Empis (Enoplempis) woodleyi Sinclair, Brooks & Cumming, 2025, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Sinclair, Bradley J.
name: Brooks, Scott E.
name: Cumming, Jeffrey M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Empididae
Empis
Empis woodleyi

description: Empis (Enoplempis) woodleyi sp. nov.
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(Figs 246–249)
Type material. HOLOTYPE ♂, labelled: “WASH: Yakima County / Wenas Creek Forest / Camp [46°52′N 120°48′W], 20 mi NW Selah / 25 May 1986 2550 ft. / N. E. Woodley ”; “ N.E. Woodley / Collection/ Donated 2001”; “ HOLOTYPE / Empis (Enoplempis) / woodleyi Sinclair,/ Brooks & Cumming [red label]” [dissected] (USNM).
Diagnosis. This species is distinguished from E. (En.) turgida sp. nov. by the male tergite 7 without pair of rounded, membranous lateral lobes (Fig. 246), subepandrial process very short, not extending beyond epandrium, and phallus with more than 10 teeth-like marginal projections in posterior view.
Description. Wing length 4.7 mm. Male. Similar to E. (En.) turgida sp. nov., except as follows: head with proboscis very long, at least twice as long as head height.
Thoracic setae mostly dark brown, acrostichals biserial, pale; 2 posterior npl. Laterotergite with narrow patch of pale setae.
Legs very similar to E. turgida sp. nov., but highly shrunken and twisted during preservation making comparison difficult. Apex of hind femur with preapical row of 4–5 flattened, black, short, tapered posterior setae.
Pregenital abdominal segments modified: tergite 6 with broad rectangular desclerotized area on medial posterior half; tergite 7 with anterior two-thirds thinly sclerotized medially with lateral, divergent concavity and posterior ridge; sclerites of segment 8 narrowly fused anterolaterally. Terminalia (Figs 247, 248): cercus linear, truncate apically, shorter than epandrium, somewhat concave medially; setae shorter than width of cercus. Subepandrial process very short, not reaching epandrial margin or bracing phallus. Epandrial lamella subtriangular, tapered dorsolaterally to broadly rounded apex; broadly fused with cercus anteriorly; setae longer than cercal setae, mostly concentrated along posterior margin. Hypandrium short, truncate; apical margin concave; several short setae basally. Phallus with expanded base; tapered and bent anteriorly at apex of hypandrium; posterolateral margin broadly expanded beyond hypandrium, with more than 10 teeth-like marginal projections; apex emerging beyond cercus; ejaculatory apodeme less than half-length of epandrium, T-shaped, with lateral apodemes near lower margin.
Female. Unknown.
Geographical distribution and seasonal occurrence (Fig. 249). Empis (En.) woodleyi sp. nov. is known only from the holotype collected in May from Yakima County, Washington.
Etymology. This species is named in honour of Norman E. Woodley, formerly of the United States National Museum of Natural History (USNM), who collected the holotype.
Nuptial gift presentation. Form unknown.
description: Published as part of Sinclair, Bradley J., Brooks, Scott E. & Cumming, Jeffrey M., 2025, Revision of the western Nearctic species of Empis subgenus Enoplempis (Diptera: Empididae), pp. 1-200 in Zootaxa 5615 (1) on page 126, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5615.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15217957