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<emphasis id="749EE547FFA8881CAE241D3EFE13B009" box="[264,489,804,827]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Mythicomyia ostenta</emphasis>
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: 236
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: 417
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: 269
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: 483
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<emphasis id="749EE547FFA8881CAE241D7EFD7AB049" box="[264,640,868,891]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Mythicomyia (Mythenteles) ostenta</emphasis>
Melander.
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: 339
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. Length:
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. Eyes dichoptic; ocelli nearly in a straight line; lateral ocellus 1.5 its diameter from inner eye margin; frons slightly longer than wide, depressed medially, yellow from level of median ocellus to antennae, with medial black spot; upper 1/2 of front with dark hair; antenna black, scape minute; pedicel slightly wider than long; first flagellomere short, ovoid, broadest at or slightly beyond middle, slightly longer than wide; length of second flagellomere equal to width of first flagellomere; face black, narrowly yellow beneath antennae; proboscis black, projecting beyond oral margin for distance much greater than head height; occiput black above with yellow triangular spot medially behind ocellar tubercle, yellow laterally at posterior eye margin, noticeably swollen, with sparse black hairs.
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<emphasis id="749EE547FFA8881CAE141B26FE76B667" box="[312,396,1340,1365]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Thorax</emphasis>
. Mesonotum dull black with yellow vittae; humeral callus, interhumeral triangular mark, lateral margin (broad and deeply incised behind prealar suture), postalar callus, narrow admedian vitta, and prescutellar area yellow; black color of mesonotum reaching base of scutellum laterally; dorsum of mesonotum with scattered black hairs; scutellum yellow with scattered dark hairs; pleura black, anepisternum with upper portion yellow; medial longitudinal yellow stripe present; coxae and legs yellow, femora dark brown to black on basal two­thirds; apical tarsal segments black; halter with stem and knob yellow to whitish.
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<emphasis id="749EE547FFA8881CAE141866FE88B5A7" box="[312,370,1660,1685]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Wing</emphasis>
. Hyaline; veins brown; costa ending at midpoint between end of veins R4+5 and M1; vein R2+3 arising at nearly 90°; cell dm narrowed apically; vein at base of cell m1 shorter than r­m crossvein.
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<emphasis id="749EE547FFA8881CAE1418E6FE5CB427" box="[312,422,1788,1813]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Abdomen</emphasis>
. Dorsum brownish yellow; tergites III­VI with narrow yellow to yellowish white fasciae on posterior margin of each segment; tergites I and II darker brown than succeeding tergites; dorsum with scattered yellowish hairs; venter yellow.
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<emphasis id="749EE547FFA9881DAE141F06FE5CB207" box="[312,422,284,309]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Genitalia</emphasis>
(
<figureCitation id="DED125D0FFA9881DAE941F06FDEAB204" box="[440,528,284,310]" captionStart="FIGURES 12 ­ 13" captionStartId="14.[264,383,1364,1388]" captionTargetBox="[463,1124,441,1341]" captionTargetId="figure@14.[463,1129,439,1346]" captionTargetPageId="14" captionText="FIGURES 12 ­ 13. Pieza male genitalia. 12. P. m i n u t a (Greene); a. lateral view; b. epiphallic complex, dorsal view; c. gonocoxites, ventral view. 13. P. ostenta (Melander); a. lateral view; b. epiphallic complex, dorsal view; c. gonocoxites, dorsal view." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/156137/files/figure.png" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Fig. 13</figureCitation>
). In lateral view with gonocoxite subquadrate­subtriangular; gonostyli not evident, with paired anteroventral curved structures; gonocoxal apodemes narrow caudally, flaring dramatically to broad, rounded triangular apex; aedeagus with broad, onion­shaped bulb basally, leading to long, thin aedeagal tip; aedeagal apodeme large, axeshaped, with small, thin lateral vanes; lateral rami corsair wing­shaped, slightly broadened distally in ventral view; epandrium elongate triangular, pseudo­surstylus incurved, not evident in lateral view; cercus reniform, slightly exserted.
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<emphasis id="749EE547FFA9881DAE241BE4FE39B524" bold="true" box="[264,451,1534,1558]" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">FIGURES 17­19</emphasis>
.
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female genitalia. 17.
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(Melander). 18.
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<emphasis id="749EE547FFA9881DAB231BE4FBADB527" box="[1039,1111,1534,1557]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">P. rhea</emphasis>
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,
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19.
<emphasis id="749EE547FFA9881DABC51BE4FEB8B50A" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="18">P. s i n ­ clairi</emphasis>
, sp. nov.
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Female as in male except as follows: genitalia (
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) with vaginal furca shield­like, V­shaped, entirely sclerotized as a plate, with additional posterior bridge connecting long, thin lateral processes, medial process about one­third length of lateral processes; apical process well developed, subtriangular; spermathecal reservoir as in
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, but basal membranous area tapering to apical duct shorter than in
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; apical duct relatively short, membranous, length about 1.5 length of reservoir; sperm pump fused basally; apical valve enlarged into glove­like membranous structure, median sperm pump shorter than lateral ones, with apical valve approximately 2 size of lateral ones; basal spermathecal duct and valve not evident; common duct strongly sclerotized.
