Rhamphomyia (Rhamphomyia) morio
Creators: name: Shamshev, Igor V.
name: Sinclair, Bradley J.
name: Khruleva, Olga A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Rhamphomyia
Rhamphomyia morio

description: Rhamphomyia (Rhamphomyia) morio (Zetterstedt)
(Fig. 55)
Rhamphomyza morio Zetterstedt, 1838: 565. Type locality (by lectotype designation): Alteidet, Norway. Other references: Collin, 1961: 399 (type data); Barták, 1981: 395 (lectotype designation).
Rhamphomyza villosa Zetterstedt, 1838: 563. Type locality: “Dowrefjell Norvegiae (Lappon. Norvegica)”, Norway. Other references: Collin, 1961: 399 (type data); Barták, 1981: 396 (holotype data).
Rhamphomyza fumipennis Zetterstedt, 1859: 5019. Type locality: “Lapponia Umensi, ad Tarna”, Sweden. Other references: Collin, 1961: 399 (type data); Barták, 1981: 396 (holotype data).
Rhamphomyia (Alpinomyia) morio (Zetterstedt): Frey, 1956: 573 (revision).
Rhamphomyia (Rhamphomyia) morio (Zetterstedt): Frey, 1922: 77 (key); Collin, 1961: 397 (revision); Gorodkov & Kovalev, 1969: 635 (key); Barták, 1981: 395 (revision), 1982: 408 (revision); Chvála & Wagner, 1989: 287 (catalogue); Yang et al., 2007: 185 (catalogue); Shamshev, 2016: 78 (checklist).
Material examined. RUSSIA. Murmanskaya Prov. (Kildin Island): 13.vii.1908, L. Bianki (1 ♂, ZIN).
Recognition. Large (wing length 6–7.5 mm) blackish grey, dark-legged, black setose flies. Male (Fig. 55): holoptic, eyes not quite touching; antenna black, scape nearly 3X longer than pedicel, both with long setae; labrum about 1.5X longer than head height; palpus black, long, with numerous long fine setae; thorax mostly densely greyish pruinescent, scutum greyish brown, somewhat lustrous; prosternum bare, upper proepisternum in front of spiracle with several long fine setae; mesonotal setae intermixed with additional long fine setae, often hardly differentiated, 6–8 sctl; acr long, fine, 2–3-serial, presutural dc slightly longer than acr, 3–4-serial, not separated by bare space from supra-alars anteriorly; legs black, long, slender, mostly shiny to subshiny (except coxae); fore femur covered with dense, very long, fine, irregularly spread setae posteroventrally; hind femur with several anterodorsal setae on about apical half, 4–8 strong short anteroventral setae over entire femur length and some similar setae posteriorly, only pale pilose ventrally; all tibiae with rows of numerous very long strong setae dorsally, hind tibia with 1 long seta in posteroapical comb. fore and hind basitarsi with some longer setae dorsally; wing faintly brownish infuscate, CuA+CuP (anal vein) complete, entirely sclerotized, 1 long basal costal seta present, axillary incision very acute, halter brown; abdomen uniformly light grey pruinescent, denser on sternites; tergites somewhat lustrous, with very long posteromarginal setae; terminalia (Barták 1981: 396, fig. 17a) very similar to R. albosegmentata.
Distribution. Palaearctic; Fennoscandia, Great Britain, mountains of Central Europe, northern European Russia.
Species unplaced to subgenus
description: Published as part of Shamshev, Igor V., Sinclair, Bradley J. & Khruleva, Olga A., 2020, The empidoid flies (Diptera: Empidoidea, exclusive of Dolichopodidae) of the Russian Arctic islands and Svalbard Archipelago, pp. 1-75 in Zootaxa 4848 (1) on pages 50-51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4848.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4406987