The empidoid flies (Diptera: Empidoidea, exclusive of Dolichopodidae) of the Russian Arctic islands and Svalbard Archipelago Author Shamshev, Igor V. Author Sinclair, Bradley J. 0000-0001-6413-1606 bradley.sinclair@canada.ca Author Khruleva, Olga A. 0000-0001-6602-0053 oa-khruleva@mail.ru text Zootaxa 2020 2020-09-07 4848 1 1 75 journal article 8607 10.11646/zootaxa.4848.1.1 47bc051d-f837-48ea-b9da-83558ea1af75 1175-5326 4406987 04C94342-9951-4452-9296-AACBD8956113 Rhamphomyia ( Rhamphomyia ) morio (Zetterstedt) ( Fig. 55 ) Rhamphomyza morio Zetterstedt, 1838: 565 . Type locality (by lectotype designation): Alteidet, Norway . Other references: Collin, 1961: 399 (type data); Barták, 1981: 395 ( lectotype designation). Rhamphomyza villosa Zetterstedt, 1838: 563 . Type locality: “Dowrefjell Norvegiae (Lappon. Norvegica)”, Norway . Other references: Collin, 1961: 399 (type data); Barták, 1981: 396 ( holotype data). Rhamphomyza fumipennis Zetterstedt, 1859: 5019 . Type locality: “Lapponia Umensi, ad Tarna”, Sweden . Other references: Collin, 1961: 399 (type data); Barták, 1981: 396 ( holotype data). Rhamphomyia ( Alpinomyia ) morio (Zetterstedt) : Frey, 1956: 573 (revision). Rhamphomyia ( Rhamphomyia ) morio (Zetterstedt) : Frey, 1922: 77 (key); Collin, 1961: 397 (revision); Gorodkov & Kovalev, 1969: 635 (key); Barták, 1981: 395 (revision), 1982: 408 (revision); Chvála & Wagner, 1989: 287 (catalogue); Yang et al ., 2007: 185 (catalogue); Shamshev, 2016: 78 (checklist). Material examined. RUSSIA . Murmanskaya Prov. ( Kildin Island ): 13.vii.1908 , L. Bianki ( 1 ♂ , ZIN ) . FIGURES 54, 55. Rhamphomyia ( Rhamphomyia ) , male, lateral view. 54. R . ( R .) albosegmentata (Zetterstedt) ; 55. R . ( R .) morio (Zetterstedt) . Recognition. Large (wing length 6–7.5 mm ) blackish grey, dark-legged, black setose flies. Male ( Fig. 55 ): holoptic, eyes not quite touching; antenna black, scape nearly 3X longer than pedicel, both with long setae; labrum about 1.5X longer than head height; palpus black, long, with numerous long fine setae; thorax mostly densely greyish pruinescent, scutum greyish brown, somewhat lustrous; prosternum bare, upper proepisternum in front of spiracle with several long fine setae; mesonotal setae intermixed with additional long fine setae, often hardly differentiated, 6–8 sctl; acr long, fine, 2–3-serial, presutural dc slightly longer than acr, 3–4-serial, not separated by bare space from supra-alars anteriorly; legs black, long, slender, mostly shiny to subshiny (except coxae); fore femur covered with dense, very long, fine, irregularly spread setae posteroventrally; hind femur with several anterodorsal setae on about apical half, 4–8 strong short anteroventral setae over entire femur length and some similar setae posteriorly, only pale pilose ventrally; all tibiae with rows of numerous very long strong setae dorsally, hind tibia with 1 long seta in posteroapical comb. fore and hind basitarsi with some longer setae dorsally; wing faintly brownish infuscate, CuA+CuP (anal vein) complete, entirely sclerotized, 1 long basal costal seta present, axillary incision very acute, halter brown; abdomen uniformly light grey pruinescent, denser on sternites; tergites somewhat lustrous, with very long posteromarginal setae; terminalia ( Barták 1981: 396 , fig. 17a) very similar to R . albosegmentata . Distribution. Palaearctic; Fennoscandia, Great Britain , mountains of Central Europe, northern European Russia . Species unplaced to subgenus