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<emphasis id="749EE547FFAA881EAE141F8EFE82B29F" box="[312,376,404,429]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Types</emphasis>
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.
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female from
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<emphasis id="749EE547FFAA881EAD9B1F89FC5FB29F" bold="true" box="[695,933,403,429]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">UNITED STATES</emphasis>
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: California: Riverside County: Whitewater,
<date id="32541F95FFAA881EAEB31FA6FDDBB2E4" box="[415,545,444,470]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" value="1955-03-29">29.iii.1955</date>
, A.L. Melander, in
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.
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examined during this study. The orangeish color of the humeral callus and postalar calli in the
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is not natural, but instead due to a hypercyanic condition.
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<emphasis id="749EE547FFAA881EAE141C2EFE64B17F" box="[312,414,564,589]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Remarks</emphasis>
.
<bibRefCitation id="227B44A4FFAA881EAE831C2EFD1BB17C" author="Hall" box="[431,737,564,590]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" refString="Hall, J. C. &amp; Evenhuis, N. L. (1986) Family Bombyliidae. In: Griffiths, G. C. D. (Ed.) Flies of the Nearctic Region. Vol. V, Part 13, No. 5. E. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart. p. 321 - 592" type="book chapter" year="1986">Hall and Evenhuis (1986)</bibRefCitation>
recorded variation in the small yellow triangular spot behind the ocellar tubercle from present, to vague, to absent; reexamination of a long series of this and related species shows that the yellow occipital spot is always present in
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<emphasis id="749EE547FFAA881EAE241CB6FEA6B1F7" box="[264,348,684,709]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">ostenta</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
; those specimens in which it is absent belong to other species. The mesonotal vittae can vary from thick to thin and almost incomplete between the interhumeral marks and the prescutellar area, but the latter case is very uncommon in the long series of specimens studied. The characters in the key should serve to distinguish virtually all of the specimens known thus far. Specimens have been collected between
<date id="32541F95FFAA881EAC981D56FB5DB054" box="[948,1191,844,870]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">5 April and 23 June</date>
, with most collected in late April and the middle of May.
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</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="0EF06ADEFFAA881EAE141D86FB77B74C" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="46553955FFAA881EAE141D86FB77B74C" blockId="18.[264,1324,284,1150]" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">
<emphasis id="749EE547FFAA881EAE141D86FE3DB087" box="[312,455,924,949]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Distribution</emphasis>
. Previously known from California, Arizona, and Texas (
<bibRefCitation id="227B44A4FFAA881EAB591D86FE7AB0EC" author="Hall" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" refString="Hall, J. C. &amp; Evenhuis, N. L. (1986) Family Bombyliidae. In: Griffiths, G. C. D. (Ed.) Flies of the Nearctic Region. Vol. V, Part 13, No. 5. E. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart. p. 321 - 592" type="book chapter" year="1986">Hall and Evenhuis 1986</bibRefCitation>
). The following additional localities can be added to that distribution:
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:
<emphasis id="749EE547FFAA881EAE531DF6FE15B737" box="[383,495,1004,1029]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Colorado</emphasis>
: Walden.
<emphasis id="749EE547FFAA881EAD461DF6FD5FB737" box="[618,677,1004,1029]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Utah</emphasis>
: San Juan County: Abajo Mountains.
<collectingCountry id="3EFD79C5FFAA881EAB431DF6FB12B734" box="[1135,1256,1004,1030]" name="Mexico" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">MEXICO</collectingCountry>
:
<emphasis id="749EE547FFAA881EABDF1DF6FE4FB71F" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Baja California Sur</emphasis>
:
<quantity id="811294B0FFAA881EAEE41A0EFDEEB71C" box="[456,532,1044,1070]" metricMagnitude="4" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.3" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" unit="km" value="13.0">13 km</quantity>
S. Guillermo Prieto;
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WNW San Isidro;
<quantity id="811294B0FFAA881EAB721A0EFB51B71C" box="[1118,1195,1044,1070]" metricMagnitude="4" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.3" pageId="18" pageNumber="19" unit="km" value="13.0">13 km</quantity>
WNW La Purisima.
<emphasis id="749EE547FFAA881EAE531A26FE2EB767" box="[383,468,1084,1109]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Sonora</emphasis>
: Ciudad Obregon. Further concentrated collecting may show it to also be found in New
<collectingCountry id="3EFD79C5FFAA881EAE9D1A7EFDF4B74C" box="[433,526,1124,1150]" name="Mexico" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Mexico</collectingCountry>
, Nevada, and possibly Chihuahua in northern
<collectingCountry id="3EFD79C5FFAA881EAB071A7EFB73B74C" box="[1067,1161,1124,1150]" name="Mexico" pageId="18" pageNumber="19">Mexico</collectingCountry>
.
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