Himantigera James in James & McFadden 1982
Creators: name: Fachin, Diego Aguilar
name: Hauser, Martin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Stratiomyidae
Himantigera

description: Himantigera sp. B
(Figs 12, 24, 55, 83–85, 100–101, 118–119)
Diagnosis (male). Highly similar to males of H. amauroptera, but slightly bigger and more shining green. Lateral area of upper frons half width of medial area (Fig. 24). Abdomen elongate with apex enlarged (Fig. 55), not as strongly parallel as seen in H. amauroptera (Fig. 52).
Material examined. ♂, BOLIVIA, Prov. [Province] La Paz, Cumbre Alto Beni, vicinity of Caranavi, 1685 m, 15°40’19”S 67°29’35”W, 07–15.iv.2004, Malaise traps, S.D. Gaimari & M. Hauser (CSCA). Labeled as “Unnamed species B Fachin & Hauser 2018”.
Description. Male. Length: body, 11.0; wing, 7.0. Head (Fig. 24). Vertex and upper frons pilosity mostly black. Upper frons narrower than widest margin of frontal callus. Frontal callus margin slightly divergent towards face. Thorax. Legs mostly yellow, mid coxa proximally and hind coxa, apical half of all femora dorsally and all tibiae antero-ventrally dark brown. Wing. R 2+3 originating well beyond r–m, at a distance two times greater than length of r–m. Proximal branch of M 1+2 shorter than distal branch of M 1+2. Alula with microtrichia only along anterior half. Abdomen (Fig. 55). Elongate, widest at fourth segment; entirely dark with tergites metallic dark green, shiny green mainly on tergites 1–3 laterally; sternites quite dark, not clearly metallic green; long golden pilosity laterally on tergites 1–2; shorter dark pilosity medially on tergites 1–3; shorter white pilosity on sternites 1– 3; shorter black pilosity on 4–5 segments. Terminalia (Figs 83–85, 100–101). Genital capsule wider than long, its posterior margin less developed, not exceeding its ventral margin; medial process of synsternite weakly developed. Gonostylus three times longer than wide. Epandrium slightly wider long (Fig. 83).
Female. Unknown.
Geographic distribution. Bolivia (La Paz) (Fig. 130).
Comments. This species resembles males of Himantigera amauroptera in having the legs colored the same (i.e., dark brown marks covering part of mid coxa, hind coxa, apical half of all femora dorsally, and all tibiae antero-ventrally dark brown) and in having R 2+3 arising at a distance two times greater than length of r–m. The only differences between the two would be the shape of the abdomen, which is slightly enlarged apically in H. sp. B, and parallel-sided in H. amauroptera, and the shape of the male genital capsule, which is wider in H. sp. B than it is in H. amauroptera. Because these differences may represent intra-specific variation, we will keep this specimen unnamed until more material is available for comparison.
description: Published as part of Fachin, Diego Aguilar & Hauser, Martin, 2018, Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical genus Himantigera James, 1982 (Diptera: Stratiomyidae: Sarginae), including the description of two new species and a key to the known species, pp. 451-498 in Zootaxa 4531 (4) on page 480, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4531.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2614794