Daspletis hirtus Ricardo. 1925
Creators: name: Londt, Jason G. H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1983
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Asilidae
Daspletis

description: <i>Daspletis</i> hirtus Ricardo, 1925. Figs 1 1-15 <b>Daspletis hirtus</b> Ricardo, 1925: 263. Redescription: Based on all material examined including types (the <i>Õ</i> of which is now defective in that the terminal segments of the abdomen are missing). Head (Fig. 11): Antenna (Fig. 12) orange-brown, scape dark red-brown; scape and pedicel with white bristles and setae; first &amp;filig;agellomere with small apical pit enclosing a tiny spine. Face blackish, entirely silver pruinose; lower three-quarters quite strongly protruding. Mystax con&amp;filig;ned to facial protuberance, composed of long white bristles (longer than antennae) and white setae. Vertex blackish, entirely silver pruinose, equipped with white bristles and setae. Ocellarium moderately prominent; ocelli shiny yellowish; ocellar setae well-developed. <i>Occiput</i> blackish, silver pruinose, equipped with white bristles and setae; about 6 long, sinuous, white bristles dorsocentrally (behind occellarium). Proboscis dark, red-brotvn, about twice as long as antennae, with longish white setae ventrally. Palp blackish with long white setae. Thorax: Pleura dark, rethbrown, entirely silver-gold pruinose, with white setae and bristles. Katatergite with a cluster (about 40) of long white bristles. Antepronotum with white setae and bristles (some of which are found on the lateral extremities). Anatergite with a good cluster of white setae laterally. Mesonotum dark, red-brown, entirely dull gold pruinose. Postpronotal lobes yellowish with <i>ca</i>. 5 weak whitish bristles and a group of white setae; <i>ca</i>. 7 notopleural bristles (usually 3 anteriorly, 4 posteriorly), <i>ca</i>. 4-5 supra-alars, <i>ca</i>. 3 postalars, all yellow-white. Dorsocentral bristles black, well developed and extending to anterior margin of mesonotum (some anterior ones may be yellowish). Posterior part of mesonotum with a well-developed median cluster of white setae. Scutellum with <i>ca</i>. 6 yellow-white long marginal bristles; disc with a few &amp;filig;ne white setae only. Halters yellow-brown. Legs: brown-yellow except for all femora, which are dark red-brown with proximal and distal tips brown-yellow, and hind tibia are as femora but have a brown-yellow strip along dorsal parts. Coxac dark red-brown. Bristles and setae long, well developed, white. Claws black with <i>brown-yellow</i> bases. Wings: 732- 113 mm long; 2,4-3,5 mm wide (Zimbabwe specimens smaller than those from northern Cape Province}; holotype 3,4 X 2,6 mm. Membrane transparent, colourless in both sexes. Venetian orange and dark brown. Cells r5 and <i>m</i>; closed and stalked, <i>mp</i> narrowly open or closed on wing margin. Abdomen: Torga and sterna of d‘ dark red-brown to black, entirely silver-gold pruinose. 9 terga with brown lateral and posterior margins, sterna orange-brown especially distal ones; only tg 1-4 pruinose. ci genitalia shiny black, apruinose. All setae white; long in Õ shorter in S? Setas on segments 4-7 directed anteriorly. d genitalia as in Figs 13- 15. Variation: Minimal. Q has more orange-brown on legs (especially femora), thorax (notably the postpronotal lobes) and abdomen. MATERIAL EXAMINED. ZIMBABWE: 1 &amp;male; (now defective) holotype, 1 &amp;female; paratype, Sawmills, 12. ii (or xi). 1 9 20, Rhodesian Museum (BMNH); 1 &amp;male; Sawmills, 23.i i (or xi). 1922, Rhodesian Museum (NM); 1 &amp;male; 1 <i>&amp;female;</i>, Sawmills, l 4. xi. 19 24, R. H. R. Stevenson (NM). SOUTH AFRICA: <i>Cape Province</i>: 3 &amp;male; 7 &amp;female;, Kalahari Gemsbok Park, Nossob R. 35 km N camp, 262oBD, 21. iii. 1982, J. Londt &amp; <b>L</b>. Schoeman, Dry riverbed veget. (NM); 4 &amp;male; 1 &amp;female;, 15 km S Twee Rivieren, 262oDA, 21. iii. 1982, J. Londt &amp; L. Schoeman, <b>Dry</b> roadside veget. (NM); 1 &amp;female; (paratype of <i>D</i>. <i>salicior</i>), Twee Rivieren, 11 -20. ii.1958, Kalahari Gemsbok Park Expedition (NM); 3 &amp;male; 5 &amp;female;, 85 km W Vanzylsrus, 2721 AB, 22.iii. 1 9 82, J. Londt &amp; L. Schoeman, Dry area Shrubs/sand (NM); 1 &amp;male;, 65 km SE Noenieput, 272 0DC, 2 0. iii. 19 82, J. Londt &amp; L. Schoeman Kloof/Green Shrubs (NM); 1 &amp;female;, 20 km N of Noenieput, 2720AC, 2 0. iii.1 982, J. Londt &amp; L. Schoeman, Roadside vegetation (NM); 1 &amp;female;, 25 km N of Noenieput on road to Koopan-Suid, 20. iii. 1982, J. Londt &amp; L. Schoeman, Thick veget./ trees (NM). , Remarks: Two &amp;female; specimens were captured with prey (Lepidoptera- a butter&amp;fllig;y, <i>Colotit agoye bowkeri</i> (Trimen)), and an unidenti&amp;filig;ed moth.
description: Published as part of <i>Londt, Jason G. H., 1983, The Genus Daspletis Loew, 1858 And The Description Of Two New Genera, Anasillomos And Remotomyia (Diptera: Asilidae: Stenopogoninae), pp. 283-308 in Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 46 (2)</i> on pages 289-292, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11781
description: {"references": ["RICARDO, G. 1925. New species of Asilidae from South Africa. Annals and magazine ofnatuml history 15 (9): 234 - 282."]}