Hemyda hertingi Ziegler & Shima 1996
Creators: name: Wang, Qiang
name: Zhang, Chuntian
name: Wang, Xinhua
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tachinidae
Hemyda
Hemyda hertingi

description: Hemyda hertingi Ziegler & Shima, 1996
(Figs. 25−36, 69−72)
Hemyda hertingi Ziegler & Shima, 1996: 462. Holotype ♂ (DEI). Type locality: Russia, Primorskiy Kray, Ussuriysky Zapovednik, 33km southeast of Ussuriysk.
References. O’Hara et al. 2009: 128.
Diagnosis. Male (Figs. 25−29, 69−72) and female (Figs. 30−36). Body length: 8.0−10.0 mm. Eye kidney-shaped, hind margin slightly indented; vertex 0.25−0.30 of head width in male and 0.30−0.35 in female; fronto-orbital plate and upper 4/5 of parafacial covered with golden-yellow pruinosity in male and silver-white pruinosity in female; ocellar triangle occupying posterior 1/2−3/5 of frontal vitta; vibrissa 0.50−0.60 times as long as eye height; inner vertical seta strong, 0.40−0.50 times as long as eye height; arista thickened on approximately basal 2/5, second aristomere about two times as long as wide; palpus black or dark brown, thickened and lighter apically; 1−2 presutural and 1−2 postsutural acrostichal setae; legs black or dark brown; mid tibia with 1 ventral seta; syntergite 1+2 and tergite 3 yellow with a longitudinal black median vitta, tergites 4 and 5 entirely black; syntergite 1+2 with 2−4 lateral marginal setae, tergite 3 with 2−4 median marginal setae. Male terminalia (Figs. 69−72): Sternite 5 with a V-shaped posteromedian cleft, without a membranous area between anterior margin and cleft, and with fine setulae; epandrium broad in caudal view, with fine setulae; cerci slender in caudal view, with fine short setulae on inner lateral margin, deeply separated along most of their length, but fused apically; surstylus long and greatly expanded posteriorly in lateral view, with fine short setulae, pointed apically; hypandrium broad in lateral view, hypandrial arm long and sclerotized; pregonite and postgonite fused, long and broad in lateral view, with several short fine setulae on median lateral margin, elongate anteriorly; ejaculatory apodeme short. Female terminalia (Figs. 35−36): Apex of the finger-like protrusion on tergite 6 forked.
Material examined: CHINA: Liaoning: 2 ♂♂, Laotudingzi, Huanren, 550−1300 m, 30.vi −1.vii.2011, leg. P. Hou (SYNU); 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Laotudingzi, Huanren, 400−1300 m, 28−29.v.2013, leg. P. Hou (SYNU); 3 ♀♀, Huangdaigou, Qingyuan, 600−800 m, 26−31.v.2015, leg. C.T. Zhang (SYNU). Shanxi: 1 ♂, Xiachuan, Qinshui, 1200−1600 m, 12−16.vii.2012, leg. Q. Wang (NKU). Shaanxi: 1 ♂, Mt. Taibai, Baoji, 1200 m, 13.vii.2012, leg. P. Hou (SYNU); 1 ♂, Mt. Zibai, Shizakou, Hanzhong, 1600 m, 18.vii.2012, leg. P. Hou (SYNU). Anhui: 3 ♂♂, 1 ♀, Guniujiang, Qimen, Huangshan, 150–500 m, 7−16.v.2015, leg. Q. Wang (NKU).
Distribution. China (Anhui*, Liaoning*, Shanxi*, Shaanxi*, Taiwan), Kazakhstan, Russia. *Newly recorded.
description: Published as part of Wang, Qiang, Zhang, Chuntian & Wang, Xinhua, 2015, Review of the Hemyda Robineau-Desvoidy of China (Diptera: Tachinidae), pp. 129-148 in Zootaxa 4040 (2) on pages 138-139, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4040.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/239150