Remotomyia penrithae Londt 1983, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Londt, Jason G. H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1983
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Asilidae
Remotomyia
Remotomyia penrithae

description: <i>Remotomyia penrithae</i> spec. nov. Figs 46-48 Derivation: Named for Dr Mary-Lou Penrith whose entomological activities have added much to our knowledge of Namibian insects. Description: Based on ô holotype (pinned above a 9 paratype with which it was copulating at the time of capture) but supplemented with information taken from paratypes. Head: Antenna similar to <i>alboseyat&amp;imath;s</i> but with fewer yellowish bristles on ventral aspect of scape. Face orange-brown, similar to <i>albosetatus</i>. Mystax with yellow and white bristles. Vertex, ocellarium, occiput and proboscis similar to <i>aêàosetatus</i>. Palp very short (about one-third length of proboscis). Thorax: Pleura orange-brown, gold pruinose, few setae except for dorsal part of anepisternum which has a group of white setae. Katatergite with 5-7 yellow bristles and few small white setae. Antepronotum with a few yellow bristles anteriorly only. Anatergite with a row of small white setae laterally. Mesonotum dark brown with orange-brown postpronotal lobes; silver and red-gold pruinose stripes. 3 postpronotal bristles, 3 notopleurals, 2 supra-alars, 3 postalars, all brown-yellow. Dorsocentrals extending anteriorly only as far as transverse suture, brown-yellow. Scutellum with 4 yellowish marginal bristles; disc with a fair number of white setae mostly posteriorly. Halters brown-yellow. Legs: dark red-brown except for ventral aspects of femora and terminal tarsomeres which are orange-brown; bristles yellowish (shortish 0n femora), setae white. Claws orange with black tips. Wings: holotype 5,5 X 1,7 mm (others larger, range 6,1 - 7,2 X 2,3 - 2,6 mm); membrane transparent, colourless, ventation dark brown. Cell r5 widely open, <i>m</i> 3 closed and stalked, <i>mp</i> closed on wing margin. Abdomen: Dark red-brown, gold pruinose, covered with short white setae (yellow laterally on terga). d genitalia as in Figs 46-48, similar to <i>âmnales</i> but fused gonocoxites narrower. 9 with setae of tg 6 and tg 7 anteriorly directed. Variation: Negligible. MATERIAL EXAMINED. NAMIBIA: 3 &amp;male; 4 &amp;female; (holotype &amp;male; and paratypes), Blinkoog, Warmbad, SE719a, 14-17.x. 1971, H 4487 (SMW, NM}; 1 &amp;female; (paratype), Riverside 135, Bethanie, SE2616CA, 23-16 (?). x.1 9 71, H4826 (SMW); 1 <i>&amp;female;</i> (paratype), Kukorob 14, Keetrnanshoop, SE 2518Ca, 13.x. 1 9 71, H4445 (SMW); 1 &amp;female;, (paratype), Bagani, SE1 321 Ba, Kavango, H 3955 (SMW); I? (defective), Takuasa, SE720d, Kavango, 14-1 9. viii.1971, H. 2998 (SMW). NM type number 2658. BOTSWANA: 1 &amp;male; 1&amp;female; 1 defective (paratypes), Mboma Island, Moremi Reserve, 20° 17 ' E: 19° 11 <i>'</i> S, 12.ix. 1 9 77, A. Russell-Smith, In sparse <i>Acacia nigrescens</i> Woodland on game tracks, sandy soil (NM). Remarks: Appears to be a spring active species (Table 1).
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 page 306, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11781