Mormotomyia Austen 1936, gen. n.
Creators: name: Austen, E. E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1936
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Mormotomyidae
Mormotomyia

description: Genus <b> <i>MORMOTOMYIA</i>,</b> <i>gen</i>. n. <i>With somewhat the appearance of a spider, or</i> of <i>a long-legged, semi-apterow</i> Scatophaga, <i>devoid of ocelli and halteres (thoughthe latter mayperhaps be represented by a pair of small sessile knobs), with exceedingly small, more or less horizontal, elliptical ovate</i> or <i>lozenge-shaped</i> eyes, <i>and</i> entirely <i>without macrochztz either on head (apartjrom slender vibrissz?),body, or legs; wings vestigial, short, rod-like, muminate, and useless for jlight.</i> * <i>C j.</i> Bezzi, " <i>Speomyia</i> absoloni, n. gen., n. sp. <b>(</b> <i>Dipt</i>. <b>),</b> eine degenerierte Hohlenfliege aus dem herzegowinisch-montenegrinischen Hochgebirge ": Zoologischer Anzeiger, xliv, Bd., Nr. 11, pp. 504 <b>-</b> 507, figs. 1 and 2, 7 July, 1914; and Atti della Societa Italiana di Sc. <i>Nat</i>. e del Museo Civic0 di Storia Naturale in Milano, vol. liii. pp. 216220, fig. 3, 1915. -) 2001. Anzeiger, <i>loc. cit.</i> p. 506, 1914. <b>$ Mormotomyia-fright.</b> fu1 fly <i> <i>(</i> poppwrba,</i> frightful; <i>puia,</i> a fly <b>).</b> <i> Head <i>(</i> cf. text-fig. 2 <b>)</b> large, equal to thorax in its greatest width, and wider than abdomen; vertical triangle extending forwards nearly to anterior margin of front (frons) and ending bluntly; jowls greatly swollen; eyes longer than deep, their horizontal diameter about twice so long as the vertical one, facets convex and relatively coarse; proboscis <i>short</i>, stout and swollen, palpi somewhat clavate; antenns with third segment small, disciform, partly overlapped a t base by extinguisher-shaped second segment, and bearing on its outer side a long, <i>fine</i>, microscopically pubescent arista.</i> <i>Abdomen</i>: hypopygium of <i> 6 <i>(</i> cf.</i> text-fig. <b>3)</b> small, with superior claspers outwardly convex, and resembling the two halves of a bivalve shell. <i> Wings <i>(</i> cf.</i> text-fig. 4 <b>)</b> consisting of vestiges of five longitudinal veins in addition to costa, squeezed together in a manner somewhat reminiscent of position of corresponding veins in wing of <i>C r a t z r</i> i <i>m pallida</i> Latr. (Diptera Pupipara: fam. Hippoboscids), but without any trace of wing-membrane, and ending in a blunt, narrow point. <i> Legs <i>(</i> cf.</i> text-figs. I and <i> 5 <i>)</i> very long; claws large, slender and strongly curved, with, a t base on under side, a downwardly directed, tooth-like process, especially noticeable in case of hind pair; middle and hind claws nearly parallel to longitudinal axis of leg and not a t right angles to it; pulvilli long and narrow, pointed a t tips, with a row of hairs along edges of under side; empodium present, slender and styliform, pointed a t tip; near distal extremity of last tarsal segment, on upper side, a long, downwardly curved hair.</i> Genotype: <i>Mormotomyia hirsuta,</i> sp. n.
description: Published as part of <i>Austen, E. E., 1936, A Remarkable Semi-Apterous Fly (Diptera) found in a Cave in East Africa, and representing a new Family, Genus, and Species., pp. 425-431 in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 106 (2)</i> on pages 426-428, DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1936.tb08510.x, http://zenodo.org/record/3752959