Hemipenthes maura Linnaeus
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 maura

description: Hemipenthes maura Linnaeus
(Figs. 6, 41–46)
Musca maura Linnaeus, 1758: 590. Type locality: “Europa”.
Musca denigrata Linnaeus, 1767: 981. Type locality: “Europa”.
Nemotelvs nonvs Schaeffer, 1768: 76. [Unavailable; name proposed in a non-binominal work.]. Musca hirsuta Villers, 1789: 427. Type locality: “ Gallia ” [= France].
Anthrax daemon Panzer, 1797: 17. Type locality: Germany.
Anthrax bifasciata Meigen, 1804: 209. Type locality: “Südrussland?”.
Anthrax relata Walker, 1852: 191. Type locality: Not given [= Palaearctic].
Anthrax uncinus Loew, 1869b: 171. Type locality: “nordöstliche Russland bis nach Sibirien” [= Russia (ES)]. Hemipenthes maurus var. flavotomentosa Paramonov, 1927: 160, 168. Type locality: Ukraine.
Diagnosis. Cell r4 entirely hyaline, hyaline part of cell r1 nearly semicircular; hyaline apical part of cell a very small, subtriangular. Postalar callus with three black bristles. Epiphallus slightly constricted at middle; distiphallus narrow and long, subtriangular in dorsal view.
Description. Male. Body length 9 mm, wing length 9 mm.
Head black with grey pollen; ocellar tubercle reddish. Hairs on head mostly black; frons with long erect black hairs; face with dense long black hairs; occiput with sparse black hairs, and a row of erect brown hairs on the edge; ocellar tubercle with two black hairs. Antenna black; scape long cylindrical, two times longer than wide, with rows of long, black hairs on both sides; pedicel nearly as long as wide, with sparse black hairs; first flagellomere onion-shaped, bare. Antennal ratio: 2:1:3. Proboscis brown with yellow hairs; palpus yellowish brown with long black hairs.
Thorax black with brown pollen. Hairs on thorax mostly yellow, bristles on thorax black; hairs on postpronotal lobe yellow or black, mesonotum with row of long, yellow and black hairs along anterior margin and three long black lateral bristles near base of wing; laterotergite with a pile of yellowish hairs; postalar callus with three black bristles. Scutellum with sparse long black hairs. Legs brown except tarsi black. Hairs on legs mostly black, bristles black. Femora with long black hairs; tibiae with short black hairs; tarsi with some short black hairs. Mid femur with two av apically; hind femur with three av apically. Mid tibia with six ad, eight pd, six av and eight pv; hind tibia with nine ad, eight pd, eight av and 12 pv. Wing (Fig. 6) half infuscate; hyaline part including entire cell r4, most part of cells r2+3, r5, m1, m2, dm, and cu-a1, and little part of cells r1, cup and a; hyaline part of cell r1 nearly semicircular; hyaline apical part of cell a very small, subtriangular. Halteres brown; knob pale.
Abdomen black with brown pollen. Hairs on abdomen yellowish and black; dorsum with long dense black hairs laterally except tergites 1 and 4; dorsum with short black recumbent hairs, tergite 5 with a small midposterior area bare; tergite 8 with yellowish hairs, tergites 9–10 with black hairs. Sternites with recumbent yellow hairs and erect black hairs.
Male genitalia (Figs. 41–46). Epandrium subquadrate, nearly twice longer than high, and with distinct lateral extension at base in lateral view, epandrium nearly as wide as high in posterior view; gonocoxite narrowing posteriorly, with a rather narrow middle incision apically and apicolateral lobes somewhat acute apically in ventral view; gonostylus with a basal process, its acute tip curved in lateral view; epiphallus slightly constricted at middle, distiphallus narrow and long, subtriangular in dorsal view, slightly narrowing apically.
Female. Unknown.
Specimens examined. 1 male, CHINA: Beijing, Wulingshan, 4. X. 2006, Gang Yao; 1 male, CHINA: Beijing, Wulingshan, 24. VII. 2007, Kuiyan Zhang.
Distribution. China (Beijing, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang).
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 13-15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945