Rhamphomyia (Rhamphomyia) morio (Zetterstedt)
- Dataset
- The empidoid flies (Diptera: Empidoidea, exclusive of Dolichopodidae) of the Russian Arctic islands and Svalbard Archipelago
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Chironomidae
- genus
- Rhamphomyia
- species
- Rhamphomyia morio
description
(Fig. 55)
description
2007: 185 (catalogue); Shamshev, 2016: 78 (checklist).
distribution
Distribution. Palaearctic; Fennoscandia, Great Britain, mountains of Central Europe, northern European Russia. Species unplaced to subgenus
materials_examined
Material examined. RUSSIA. Murmanskaya Prov. (Kildin Island): 13. vii. 1908, L. Bianki (1 ♂, ZIN). 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 3 X longer than pedicel, both with long setae; labrum about 1.5 X 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. 17 a) very similar to R. albosegmentata.