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,
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, figs. 17;
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: 928
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<emphasis id="B921EAFECB3AAB70FF36FD3C1D2669B1" bold="true" box="[151,320,674,699]" pageId="8" pageNumber="94">Relationships.</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFC44B1DCB3AAB70FEE9FD3C1D9F69B1" author="Ackland" box="[328,505,674,699]" pageId="8" pageNumber="94" refString="Ackland, D. M. (1968) A new species of Chirosiomima Hennig (Diptera, Anthomyiidae) from Kirghizia. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 47, 652 - 655." type="journal article" year="1968">Ackland (1968)</bibRefCitation>
described a small anthomyiid fly from
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as
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<emphasis id="B921EAFECB3AAB70FBC4FD3D193369B1" box="[1125,1365,675,699]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="94">Chirosiomima collini</emphasis>
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based on some male specimens found on excrement at
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. The primary reason for referring this new species to
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was obviously the presence of a row of 46 enlarged, inclinate setae basally on the posterior lobes of sternite V, a defining character of the only species described in
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by
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. However, new evidence has proven Hennig to be wrong: these specialized setae are present in
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<emphasis id="B921EAFECB3AAB70FB99FCAD18926841" box="[1080,1268,819,843]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="94">C. obscurinervis</emphasis>
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but not in the closely related species
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<emphasis id="B921EAFECB3AAB70FE03FCC91E756864" box="[418,531,855,878]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="94">C. gestroi</emphasis>
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. The male terminalia in
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<emphasis id="B921EAFECB3AAB70FC96FCC91FC56864" box="[823,931,854,878]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="94">C. collini</emphasis>
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deviate in most respects substantially from those of
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and
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<emphasis id="B921EAFECB3AAB70FE47FCE51E346898" box="[486,594,891,914]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="94">C. gestroi</emphasis>
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, which suggests that the superficially similar chaetotaxy of sternite V in
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and
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has been attained through homoplasy. Other specialized character states that Acklands species share with
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(male head feminized; scutellum without setulae beneath tip; lower calypter reduced in size; and hind tibia with apical
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seta) are relatively trivial as they tend to develop in concert as a consequence of turning from a plesiomorphic “aerial” life habit to an apomorphic “terrestrial” one. This shift in life habit has evidently taken place repeatedly in the anthomyiid evolutionary tree. The structure of the pregonites and phallus in
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is in good agreement with the specialized state of these parts in the large, immensely diverse genus
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Lioy
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and I propose therefore, assented by D. M. Ackland (
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), the new combination
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(
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.
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: Chong Kizyl-Suu river, Terskei Plateau,
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, on excrement,
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♂,
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(Vtorov) [
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: Respublica Altai: Kosh-Agachskiy Rayon, Naryn-Gol River [
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, in marmot burrow,
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<emphasis id="B921EAFECB3AAB70FF66FAB41D3F6E49" bold="true" box="[199,345,1322,1347]" pageId="8" pageNumber="94">Description.</emphasis>
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(
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). Very small, wing length c. 2.8mm.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BEA36ECCB3AAB70FF66FAD01D0E6D10" blockId="8.[151,1437,674,2031]" pageId="8" pageNumber="94">Colour: Head, body and appendages dark brown to black, extensively covered in dark grey dusting, even on prementum. Head ochre yellow on lower half of broad frons, dusting on parafrontals and parafacials without usual silvery shine, parafacials above middle with a reflecting dark mark. Brown striping pattern faintly developed on mesonotum, especially along dorsocentral setal rows. Calypteres and halter whitish with a light brown tinge. Abdomen with a broad, poorly delimited middorsal dark stripe; tergo-sternite VII + VIII shiny black on anterolateral parts.</paragraph>
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Head (
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): Fully feminized; lower facial margin lying slightly behind fronto-parafacial angle in profile view; parafacial in middle only half as wide as postpedicel; gena in profile about as wide as postpedicel, with a single row of robust setae; frons broad, frontal vitta c. 3/5 as wide as total frontal width, with strong inner and outer vertical setae, a pair of interfrontal setae, three orbital setae and two frontal setae plus some setulae; upper occiput practically bare beneath short postoculars. Antenna short; arista pubescence distinct, but shorter than greatest basal diameter of arista. Proboscis short with small labella and normal bicuspid teeth.
</paragraph>
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Wings: Rather slender due to weakly developed anal angle. Vein C with a row of
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setulae on more than basal two-thirds, basal to costal break with slightly enlarged
<emphasis id="B921EAFECB3AAB70FD5CF8491F716CE4" box="[765,791,2007,2030]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="94">av</emphasis>
spinules. Cross-vein dmcu straight and upright.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B921EAFECB3BAB71FF36F9141D336DAA" bold="true" box="[151,341,1674,1697]" pageId="9" pageNumber="95">FIGURES 1520.</emphasis>
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, male from Altai Mts., Russia. 15. Habitus. 16. Head, dorsolateral view. 17. Sternites IIIV (and fragment of I). 1820. Sternite V in dorsal, laterodorsal and lateral views. Scale bars: 1mm (15, 16); 0.1mm (1720).
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Legs: Fore tibia with
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seta, without
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or
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setae, apically only with
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seta and longer
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seta. Mid femur with a few
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setae basally and some longish
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setae in basal half; mid tibia with 1
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and 2
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setae.
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femur with a row of robust
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setae and a few long
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setae near middle; hind tibia with 1
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seta, 3
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setae, 2
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setae, without any
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or
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setae and apically without
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seta but with short but robust
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seta.
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Abdomen (
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): Short and club-shaped with enlarged terminalia. Tergites IIIV with marginal setae weak except laterally on tergite V, without discal setae. Tergite VI exposed, bare. Sternite I setulose; sternites IIIV (
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) foreshortened, wider than long; sternite V (
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) enlarged, its basal apodeme reaching beneath three preceding sternites. Cerci and surstyli robust, relatively large compared to epandrium (
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); surstyli with subapical incision reduced, forming a tiny notch at midlength (
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, arrow); cerci apically acutely pointed and freely projected between surstyli. Hypandrium, gonites and phallic complex (
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) of the
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-
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, i.e. pregonites shallow, firmly connected to central plate of hypandrium; distiphallus very reduced.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B921EAFECB38AB72FF66FEB61D456A4A" box="[199,291,296,320]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="96">Female.</emphasis>
Unknown.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C34F6567CB38AB72FF66FED21EC16A82" pageId="10" pageNumber="96" type="distribution">
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<emphasis id="B921EAFECB38AB72FF66FED21D066A6F" bold="true" box="[199,352,332,357]" pageId="10" pageNumber="96">Distribution.</emphasis>
Central Asia. Previously known only from the
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locality in
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(
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); presently also from Respublica Altai in
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.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<emphasis id="B921EAFECB38AB72FF66FE0A1D416AA7" bold="true" box="[199,295,404,429]" pageId="10" pageNumber="96">Biology.</emphasis>
Males have been found on excrement at
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in
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(
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) and in burrows of the Altai Marmot (
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Kastschenko
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) at
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in the Altai Mts. Details about the latter locality are given by
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. These authors also document the importance of alpine marmot colonies as a habitat for muscid and fanniid
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, whether as obligate commensals exploiting marmot excrement and carcasses as food and breeding substrate, or as adventitious visitors using the burrows as shelter from harsh weather conditions. The female and immature stages are unknown, but the “terrestrial” appearance of the male fly suggests that
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belongs to the community of dipteran commensals in marmot burrows.
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