Hemyda obscuripennis Meigen 1824
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 obscuripennis

description: Hemyda obscuripennis (Meigen, 1824)
(Figs. 37−48, 73−76)
Phania obscuripennis Meigen, 1824: 219. Holotype ♂ (MNHN). Type locality: South France.
References. Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 432; Ziegler & Shima 1996: 441; Zhang & Fu 2011: 295.
Diagnosis. Male (Figs. 37−41, 73−76) and female (Figs. 42−48). Body length: 8.0−10.0 mm. Eye kidney-shaped, hind margin strongly indented; vertex 0.25−0.30 of head width in male and 0.30−0.35 in female; fronto-orbital plate and upper parafacial covered with golden-yellow pruinosity in male and silver-white pruinosity in female; ocellar triangle occupying at most posterior 1/4 of frontal vitta; vibrissa 0.15−0.20 times as long as eye height; inner vertical seta short, 0.15−0.20 times as long as eye height; arista thickened on approximately basal 1/ 3 in male and basal 2/ 5 in female, second aristomere about 1.5 times as long as wide in male and about 2.2 times as long as wide in female; palpus black or dark brown, thickened and yellow apically; 0−1 presutural and 1 postsutural acrostichal setae; legs black or dark brown; mid tibia without ventral seta in male and with 1−2 ventral setae in female; syntergite 1+2 and tergite 3 yellow with a longitudinal black median vitta (sometimes interrupted medially), most of tergite 4 and the whole of tergite 5 black; syntergite 1+2 with 2 lateral discal and 2 lateral marginal setae, tergite 3 with 2−4 lateral discal and 2−4 lateral marginal setae. Male terminalia (Figs. 73−76): Sternite 5 with posteromedian cleft in the shape of an inverted Y, without a membranous area between anterior margin and cleft, and with fine setulae posteriorly; epandrium broad in caudal view, with fine setulae, inner margin with two elongate portions; cerci broad in caudal view, separated in proximal half and fused in distal half, with fine setulae, and pointed apically; surstylus short and expanded posteriorly in lateral view, with fine short setulae; hypandrium broad in lateral view, hypandrial arm slender and sclerotized; pregonite and postgonite long and broad, elongate anteriorly in lateral view; ejaculatory apodeme short. Female terminalia (Figs. 47−48): Tergite 6 ventrally with a bifid protrusion basally, bent posteriorly.
Material examined: CHINA: Inner Mongolia: 4 ♂♂, 1 ♀, Beishan Forest Park, Jiagedaqi, 1100−1400 m, 6.viii.2007, leg. H. Ao (SYNU); 2 ♂♂, Beishan Forest Park, Jiagedaqi, 1100−1400 m, 6.viii.2007, leg. J. Hao (SYNU); 2 ♂♂, Beishan Forest Park, Jiagedaqi, 1100−1400 m, 6.viii.2007, leg. Z.Y. Yao (IZCAS); 1 ♀, Mt. Dongsiren, Aershan, 1200−1450 m, 27.vii.2007, leg. H. Ao (SYNU). Liaoning: 2 ♂♂, Nandian, Benxi, 450 m, 7.vii.1970, leg. W.Q. Xue (SYNU); 1 ♂, Mt. Qingliang, Xiuyan, 300−600 m, 9.vi.2013, leg. P. Hou (SYNU); 1 ♂, Mt. Dahei, Jiancang, 650−1100 m, 29.v.2008, leg. J.Y. Liu (SYNU); 1 ♂, Mt. Dahei, Jiancang, 600−1100 m, 25−26.vi.2010, leg. Y. Liu (SYNU); 1 ♀, Mt. Dahei, Jiancang, 600−1100 m, 25−26.vi.2010, leg. B. Li (SYNU). Shanxi: 1 ♀, Dahe, Yicheng, 1200−1600 m, 17−20.vii.2012, leg. Q. Wang (NKU). Shaanxi: 1 ♂, Huoditang, Ningshan, 1400−1720 m, 11−12.vii.2012, leg. C.T. Zhang (SYNU). Hubei: 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Mt. Jiugong, Tongshan, Xianning, 400−700 m, 16−17.vi.2014, leg. P. Hou (SYNU).
Distribution. China (Liaoning, Hubei*, Shanxi*, Shaanxi*, Inner Mongolia *), Europe, France, Germany, Moravia, Poland, Ukraine, Japan. *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 139-141, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4040.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/239150