of the Arabian Peninsula (Diptera: Brachycera: Carnoidea)
Author
Munari, Lorenzo
text
Zootaxa
2016
4092
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489
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journal article
51564
10.11646/zootaxa.4092.4.2
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Tethina callosirostris
Munari, 2008
(figs. 18─20)
Tethina callosirostris
Munari, 2008a: 673
[
United Arab Emirates
: near Sweihan; HT ♂, NMWC].
Distribution.
Afrotropical
:
United Arab Emirates
.
Diagnosis.
Body length 2.0‒
2.5 mm
; yellowish brown species with brown spot on the scutellum (fig. 18); setal vestiture pale yellow to golden brown; wings yellowish. Head higher than long; ventral face protrudent; facial knob strongly callose (much more obvious than in all other congeners of the
alboguttata
-group); eye small, noticeably oblique and oblong, its longest diameter twice as long as genal height; gena broad, yellow, uniformly microtomentose; mouth parts with labella much shorter than the length of the buccal cavity; thorax brownish, with mesonotum bearing more or less obvious longitudinal brown stripes; prescutellar acrostichals, if present, rather short and thin; both proepisternal and proepimeral setae present; katepisternum with longitudinal, median, black stripe, or even with ventral half brownish to entirely black; meron blackish; wing vein CuA1 blackish on its distal half; crossveins without any trace of white halo; surstylus of male terminalia with characteristic anterobasal lobe bearing long setae, posteroventral lobe with erect setae (figs 19‒20).