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

description: <i>Daspletis setithoracicus</i> (Ricardo, 1925) comb. nov. Figs 19-21 <b>Neodysmachus setithoracicus</b> Ricardo, 1925: 264-265 Redescription: Based on the type series and other material examined. Head: Antenna orange-yellowg scape and pedicel with white bristles and setae, shape similar to ìzímzs. Face brown-yellow, pro&amp;filig;le similar to <i>kiftus</i>. Mystax composed of long white bristles and setae. Vertex similar to <i>kirius</i> with lots of long white setae. Ocellarium with numerous shiny white setae (no obvious bristles). Occiput similar to /zirtus but dorso-medial bristles straight and shortish, not long and sinuous. Proboscis red-brown with white setae ventrally. Palp yellowish with white setae. Thorax: Pleura brown, strongly gold-silver pruinose, moderately well covered in white setae. Katatergite with <i>ca</i>. 30 long, thin white setae. Antepronotum with yellow-white thin bristles and white setae. Anatergite as in <i>hirtus</i>. Mesonotum similar to <i>hirius</i> and with similar setation. Dorsocentrals all yellow, moderately well developed; cluster of yellowish setae posteriorly between dorsocentrals similar to <i>hirtus</i>. 6-8 Scutellar bristles; disc with &amp;filig;ne white-yellow setae only. Halters yellowa Legs: brown-yellow and only slightly darker on upper sides of femora; bristles and setae longish yellow. Claws black with orange bases; pulvillae poorly developed, less than half as long as claws. Wings: Lectotype &amp;male; 8,2 X 2,7 mm; others range 7,9 X 2,4 - 9,5 X 3,1 mm; membrane transparent, colourless; venation orange-brown. Cell r5 widely open, m3. closed and stalked, <i>cup</i> closed on wing margin. Abdomen: Yellow terga with yellow lateral margins; sterna yellow; all segments with moderately long white setae, only tg 1 with bristles (yellow). &amp;male; genitalia as in Figs 19-21; fused gonocoxites laterally &amp;fllig;attened. &amp;female; with setae of segments 5-7 anteriorly directed. Variation: &amp;female; specimens less setose and with bristles of mystax etc. yellower than <i>&amp;male;</i>. MATERIAL Examined. SOUTH AFRICA: <i>Cape Province</i>: 2 &amp;male; 3 &amp;female; (lectotype &amp;male; and paralectotypes), Willowmore, 25. xii. 1922 (2 &amp;male;), xi. 1 9 22 (3 &amp;female;), Dr Brauns (BMNH): 15 &amp;male; 7 &amp;female;, Willowmore, various dates - 1. xii. 19 <i>07</i>, xii. 1909, 2 0. xii. 19 0 9, 15.xii. 1912, i. 1914, xi1916, 25. xii. 1 9 17, i. 1918, xi. 1918, 2 0. xii. 1 9 19, 25. xii. 1919, 1.i.1920, 2 0. xi. 192 0, 18..1922, 18.v. 1922, 3.i.1926, xi. 1 9 26, Dr Brauns (NM); 2 &amp;male; 2 &amp;female;, Meiringspoort, 3322 BC, 11-12. xii. 1979, Londt &amp; Stuckenberg, Rocky hillside &amp; stream edge (NM); 1 &amp;female;, Diepkloof ca. 20 km E. de Rust, 3322 BD, 12.xii. 1979, J. Londt &amp; B. Stuckenberg, Dry rocky hillside &amp; stream (NM). <i>Orange Free State</i>: 1&amp;male;, Bloemfontein, 31.x.1920, H. E. Irving (NM). Remarks: A species active for most of the summer (Table 1).
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 294-295, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11781
description: {"references": ["RICARDO, G. 1925. New species of Asilidae from South Africa. Annals and magazine ofnatuml history 15 (9): 234 - 282."]}