Ommatius pulcher (Engel, 1885)

Montanuci, Pietra S., Vieira, Rodrigo & Krolow, Tiago K., 2023, A new species of Cerozodus and new records of Asilinae and Ommatiinae (Diptera: Asilidae) from Tocantins, Brazil, Iheringia, Série Zoologia (e 2023008) 113, pp. 1-22 : 20-21

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1590/1678-4766e2023008

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11103026

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DF3F87C4-FFEE-FFB8-FC5B-5BC2A439FC4A

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Ommatius pulcher (Engel, 1885)
status

 

Ommatius pulcher (Engel, 1885) View in CoL

( Figs 64–67 View Figs 64–67 )

Material examined. BRASIL [ BRAZIL], Tocantins: Palmas, Distrito de Taquaruçu , Fazenda Encantada , 10°14’45.21”S – 48°07’24.07”W, malaise [malaise trap], 01-08.II.2013, Krolow, T GoogleMaps . K. & Lima, H. I. L. (♂, CEUFT); idem, 07-14.XII.2012, Krolow, T GoogleMaps . K. & Lima, H. I. L. (♂, CEUFT); idem, 16-23.XI.2012, Krolow, T GoogleMaps . K. & Lima, H. I. L. (♂, CEUFT); idem, 13-20.IV.2012, Krolow, T GoogleMaps . K. & Lima, H. I. L. (♂, CEUFT); Palmas, Parque Estadual do Lajeado , 10°06’05.00”S - 48°14’46.00”W, malaise trap, 09-16.XI.2019, Oliveira, J. W. (5♂, CEUFT) GoogleMaps .

Distribution. Brazil (Pará, Tocantins *, Rondônia, Alagoas, Mato Grosso, Bahia, Goiás, Distrito Federal, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso do Sul, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Paraná, Santa Catarina), Paraguay ( VIEIRA et al., 2010; LIMA et al., 2017).

Comments. This species can present great variation in size, color and number of macrosetae (VIEIRA, et al., 2010). This species is characterized by having black mystax ( Figs 66, 67 View Figs 64–67 ), dark wings with apically wide r2 cell with rounded apex, apical scutellar macrosetae absent, yellow legs ( Figs 64, 65 View Figs 64–67 ), extremely robust hind femur with nine anteroventral macrosetae, clavate abdomen, dark brown male terminalia, wide epandrium in the median portion, epandrium with long cercus and truncated apex, gonostylus narrow, gonocoxite with the mid-basal portion of the inner margin curved inward, oval hypandrium.

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Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Asilidae

Genus

Ommatius

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