Empidideicus (Cyrtoides) reemeri Gharali & Evenhuis & Moghbeli 2025, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Gharali, Babak
name: Evenhuis, Neal L.
name: Moghbeli, Sajjad
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Mythicomyiidae
Empidideicus
Empidideicus reemeri

description: Empidideicus (Cyrtoides) reemeri Gharali & Evenhuis sp. nov.
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Types. Holotype female and 1 female paratype, Qazvin: Road to Abazar village, 36°20'50" N, 50°4'15" E, 1512m a. s. l, 24 May 2009, B. Gharali. Holotype in HMIM; paratype in BG.
Diagnosis. Proboscis fleshy, shorter than head height; frons completely yellow; Occiput completely black; mesonotum blackish brown, prescutellar area blackish brown; scutellum blackish brown except posterior margin narrowly yellow.
Description. Female (Fig. 3). Head (Figs. 3a, b): slightly higher than long; eyes dichoptic, separated at vertex by 1.6 times distance between lateral ocelli; occiput completely black, postgena black; frons short, slightly depressed medially, completely yellow; face yellow, tip of oral margin tan to brown; antennae. scape short, subtrapezoidal, yellow; pedicel subconical, wider than long, yellow; first flagellomere lanceolate, length 1.5 times width, brown; second flagellomere slightly more than one-half length of first flagellomere, yellow, with minute transparent apical style; mentum yellow; clypeus yellow; proboscis yellow, brownish basoventrally, fleshy, shorter than head height; labrum sclerotized, stiff, pointed apically, shorter than proboscis; palpus not evident.
Thorax (Fig. 3b). Mesonotum completely blackish brown, prescutellar area blackish brown; dorsolaterally from humeral callus to post alar callus yellow; post pronotal lobes yellow; postalar calli yellow; scutellum blackish brown except posterior margin narrowly yellow; mesonotal disc and dorsum of scutellum with short fine black hairs; pleura bare, anepisternum blackish brown except upper part yellow, katepisternum black except upper margin narrowly yellow, anepimeron black except dorsal margin yellow; meron black, upper margin yellow; halter stem yellow, knob white.
Legs. Coxae brown, femora brown except apex narrowly yellow; tibia brownish yellow; tarsal segment I-II yellow remainder brownish yellow.
Wing (Fig. 3a). Elongate, length 2.5 times width; hyaline; veins brown; costa ends slightly beyond end of R 4+5; vein Sc incomplete; Rs faded basally at connection with R 1; R 4+5 slightly bowed at apical one-third; vein M 1 curved toward wing margin; M 2 straight; M 4 straight; CuA slightly curved, reaching to wing margin; anal vein effaced, not reaching to wing margin; fringe of hair on posterior margin of wing well shortest at wing tip becoming longer and more sparse toward base.
Abdomen. Tergites blackish brown except posterior and lateral margins yellow, sternites yellow with brown mark medially, last sternite brown.
Genitalia. not dissected.
Etymology. The species is named in the honor of Dr. Menno Reemer (Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden) for his brilliant contribution to the taxonomy of Diptera especially the family Syrphidae and also for appreciating of his continuous support of the first author for many years.
Distribution. Empidideicus (Cyrtoides) reemeri sp. nov. was collected only in the Abazar village of Qazvin city in the north of Iran.
Remark. Empidideicus (Cyrtoides) reemeri sp. nov. is easily separated from the other species of the subgenus Cyrtoides in Iran, Empidideicus (Cyrtoides) primitus sp. nov., by the completely black occiput. For the separation of all known species of the subgenus Cyrtoides in the World, the key below was prepared.
description: Published as part of Gharali, Babak, Evenhuis, Neal L. & Moghbeli, Sajjad, 2025, Three new species of the genus Empidideicus Becker, 1907 (Diptera, Mythicomyiidae) from Iran with the first record of the subgenus Cyrtoides Engel, 1933, pp. 529-541 in Zootaxa 5604 (4) on pages 533-535, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5604.4.5, http://zenodo.org/record/15214128