Hexamitocera Becker 1894
Creators: name: Ozerov, A. L.
name: Krivosheina, M. G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scathophagidae
Hexamitocera

description: Hexamitocera Becker, 1894
Hexamitocera Becker, 1894: 107. Gender: feminine. Type species: Cordilura loxocerata Fallén, 1826, by original designation.
Hexamitocera includes five species in the world: two are Palaearctic, two are Nearctic and one is Holarctic. Only one species, H. loxocerata (Fallén, 1826), is known in Russia.
Slender, about 6–7 mm long flies. Head. Frons strongly produced (Fig. 3). Frontal vitta yellow; face, parafacial and gena pale yellow. Frontal plate black in upper part and yellow in lower one. Postcranium black, shining, only median occipital sclerite greyish dusted, covered with black hairs. Chaetotaxy: 2 orbital, 5 frontal, 1 ocellar, 1 inner vertical, 1 outer vertical (short), 1 postocellar; 1 pair of small vibrissae and 1–2 pairs of short subvibrissae present. Scapus and pedicel yellow to brownish. Postpedicel black, sometimes yellow basally, rounded apically, approximately 4 times as long as wide. Arista black, pubescent throughout its length. Palpus long, yellow in male and black in female. Proboscis short and wide, palpus longer than proboscis (Fig. 3).
Thorax black, subshining. Acrostichals short and rare, irregular; dorsocentrals 3+2 (first presutural pair pointed anteriorly towards head and short), intra-alars usually absent (1+2 very short, if present), supra-alars 1+2, postpronotals 1–2, notopleurals 2, postalars 2. Proepisternum bare in central part, with 1 long seta near lower margin. Proepimeron with 1 seta. Anepisternum covered with hairs in posterior half and with 1 strong and 2–3 small setae along posterior margin. Katepisternum covered with setae in ventral corner and 2 strong setae (anterior katepisternal and upper posterior katepisternal). Anepimeron bare. Scutellum black, with pair of strong lateral scutellar setae, and pair of apical setulae.
Legs. Coxae yellow; femora yellow but mid femur with black dorsal spot apically and hind femur with black ring at apex; tibiae usually yellow on basal half and darkened apically, but sometimes yellow completely; tarsi usually blackish. Fore femur as a rule with rows of posterodorsal, anteroventral and posteroventral setae, the setae black in female and usually yellow in male. Fore tibia with 1 dorsal (anterodorsal) and 1 posterior setae at middle, and with apical dorsal, apical posterior (posteroventral) setae. Mid femur with row of anterior and 1 preapical posterior setae. Mid tibia with 1 posterodorsal, 1 anterodorsal, 0–1 posterior setae at middle, and ring of apicals. Hind femur with row of anterodorsal, 1 preapical anterior, 1 apical posterior setae, and 1–2 anteroventral setae on apical third. Hind tibia with 2 anterodorsal, 2 posterodorsal, 1 anteroventral, 1 preapical dorsal setae, and 1 apical anteroventral seta.
Wing tinged with brownish; veins blackish; vein R1 bare apically on dorsal surface. Calypters, margins of calypters, and halteres whitish.
Abdomen cylindrical, black, subshining. Female tergites 2–4 each with discal and marginal setae at sides; tergite 5 with discal setae at sides. Male sternite 4 simple, approximately 2 times as long as wide, sternite 5 with short wide lobes (Fig. 60). Surstyli long, simple, cerci fused (Figs 58, 59). Ovipositor short, cylindrical (Fig. 55– 57). Sternite 8 absent.
Biology unknown.
description: Published as part of Ozerov, A. L. & Krivosheina, M. G., 2015, A review of the genera Cleigastra Macquart, Gonarcticus Becker, Gonatherus Rondani, Hexamitocera Becker, Nanna Strobl, Orthacheta Becker and Spathephilus Becker (Diptera, Scathophagidae) of Russia, pp. 201-258 in Zootaxa 4012 (2) on page 216, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4012.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/236912