Remotomyia albosetatus Londt 1983, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Londt, Jason G. H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1983
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Asilidae
Remotomyia
Remotomyia albosetatus

description: <i>Remotomyia albosetatus</i> (Hull, 1967), comb. nov. Figs 35-39 <b>Daspletis albosetatus</b> Hull, 1967: 240-241 Redescription: Based primarily on Õ listed below. Head: (Fig. 36): Antenna (Fig. 35) dark brown but &amp;filig;rst flagellomere orangebrown with yellow-brown basal part; microsegmerit well developed, almost as long as pedicel with terminal pit enclosing a small spine (seta); scape twice as long as pedicel, ventrally expanded and equipped with a good cluster of white bristles and setae; ped~ icel quite small with only a few small white setae. Face red-brown, entirely silver pruinose; lower facial margin projecting forward but not in the same way as in <i>Daspšeášs</i> species. Mystax composed of white bristles and setae; bristles about as long as antennae 0n lower facial margin but progressively decrease in length higher up face; setae extend to just below antennal bases. Vertex dark red-brown; silver-gold pruinose, equipped with yellowish bristles and white setae. Ocellarium not very prominent but with 6 strong yellow bristles. Occiput dark red-brown; silver-gold pruinose, equipped with shortish yellow-white bristles and white setae (bristles behind ocellarium not long and sinuous as in <i>Dasplelís</i>). Proboscis dark red-brown with a few thin yellowish-white setae ventrally. Palp dark red-brown, shorter than half length of proboscis, equipped with few &amp;filig;ne yellowish setae. Thorax: Pleura blackish; gold pruinose except for a shiny patch involving most of anepisternum; bristles and setae white. Katatergite with about 7 shortish white bristles and a few white setae. Antepronotum with white setae and yellow-white bristles (none of which are found on lateral extremeties). Anatergite with a cluster of &amp;filig;ne white setae. Mesonotum dark red-brown, postpronotal lobes orange, patches of silver and gold pruinescence. Postpronotal lobes with <i>ca</i>. 7 yellow-white bristles and tiny white setae; 4-5 notopleural bristles (I or 2 anteriorly, 3 posteriorly), 2-3 supra-alars, 5-6 postalars, all brown-yellow. Dorsocentral bristles yellowish well developed, extending anterior of transverse suture to anterior margin of mesonotum. Scutellurn with <i>m</i>. 8 yellowish marginal bristles; disc with a few scattered short white setae. Halters brown-yellow. Legs: red-brown with short white bristles and setae. Claws orange with distal third blackish. Wings: d 8,5 X 2,8 mm, S? 8,1 X 2,6 mm. Membrane colourless and transparent in both sexes. Venation orange and dark brown. Cells r5, <i>m</i> 3 and <i>step</i> closed and stalked. Abdomen: Segment dark red-brown, gold pruinose. Targa with white bristles and setae concentrated mainly on posterolateral parts. ó genitalia as in Figs 37-39. Fused gonocoxites poorly developed, with a few long white setae at apex. Variation: Minimal sexual dimorphism. MATERIAL EXAMINED. NAMIBIA: 1 &amp;male;, Oshikango, C. Koch (NM); 1 &amp;female;, Kavango, Bagani (<b>SE</b> 1821a), 31viii1971, H3954 (SMW). Previously recorded ma - terial: Hull's &amp;female; holotype was from NAMIBIA: Kaokoveld, Sanitatos, about 85 mi. WSW Ohopoho (&amp;imath; 8 &amp;imath;3 <b>BB</b>), 1 4-1 6. vi. <i>19</i> 5 1, Brink &amp; Rudebeck. I have not seen this specimen. Remarks: Collected in April and August (Table 1) this may be a winter active species.
description: Published as part of <i>Londt, Jason G. H., 1983, The Genus Daspletis Loew, 1858 And The Description Of Two New Genera, Anasillomos And Remotomyia (Diptera: Asilidae: Stenopogoninae), pp. 283-308 in Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 46 (2)</i> on pages 301-303, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11781
description: {"references": ["Hull 1967. Diptera (Brachyccra) Asilidae. South African Animal Life 13: 234 - 283."]}