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

description: <b>Mormotomyia hirsuta,</b> sp. n. (Text-figs. 1-5.) &amp;male;.- <i>Length</i> (two specimens) 7.5 to 8 mm.; width of head 1.6 mm.; length.of eye just over 0.5 mm.; length of wing <i>2.5</i> mm.; approximate length of hind leg 15 to 15.5 mm. <i>Head, thorax, wings, and legs raw-sienna-coloured, abdomen somewhat darker (Dresden brown)</i> *, <i>entire insect (head,body, wings, and</i> legs <i>),except</i> tarsi, <i>densely clothed with long and exceedingly</i> f i <i>n e, ochraceous-buff or ochraceous-orange hair, which in places i s somewhat darker.</i> <i>He&amp;</i> (text-fig. <i> 2 <i>)</i> somewhat square in profile, with <i>basioccipital</i> region rounded off, and epistoma and facial angles prominent, latter blunt a t tips, and clothed with fine, long and upwardly curved, dark brown vibrisss; vertical triangle swollen and markedly convex, with its lateral margins sharply defined; erect hair clothing anterior extremity of vertical triangle, like that on a longitudinal, eyebrow-like ridge above and in front of each eye, and like hair above</i> <i>Thorax</i>: scutellum short, convex above; hair on scutellum and on upper surface of posterior half of scutum sometimes dark brown. <i>Abdomen</i>: hypopygium of d as described in diagnosis of genus and shown in text-fig. 3. * For names and illustrations of colours used for descriptive pyposes in the present paper see Ridgway, ' Color Standards and Color Nomenclature (Washington, D.C. Published by the author, 1912). <i>Wings</i> as described in generic diagnosis and shown in text-fig. 1 and <b>4.</b> <i>Legs</i> (text-figs. 1 and 5): extreme tips of femora, a t least middle and hind pairs, narrowly mummy-brown above, tips of all tibiae mummy-brown below, those of hind pair on out, <i>er</i> side with a row of six short, curved, black spines; first segment of front tarsi clothed below with short mummy-brown or golden-brown hair, longer and more conspicuous a t base; first segment of middle tarsi excavated below in such a way that its base and tip are prominent, while former is clothed with short, stiff, blackish hairs; first segment of hind tarsi a little longer than second and third segments taken together, narrow and tapering, and clothed below with short, stiff, mummy-brown hairs, which are longer a t base of segment, and in certain lights have an ochraceous-buff or golden sheen; tips of all segments of hind tarsi mummy-brown. East Africa, Kenya Colony. Holotype <i>3</i> and one paratype, Garissa District, Ukazzi, v. 1933 <i> (22. B. Sharpe, 1 <i>).</i> C</i> .: in coll. British Museum (Natural <i>History</i>),presented by the Imperial Institute of Entomology), taken in a cave inhabited by bats and swifts. When the collector entered the cave a number of these extraordinary insects ‘‘ came floating down from above like feathers. ”
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 429-430, DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1936.tb08510.x, http://zenodo.org/record/3752959