Ins Evenhuis 2020
Creators: name: Evenhuis, Neal L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bombyliidae
Ins

description: Key to Species of Ins Evenhuis in the New World
1. Patch of scales present on meron (Fig. 3); pulvilli absent; apex of parameral sheath of male genitalia without minute spicules (Figs. 23–28); distiphallus with subapical notch (e.g., Fig. 23A); ejection apparatus of female genitalia two times length of sclerotized portion of spermatheca; apical valve of ejection apparatus short, not as wide as sclerotized portion of spermatheca (e.g., Fig. 30).................................................................... Ins Evenhuis, n. gen. ... 2
-. Meron bare; pulvilli present or (rarely) absent; apex of parameral sheath with minute spicules (Fig. 29); distiphallus of male genitalia with (Old World spp.) or without (New World spp.) subapical notch (Fig. 22); ejection apparatus of female genitalia short, subequal in length to sclerotized portion of spermatheca; apical valve of ejection apparatus flat, broad, as wide as base of sclerotized portion of spermatheca (Fig. 29)................................................. Hemipenthes Loew
2. Base of wing pale brown to orange (Figs. 20, 21); scape with white hairs on mesal projection......................... 3
-. Base of wing brown to dark brown (Figs. 11–13, 15–16, 18–19); scape all black haired or admixed black and white haired... ................................................................................................... 4
3. Alula orange (Fig. 20); large sized (12–13 mm)........................................ ignea (Macquart), n. comb.
-. Alula smoky hyaline (Fig. 21); small sized (ca. 7 mm)............................... pectorcolumbo Evenhuis, n. sp.
4. Pleura and mesonotal pile all dark brown, without white to yellow hairs................. martinorum (Painter), n. comb.
-. Pleura and anterior mesonotal pile all white to yellow or admixed with darker hairs but not all dark pilose............... 5
5. Wing with anal cell virtually completely infuscated dark brown, may be hyaline at extreme tip or along posterior border (e.g., Figs. 13, 16, 19)...................................................................................... 6
-. Anal cell infuscation limited to basal half, not extending to tip of wing (e.g., Figs. 12, 18)............................ 9
6. Wing with band of infuscation subapically extending from end of R 1 posteriorly to end of wing infuscation in cells m1 and m2 (Fig. 19)......................................................................... zanouts Evenhuis, n. sp.
-. Band of infuscation from R 1 posteriorly to edge of wing not present subapically.................................... 7
7. Cell dm almost completely infuscated, only tip hyaline (Fig. 13)......................... constituta (Walker), n. comb.
-. Cell dm hyaline on apical one-third (Figs. 11, 16)............................................................ 8
8. Scutellum with brown ground color dorsolaterally, black medially and along posterior margin; apical third of parameral sheath in dorsal view half width of basal third (Fig. 27)........................(South America) ... minas (Macquart), n. comb.
-. Scutellum all black; apical third of parameral sheath in dorsal view more than half width of basal third (Fig. 23)...................................................................... (North America) ... celeris (Wiedemann), n. comb.
9. Anal cell almost all hyaline or infuscated on basal one-fourth (Fig. 12)......................... curta (Loew), n. comb.
-. Anal cell infuscated brown on basal half or more........................................................... 10
10. Infuscation in wing cell r2+3 extending almost to junction of R 4 and R 5; infuscation in radial area tending to fade to hyaline posterior portion (Fig. 18)...................................................... pleuralis (Williston), n. comb.
-. Infuscation in cell r2+3 not extending much past junction of R 2+3; infuscation in radial portion of wing dimidiate, not fading (cf. Fig. 15)..................................................................... leucocephala (Wulp), n. comb.
description: Published as part of Evenhuis, Neal L., 2020, A new genus for Painter & Painter's Villa " celer " - group in the New World (Diptera: Bombyliidae), pp. 296-314 in Zootaxa 4748 (2) on pages 299-300, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4748.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/3698809