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AD
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Body length
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Face weakly concave and weakly projected anteroventrally; frontal prominence very weakly developed (similar to Fig. 1E). Width of vertex at anterior ocellus:width of head 1:4.1; depth of occipital concavity ca. 1/10 of the width of an eye in dorsal view. Width of face:width of head 1:5.0. Face black, pale pollinose. Gena shiny black. Frons and vertex semi-shiny black, lunula brownish, posterior to lunula with indistinct pale pollinosity, the pile short, infrequent, erect and pale. Occiput dull black. Eyes along face with area of enlarged facets. Antenna brown; basoflagellomere oval, baso-ventrally reddish, ratio of length:width 1:0.8; arista almost bare.
<emphasis id="B93D205FFFADFFA7FD9AD22966CCFEC7" bold="true" box="[636,732,295,320]" pageId="45" pageNumber="46">Thorax.</emphasis>
Colour black, mostly pale pollinose, all the pile very short, infrequent, adpressed and pale; scutellum trapezoidal, shiny dorsally, with a pair of pale, thin, well separated setae at apical margin.
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Hyaline, stigma brownish.
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Pro- and mesoleg yellow, tarsomeres 4 and 5 black. Metaleg: coxa brown; trochanter simple, yellow; femur yellow, the apical 1/6 and a broad annulus on the basal 1/2 brown; tibia without apico-ventral tooth, yellow except the apical 1/4 black and brownish annulus on the basal 1/2 medially; tarsus dark brown.
<emphasis id="B93D205FFFADFFA7FE38D2D2664AFE72" bold="true" box="[478,602,476,501]" pageId="45" pageNumber="46">Abdomen.</emphasis>
Length ratio of tergites I, II,
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:2.7:1.5:1.1. Tergites shiny black, tergite III with a yellow subanterior fascia, nearly 1/2 as wide as the length of tergite; the pile of tergites pale, very short, adpressed, becoming longer towards the lateral margin; tergite I with an oblique row of 4 pale setae laterally; sternite IV (
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A, D) brown anteriorly and brownish posteriorly, with short pale pile, the sword-like lobe on the left side pale yellowish; sternite VI (
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A, D) with a very small tubercle at the posterior margin, black, the pile dense, pale, adpressed; sternites VII and VIII black, the pile short and pale.
<emphasis id="B93D205FFFADFFA7FBFED181609DFD2F" bold="true" box="[1048,1165,655,680]" pageId="45" pageNumber="46">Genitalia,</emphasis>
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B, C. Note the slightly asymmetrical surstyli and the enlarged cercus. The superior lobes are symmetrical.
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Unknown.
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material.
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. ♂, N.E.
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, Kambaiti,
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,
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, R.
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(
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).
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.
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with same data as
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except
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.,
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12.
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</date>
and
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Dsbg
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det. v. Doesburg (
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).
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<emphasis id="B93D205FFFADFFA7FF21D04A655EFCDA" bold="true" box="[199,334,836,861]" pageId="45" pageNumber="46">Etymology.</emphasis>
The name is from Latin,
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<emphasis id="B93D205FFFADFFA7FD90D04A66F6FCDB" box="[630,742,836,860]" italics="true" pageId="45" pageNumber="46">cultrigera</emphasis>
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, bearing a knife, referring to the knife-like lobe on the male sternite IV.
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<emphasis id="B93D205FFFADFFA7FF21D082655CFC22" bold="true" box="[199,332,908,933]" pageId="45" pageNumber="46">Discussion.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B93D205FFFADFFA7FEB3D0826627FC23" box="[341,567,908,932]" italics="true" pageId="45" pageNumber="46">Sphegina cultrigera</emphasis>
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is similar to
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<emphasis id="B93D205FFFADFFA7FD33D082674EFC23" box="[725,862,908,932]" italics="true" pageId="45" pageNumber="46">S. siculifera</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="B93D205FFFADFFA7FC88D08267F7FC23" box="[878,999,908,932]" italics="true" pageId="45" pageNumber="46">S. ensifera</emphasis>
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, and
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<emphasis id="B93D205FFFADFFA7FBCDD08260ACFC23" box="[1067,1212,908,932]" italics="true" pageId="45" pageNumber="46">S. philippina</emphasis>
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. These species differ from all other
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by having a long sword-like lobe postero-laterally on the left side of the male sternite IV. The distinguishing characters between the first three species are discussed under
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<emphasis id="B93D205FFFADFFA7FAF3D0DA618CFC6B" box="[1301,1436,980,1004]" italics="true" pageId="45" pageNumber="46">S. siculifera</emphasis>
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below.
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<emphasis id="B93D205FFFADFFA7FF0CD0F6656BFB97" box="[234,379,1016,1040]" italics="true" pageId="45" pageNumber="46">S. philippina</emphasis>
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differs distinctly from all other species similar to
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<emphasis id="B93D205FFFADFFA7FC58D0F6605CFB97" box="[958,1100,1016,1040]" italics="true" pageId="45" pageNumber="46">S. cultrigera</emphasis>
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by male genitalia with small cerci and strongly asymmetric surstyli as well as by having its metatibia produced into a spur apicoventrally and the metafemur lacking a subapical paler annulus.
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<emphasis id="B93D205FFFADFFA7FF71D786651AFB18" bold="true" box="[151,266,1160,1183]" pageId="45" pageNumber="46">TABLE 1.</emphasis>
Differences between
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,
<taxonomicName id="4C4987CEFFADFFA7FC6ED789603EFB18" box="[904,1070,1159,1183]" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Sphegina" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="45" pageNumber="46" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ensifera" subGenus="Asiosphegina">S. (A.) ensifera</taxonomicName>
, S. (A).
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,
<taxonomicName id="4C4987CEFFADFFA7FB3ED789616CFB18" box="[1240,1404,1159,1183]" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Sphegina" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="45" pageNumber="46" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="parvula" subGenus="Asiosphegina">S. (A.) parvula</taxonomicName>
,
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,
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and
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.
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<taxonomicName id="4C4987CEFFADFFA7FE66D7D465F5FB77" box="[384,485,1242,1264]" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Sphegina" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="45" pageNumber="46" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cultrigera">cultrigera</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicName id="4C4987CEFFADFFA7FDC8D7D46690FB77" box="[558,640,1242,1264]" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Sphegina" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="45" pageNumber="46" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ensifera">ensifera</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicName id="4C4987CEFFADFFA7FD5FD7D46709FB77" box="[697,793,1242,1264]" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Sphegina" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="45" pageNumber="46" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="siculifera">siculifera</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicName id="4C4987CEFFADFFA7FCA9D7D467BFFB77" box="[847,943,1242,1264]" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Sphegina" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="45" pageNumber="46" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sinesmila">sinesmila</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicName id="4C4987CEFFADFFA7FC0ED7D5603EFB77" box="[1000,1070,1243,1264]" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Sphegina" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="45" pageNumber="46" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="minuta">minuta</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicName id="4C4987CEFFADFFA7FB9BD7D460DCFB77" box="[1149,1228,1242,1264]" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Sphegina" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="45" pageNumber="46" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="parvula">parvula</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicName id="4C4987CEFFADFFA7FAE8D7D46143FB77" authority="Colour" authorityName="Colour" box="[1294,1363,1242,1264]" class="Insecta" family="Syrphidae" genus="Sphegina" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="45" pageNumber="46" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="pusilla">pusilla</taxonomicName>
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Colour of gena black brown brown brown light-brown light-brown brown
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