Hemyda obscuripennis ( Meigen, 1824 )

Wang, Qiang, Zhang, Chuntian & Wang, Xinhua, 2015, Review of the Hemyda Robineau-Desvoidy of China (Diptera: Tachinidae), Zootaxa 4040 (2), pp. 129-148 : 139-141

Hemyda obscuripennis ( Meigen, 1824)

( Figs. 37−48 , 73−76 )

Phania obscuripennis Meigen, 1824: 219 . Holotype ♂ (MNHN). Type locality: South France.

References. Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 432; Ziegler & Shima 1996: 441; Zhang & Fu 2011: 295.

Diagnosis. Male ( Figs. 37−41 , 73−76 ) and female ( Figs. 42−48 ). Body length: 8.0−10.0 mm. Eye kidney-shaped, hind margin strongly indented; vertex 0.25−0.30 of head width in male and 0.30−0.35 in female; fronto-orbital plate and upper parafacial covered with golden-yellow pruinosity in male and silver-white pruinosity in female; ocellar triangle occupying at most posterior 1/4 of frontal vitta; vibrissa 0.15−0.20 times as long as eye height; inner vertical seta short, 0.15−0.20 times as long as eye height; arista thickened on approximately basal 1/ 3 in male and basal 2/ 5 in female, second aristomere about 1.5 times as long as wide in male and about 2.2 times as long as wide in female; palpus black or dark brown, thickened and yellow apically; 0−1 presutural and 1 postsutural acrostichal setae; legs black or dark brown; mid tibia without ventral seta in male and with 1−2 ventral setae in female; syntergite 1+2 and tergite 3 yellow with a longitudinal black median vitta (sometimes interrupted medially), most of tergite 4 and the whole of tergite 5 black; syntergite 1+2 with 2 lateral discal and 2 lateral marginal setae, tergite 3 with 2−4 lateral discal and 2−4 lateral marginal setae. Male terminalia ( Figs. 73−76 ): Sternite 5 with posteromedian cleft in the shape of an inverted Y, without a membranous area between anterior margin and cleft, and with fine setulae posteriorly; epandrium broad in caudal view, with fine setulae, inner margin with two elongate portions; cerci broad in caudal view, separated in proximal half and fused in distal half, with fine setulae, and pointed apically; surstylus short and expanded posteriorly in lateral view, with fine short setulae; hypandrium broad in lateral view, hypandrial arm slender and sclerotized; pregonite and postgonite long and broad, elongate anteriorly in lateral view; ejaculatory apodeme short. Female terminalia ( Figs. 47−48 ): Tergite 6 ventrally with a bifid protrusion basally, bent posteriorly.

Material examined: CHINA: Inner Mongolia: 4 ♂♂, 1 ♀, Beishan Forest Park, Jiagedaqi, 1100−1400 m, 6.viii.2007, leg. H. Ao ( SYNU); 2 ♂♂, Beishan Forest Park, Jiagedaqi, 1100−1400 m, 6.viii.2007, leg. J. Hao ( SYNU); 2 ♂♂, Beishan Forest Park, Jiagedaqi, 1100−1400 m, 6.viii.2007, leg. Z.Y. Yao ( IZCAS); 1 ♀, Mt. Dongsiren, Aershan, 1200−1450 m, 27.vii.2007, leg. H. Ao ( SYNU). Liaoning: 2 ♂♂, Nandian, Benxi, 450 m, 7.vii.1970, leg. W.Q. Xue ( SYNU); 1 ♂, Mt. Qingliang, Xiuyan, 300−600 m, 9.vi.2013, leg. P. Hou ( SYNU); 1 ♂, Mt. Dahei, Jiancang, 650−1100 m, 29.v.2008, leg. J.Y. Liu ( SYNU); 1 ♂, Mt. Dahei, Jiancang, 600−1100 m, 25−26.vi.2010, leg. Y. Liu ( SYNU); 1 ♀, Mt. Dahei, Jiancang, 600−1100 m, 25−26.vi.2010, leg. B. Li ( SYNU). Shanxi: 1 ♀, Dahe, Yicheng, 1200−1600 m, 17−20.vii.2012, leg. Q. Wang (NKU). Shaanxi: 1 ♂, Huoditang, Ningshan, 1400−1720 m, 11−12.vii.2012, leg. C.T. Zhang ( SYNU). Hubei: 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Mt. Jiugong, Tongshan, Xianning, 400−700 m, 16−17.vi.2014, leg. P. Hou ( SYNU).

Distribution. China (Liaoning, Hubei*, Shanxi*, Shaanxi*, Inner Mongolia *), Europe, France, Germany, Moravia, Poland, Ukraine, Japan. *Newly recorded.

Figures

FIGURES 37 − 41. Hemyda obscuripennis (Meigen), ♂ (Shaanxi, Ningshan, Huoditang, 1400 − 1720 m, 11 − 12. vii. 2012, C. T. Zhang). 37. Body in dorsal view. 38. Body in lateral view. 39. Head in anterior view. 40. Head in lateral view. 41. Wing in dorsal view.

FIGURES 42 − 48. Hemyda obscuripennis (Meigen), ♀ (Shanxi, Yicheng, Dahe, 1200 − 1600 m, 17 − 20. vii. 2012, Q. Wang). 42. Body in dorsal view. 43. Body in lateral view. 44. Head in anterior view. 45. Head in lateral view. 46. Wing in dorsal view. 47. Terminalia in ventral view. 48. Terminalia in lateral view.

FIGURES 73 − 76. Male terminalia of Hemyda obscuripennis (Meigen) (Shaanxi, Ningshan, Huoditang, 1400 − 1720 m, 11 − 12. vii. 2012, C. T. Zhang). 73. Epandrium, cerci and surstyli in caudal view. 74. Epandrium, cerci and surstyli in lateral view. 75. Sternite 5 in ventral view. 76. Aedeagal apodeme, ejaculatory apodeme, hypandrium, pregonite, postgonite, basiphallus and distiphallus in lateral view. Scale bars = 0. 25 mm.