Mythenteles Hall & Evenhuis
Creators: name: Gibbs, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bombyliidae
Mythenteles

description: Key to species of Mythenteles Hall & Evenhuis
1. A yellow notopleural stripe above wing base joining post pronotal lobe and post-alar callus (also both yellow) ...... 2
- Sides of mesonotum above wing base with no more than a thin, yellow line along suture from post-pronotal lobe to wing base ...................................................................................................................................................................... 6
2. Crossvein DM-Cu present ............................................................................................................................................ 3
- Crossvein DM-Cu absent.............................................................................................................................................. 5
3. Pleura partly yellow, anepisternum about half yellow with black inverted comma-shaped spot anteriorly, coxae mostly yellow, often a little darkened basally. Proboscis relatively short, only exceeding oral margin a little, not exceeding antennae (Greece) ......................................................................................................... rameli Gibbs, sp. n.
- Pleura mostly black, anepisternum with no more than a pale dorsal streak. Proboscis extending well beyond oral margin ........................................................................................................................................................................... 4
4. Femora entirely yellow; scutellum brown with yellow on extreme lateral margins; proboscis length more than 2 times head height (Bangladesh) .................................................................................................. rigirostris (Evenhuis)
- Femora black to brown basally, yellow apically; scutellum entirely yellow; proboscis shorter (China) ....................... ........................................................................................................................................................ asiatica (Evenhuis)
5. Scutellum entirely black. Thorax with large, distinct yellowish white notopleural stripe but disc of mesonotum sol- idly black (Spain) .............................................................................................. infrequens Evenhuis & Blasco-Zumeta
- Scutellum entirely yellow to white, no dark colour present. Mesonotum yellow with black medial pattern (Israel) ... ..................................................................................................................................... wadimurri Evenhuis & Theodor
6. Scutellum entirely yellow to white, no dark colour present (Spain) .............. hispanicola Evenhuis & Blasco-Zumeta
- Scutellum brown to black, yellow colour, if present, restricted to extreme lateral margins......................................... 7
7. Crossvein DM-Cu absent.............................................................................................................................................. 8
- Crossvein DM-Cu present .......................................................................................................................................... 10
8. Proboscis long, about 1.5 times head height; tibia with yellow apically (northern India) .................. indica (Brunetti)
- Proboscis shorter than head height, tibia all dark, no yellow colour apically .............................................................. 9
9. Proboscis short, only slightly protruding beyond oral margin; abdominal tergites I-III all dark, without yellow fas- ciae; with only 2 spermathecae, the middle one missing (Israel) ................................................ coptopheles Evenhuis
- Proboscis longer, about 0.6 times head height and clearly protruding beyond the oral margin; abdominal tergites I-III usually with yellowish fasciae laterally; with three subequal spermathecae, the middle one with a much shorter and simplified duct (Spain) ........................................................................................................................ andalusica Gibbs
10. Abdominal tergites yellow fasciate apically; postalar callus and apices of femora distinctly yellow........................ 11
- Abdominal tergites brown to black, not distinctly yellow fasciate; postalar callus and apices of femora black or yel- low............................................................................................................................................................................... 13
11. Second antennal flagellomere ca. 3/4 length of first flagellomere (Fig. 8); with two well developed spermathecae, medial spermatheca extremely reduced (Cyprus) ............................................................................ deemingi Evenhuis
- Second antennal flagellomere less than 1/2 length of first flagellomere (e.g., Fig. 11); with three well-developed spermathecae............................................................................................................................................................... 12
12. Vein R2+3 arising almost perpendicularly from Rs (Fig. 22) (western U.S.) ......................................... silus Evenhuis
- Vein R2+3 arising at an acute angle from Rs (Fig. 19) (Greece) ................................................... hellenicae Evenhuis
13. Legs all dark brown to black; propleuron with yellow to white colour (western U.S.) .......... propleuralis (Melander)
- Legs with tips of femora and all of tibiae and tarsi yellowish brown; propleuron all dark brown in colour, no con- trasting white or yellow colour present (Israel) .............................................................................. freidbergi Evenhuis
description: Published as part of Gibbs, David, 2009, A new microbombyliid Mythenteles rameli sp. n. (Diptera, Mythicomyiidae) from Northern Greece, pp. 50-56 in Zootaxa 2162 on page 51, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189027