The Canacidae of the Arabian Peninsula (Diptera: Brachycera: Carnoidea)
Author
Munari, Lorenzo
text
Zootaxa
2016
4092
4
489
517
journal article
51564
10.11646/zootaxa.4092.4.2
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Xanthocanace hamifer
Munari, 2008
(figs. 4‒5)
Xanthocanace hamifer
Munari, 2008b: 40
[
United Arab Emirates
. Qurrayah; HT ♂, NMWC].
Distribution.
Afrotropical
:
United Arab Emirates
.
Remarks.
A very distinctive species, especially in the structure of the male terminalia. Externally, it is strongly similar to
X. zeylanica
Delfinado, 1975
, in particular for the thinly microtomentose, subshiny mesonotum. However, it consistently differs from Delfinado’s species mainly by the yellowish face, the proximal segments of the arista noticeably elongated and thickened, sausage-shaped, reddish brown (distal segment very thin and pale, hairlike), and for having a very peculiar surstylus, which shows a long, subapical, hooked process in both lateral and posterior views (figs. 4‒5).