Hemipenthes nitidofasciata Portschinsky
Creators: name: Yao, Gang
name: Yang, Ding
name: Evenhuis, Neal L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bombyliidae
Hemipenthes
Hemipenthes nitidofasciata

description: Hemipenthes nitidofasciata Portschinsky
(Figs. 9, 59–64)
Anthrax nitidofasciata Portschinsky, 1892: 208. Type locality: “Asia media” [probably = Russia].
Diagnosis. Abdominal tergite 4 with white hairs. Gonocoxa with a narrow middle incision apically and apicolateral lobes somewhat acute apically; epiphallus tumid at middle and narrowing near base, distiphallus short subtriangular with an obtuse tip in dorsal view.
Description. Male. Body length 9 mm, wing length 10 mm.
Head black with brown and gray pollen; ocellar tubercle reddish brown. Hairs on head black or yellow; frons with long black hairs; face with dense black and yellow hairs; occiput with sparse black and yellow hairs, and a row of erect brown hairs on the edge; ocellar tubercle with seven long black hairs. Antenna black with gray pollen; scape long cylindrical, two times longer than wide, with rows of long black hairs on both sides; pedicel nearly as long as wide, with black hairs; first flagellomere onion-shaped, bare. Antennal ratio: 2:1:3. Proboscis brown with yellow hairs; palpus gray with black hairs.
Thorax black with gray pollen except mesonotum and scutellum with brown pollen. Hairs and bristles on thorax black; postpronotal lobe with yellow long hairs, mesonotum with row of yellow long hairs at anterior margin and four long black lateral bristles near base of wing; postalar callus with three black bristles; scutellum with long black hairs. Laterotergite with a pile of black hairs. Legs black except tibiae dark yellow. Hairs on legs black or yellow, bristles black. Femora with black hairs; tibiae with bristle-like hairs and some short yellow hairs; fore tarsus with some short yellow hairs, mid and hind tarsi with short black hairs. Mid femur with two av apically; hind femur with three av apically. Mid tibia with six ad, seven pd, seven av and six pv; hind tibia with eight ad, six pd, 6–8 av and 6–7 pv. Tibiae with yellow scales. Wing (Fig. 9) half infuscate; hyaline part including entire cell r4, most part of cell m2, part of r2+3, r5, m1, cu-a1, and dm, and little part of cells r1, cup, and a; hyaline part of cell r1 nearly semicircular; hyaline part near base of r4 very small, triangular; infuscate part with an extended part from cell m1 into cell m2 and very close to wing margin. Halteres brown; knob pale.
Abdomen black with brown pollen. Hairs on abdomen white and black; dorsum with long dense black hairs laterally except tergites 1, 4 and 6 with white hairs; tergites with a row of white hairs on the margin; dorsum with sparse black hairs except tergite 4 with dense white hairs; tergites 9–10 with short yellow hairs. Sternites with yellow recumbent hairs and black erect hairs.
Male genitalia (Figs. 59–64). Epandrium subquadrate, distinctly longer than high, and with distinct lateral extension at base in lateral view, epandrium distinctly wider than high in posterior view; gonocoxa with slightly narrow apical portion, with a narrow middle incision apically and apicolateral lobes somewhat acute apically in ventral view; gonostylus with a basal process, its acute tip strongly curved in lateral view; epiphallus tumid at middle and narrowing near base, distiphallus short subtriangular with an obtuse tip in dorsal view, distiphallus long, slightly narrowing apically in lateral view.
Female. Unknown.
Specimens examined. 2 males, CHINA: Ningxia, Helanshan National Nature Reserve, 0 3. VII. 2007, Gang Yao; 1 male, CHINA: Ningxia, Helanshan National Nature Reserve, 0 4. VII. 2007, Gang Yao; 1 male, CHINA: Inner Mongolia, Helanshan National Nature Reserve, 0 7. VII. 2007, Gang Yao; 1 male, CHINA: Ningxia, Luoshan National Nature Reserve, 13. VII. 2007, Gang Yao.
Distribution. China (Inner Mongolia, Ningxia).
description: Published as part of Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2008, Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae), pp. 1-23 in Zootaxa 1870 on pages 19-21, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945