Minilimosina (Svarciella) vitripennis ( Zetterstedt, 1847 )

Su, Lixin, Liu, Guangchun & Xu, Jie, 2015, A review of Minilimosina Roháček (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae) from China, Zootaxa 4007 (1), pp. 1-28 : 26-27

Minilimosina (Svarciella) vitripennis ( Zetterstedt, 1847)

( Figs. 103–106 )

Limosina vitripennis Zetterstedt, 1847: 2505 [both sexes]. Type locality: Sweden, in Scania ad Esperd". LT male, designated by Roháček, 1983: 32 (MZLU).

Minilimosina (Svarciella) vitripennis .— Roháček, 1982: 275 –277 [illustr.]; Roháček, 1983: 31 –33 [generic combination, redescription, phylogenetic notes]; Marshall, 1985: 27 –29 [diagnosis, phylogenetic notes, biology, illustr.]; Roháček & Marshall, 1988: 244, 259 [key, taxonomy].

Minilimosina (Svarciella) vitripennis .— Su, 2011: 76–77 [redescription], 186 [ Figs. 40 a–f] [male]; Su et al., 2013: 21–22 [redescription, illustr.] [male].

Diagnosis. Body colour brownish black. Eye 2.7 times as high as gena. Antennae brownish black. Apical scutellar seta 1.3 times as long as scutellum length. Legs brownish black, trochanters and tarsi dark brown. Wing with black Cs2, Cs2 0.8 times as long as Cs3. Tergites 1–5 pale pigmented, weakly sclerotized. Deflexed posteromedial process of male sternite 5 ( Fig. 106 ) broadly Y-shaped, only with small setulae.

Materal examined. (LKLSU, in alcohol): 1 male: China, Hebei, Mt. Xiaowutai, Mt. Dongling, sweep, 1200– 2000 m, 28.Jun.2009, Lixin Su.

Distribution. Nearctic: Canada, USA; Palaearctic: Afghanistan, China (Hebei), Europe, North Korea.

Figures

FIGURES 103 – 106. Minilimosina (Svarciella) vitripennis (Zetterstedt): 103, male genitalia, posterior; 104, male genitalia, lateral; 105, aedeagus and associated structures, lateral; 106, male sternite 5, ventral.

FIGURES 39 – 41. Minilimosina (Svarciella) cornigera Roháček & Marshall: 39, gonostylus, lateral; 40, male sternite 5, ventral; 41, male sternite 5, posterior.