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

description: <i>Remotomyia</i> brunales spec. nov. Figs 40-42. Derivation: L. <i>brun</i> = brown; <i>ales</i> = winged. Refers to the brown-stained wings of this species. Description: Based primarily on holotype but supported with information from paratypes. Head: Antenna dark red-brown except for proximal half of &amp;filig;rst llagellomere which is orange-brown; ventrally expanded scape with strong white bristles ventrally; scape and pedicel with &amp;filig;ne white setae; microsegment shortish (about half length of pedicel). Face orange-brown with lower facial margin blackish; pro&amp;filig;le as for <i>albosetatus</i> (Fig. 36). Mystax composed of longish yellow-white bristles on and just above lower facial margin as well as short &amp;filig;ne white setae which extend to just below antennal bases. Vertex dull black (greasy) with red-brown stripe between antennal bases and ocellarium; lateral margins with shortish dull brown bristles. Ocellarium weakly projecting, with 6 yellow-brown bristles; median ocellus twice the diameter of lateral ocelli. Occiput blackish (greasy) with dorsal bristles short yellow-brown with dark brown apices, setae &amp;filig;ne yellow-white. Proboscis dark red-brown, stouter than that of <i>albosetatus</i>, with &amp;filig;ne white setae ventrally. Palp dark red-brown with white setae. Thorax: Pleura dark red-brown, gold pruinose (mostly greasy) &amp;filig;ne setae white. Katatergite with <i>ca</i>. 10 moderately long thin yellow-brown bristles and a few &amp;filig;ne white setae. Antepronotum with yellow-brown bristles anteriorly (do not extend to lateral extremeties or posterior parts). Anatergite with a group of &amp;filig;ne white setae laterally. Mesonotum blackish with orange-brown post-pronotal and postalar lobes; gold pruinose (mostly greasy). Post-pronotal lobes with 5 yellow-brown bristles and short tiny white setae; <i>ca</i>. 4-5 notopleural bristles, 3 supra-alars, 4.-—5 postalars, all brownyellow. Dorsocentral bristles poorly developed, con&amp;filig;ned mainly to posterior of suture although weakish bristles on anterior margin may be poorly developed dorsocentrally. Scutellum with <i>ca</i>. 10 marginal bristles; disc with tiny sparse white setae. Halters yellow-brown. Legs: red-brown, femora darker than rest; bristles short yellow-white (very short on fcmora), setae &amp;filig;ne short white. Claws robust, orange-brown with black distal half; empodium laterally compressed, robust. Wings: holotype 10,0 X 3,5 mm; membrane brown-stained, transparent; venation dark brown; cells <i>rf</i>, and <i>m</i> 3 closed and stalked, <i>cup</i> closed on wing margin. Abdomen: Dark red-brown (greasy); tg &amp;imath; with yellowish bristles laterally, all other segments with white setae only (quite well developed on posterolateral margins of terga). d‘ genitalia as in Figs 40-42 fused gonocoxites well developed, longer than paired epandrial lobes. ‘i? with y bristles on each acanthophorite; setae of tg 6 and tg 7 anteriorly directed. Variation: Negligible. MATERIAL EXAMINED. NAMIBIA: 2 &amp;male; 1 <i>&amp;female;</i> (holotype &amp;male; and paratypes), Vogelstrausskluft 87, Bethanien, SE 2717a, 24-29 ix. 1 974, H. 20536 (SMW, NM). NM type number 2656. H. 20536 is an accession number - the specimens were collected by &amp;filig;ve SMW staff members (Mokgoabone, Batista, Telje, Balt &amp; Grobler).
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 303-304, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11781