Bicellaria femorata Collin
Creators: name: Barták, Miroslav
name: Plant, Adrian
name: Kubík, Štěpán
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Hybotidae
Bicellaria
Bicellaria femorata

description: Bicellaria femorata Collin
(Figs 7, 8)
Bicellaria femorata Collin, 1960: 392.
Identification of syntypes. Bicellaria femorata was described from five specimens: “a male labelled “Jerusalem [=Yerushalayim], O. Theodor”, and a female “Ginegar, Gallilee, 10.xi. [sic!]34. O. Theodor”. Also two females from “B. Alta [= Bet Alfa], 16.i.40, Dr. A. Shulov”, and one from “Judean Hills, 1.ii.31. O. Theodore” [sic!]”. All the above specimens are present in TAU: 1 male labelled “Jerusalem Palestine [=Yerushalayim] O. Theodor / COM. INST. ENT. COLL. No. 12611 / ♂ TYPE / B. femorata det. Coll. 58”, 1 female labelled “G 10 1 / Ginegar Galilee Palestine O. Theodor 10.ii.34 / COM. INST. ENT. COLL. No. 12611 / B. femorata det. Coll. 58”, 1 female labelled “B. Alfa 16.i.40 / 135 / Palestine Dr. A. Shulov / B. femorata det. Coll. 56 / Bicellaria femorata n. sp. ”, 1 female labelled “B. Alfa [=Bet Alfa] 16.i.40 / 133 / Palestine Dr. A. Shulov / B. femorata det. Coll. 56”, and one female labelled “BK VIII 34 / Kir. Anavim [=Qiryat 'Anavim] Judean Hills Palestine O. Theodor 1.2.31 / COM. INST. ENT. COLL. No. 12611 / ♀ TYPE / B. femorata det. Coll. 58”. We consider all above mentioned specimens syntypes in spite of small difference in date of the female from Ginegar and they were provided by red labels “ Syntype Bicellaria femorata rev. Barták 2013”. Moreover, in TAU there are another two specimens collected before 1960: 1 female without locality labelled “ 11.i.22 / 5.i.22 / 212” and another female labelled “C J VIII 30 / Jerusalem Palestine [=Yerushalayim] O. Theodor 5.i.36 ” and another 5 females labelled “Jerusalem Palestine [=Yerushalayim] O. Theodor” which were probably also collected before 1960. These are neither provided with circular handwritten Collin´s identification labels nor listed in the original description. For this reason we identified and labelled as syntypes of both Collin´s species (B. femorata and B. spuria ingrata) only specimens provided by the above mentioned circular label (see also under B. ingrata).
Diagnosis. The species has unique combination of several features: palpus with many setae, halter yellow, mesoscutum with stripes, hind femur spinose, male phallic hooks curiously shaped (Fig. 8). It may be easily identified according to the key.
Additional material examined (13♂, 34♀). Israel: 2♂, 9♀, 2 exx, Horvat Nappah, 10.xii.1973, A. Freidberg—(TAU); 3♀, same data—(CULSP); 5♂, 8♀, same locality, 20.xii.1973, A. Freidberg—(TAU); 2♂, same data—(CULSP); 1♂, 1♀, same locality, 1.i.1974, A. Freidberg; 1♂, Upper part of Nahal Tirza, 20.ii.1974, A. Freidberg; 1♂, Kesalon, 10.ii.1973, M. Kaplan; 1♀, Shelomi, 8.i.1975, F. Kaplan; 1♀, Rosh ha'Ayin, 31.xii.1986, Y. Nussbaum—(TAU); 1♂, same data—(CULSP); 1♀, Nahal 'Ammud, 23.ii.1983, I. Yarom; 1♀, 'Ofra, 29.i.1987; 1♀, Nahal Rabba, 20.xii.1981; 1♀, sine loc. (“212” and “ 11.i.22 ” and “ 5.i.22 ”); 6♀, Jerusalem, Palestine—(TAU); 1♀, Carmel, 14.ii.1976, A. Freidberg—(CULSP).
Distribution. Israel.
Remarks. This species was described in full detail by Collin (1960). Bicellaria femorata is included in the B. austriaca -complex of species as defined by Chvála (1991), but differs in having a pale halter, long setose hypandrium and swollen and spinose hind femur.
description: Published as part of Barták, Miroslav, Plant, Adrian & Kubík, Štěpán, 2013, Species of Bicellaria (Diptera: Hybotidae) from Asia, pp. 233-256 in Zootaxa 3710 (3) on pages 238-239, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3710.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/223129