Ommatius jianfenglingensis, Zhang & Zhang & Yang, 2014

Zhang, Li-Li, Zhang, Kui-Yan & Yang, Ding, 2014, Three new species of the genus Ommatius Wiedemann from Hainan, China (Diptera: Asilidae), Zoological Systematics 39 (4), pp. 561-569 : 565-568

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11865/zs.20140409

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D0D22F8D-3A8C-4399-9C24-01CBCF3A82AF

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039A590D-E821-FFEF-FF28-F9524483707D

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Ommatius jianfenglingensis
status

sp. nov.

3.3 Ommatius jianfenglingensis View in CoL sp. nov. ( Figs 14–18 View Figs 14-18 , 21 View Figs 19–21 )

Diagnosis. This species is similar to O. corolla in that the epandrium is narrow in dorsal view ( Fig. 14 View Figs 14-18 ) but is significantly different in the nearly truncate apex, and is separated by the following characters: scape and pedicel yellow, postpedicel brown; thorax mostly yellow; hind femur yellow, brown dorsally and apically. In O. corolla the scape and pedicel are black, postpedicel is brownish-yellow; the thorax is black; and the hind femur is mostly black, brown at basal 1/3. O. jianfenglingensis sp. nov. is also diagnosed by: facial bristles mixed pale and brown; mystax and postocular bristles pale; antennal scape and pedicel yellow, postpedicel brown; thorax mostly yellow; coxae and fore and mid femora yellow; epandrium slightly prolongated apically in dorsal view.

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Description. Male. Body length 11 mm, wing length 7 mm.

Head. Black. Face pale yellow tomentose, 2 thin pale bristles medially, 4 thin brown bristles on ventral 1/3; mystax with sparse thin yellow bristles; frons black, pale yellow tomentose; vertex blackish-brown, several short brown hairs laterally; occipital hairs pale, longer and denser ventrally; postocular bristles pale, curved forward. Scape and pedicel

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© