One hundred years of solitude ended: A second species of Marmasoma White, 1916 (Diptera, Bombyliidae, Bombyliinae, Eclimini) from Australia
Author
Li, Xuankun
Author
Yeates, David K.
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-05-15
4420
1
34
42
journal article
30033
10.11646/zootaxa.4420.1.2
98c8228e-a395-48d7-a988-4aa01c6936f8
1175-5326
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Marmasoma
White, 1916
Marmasoma
White, 1916: 184
, 188.
Type
species:
Marmasoma sumptuosum
White, 1916
, by monotypy.
Diagnosis
(modified from
Rodrigues
et al
., 2017
).
Scape with numerous very long hairs, longer on ventral surface and laterally; face flat, not projecting in lateral view; occiput tumid, with bristles. Thorax postpronotal lobe and antepronotum with long and strong bristles; anepisternum with short scales admixed with strong hairs on dorsal margin; laterotergite and mediotergite with long and strong hairs and bristles. Abdomen decumbent with apex raised in male; tergites covered in scales. Male epandrium anterior margin with a deep notch, anteroventral corner with long stem; hypandrium absent; gonocoxite slender and elongate; gonocoxal apex as wide as the base in dorsal view, ejaculatory apodeme small; gonocoxal apodeme strong and incurved; lateral ejaculatory process small; inner and outer apexes of gonocoxite rounded; dorsal bridge without lateral hollow; gonostylus bifid apically; phallus long and strongly curved. Female sand chamber present; tergites 9 and 10 fused; acanthophorite spines not in a row; furca broad; sperm pump strong; sperm pump apical and basal collars absent; spermatheca elongate, cylindrical with apex slightly swollen.
Distribution.
ACT, NSW, SA, VIC, TAS, WA.
Species included.
Marmasoma sumptuosum
and
Marmasoma hortorum
sp. nov.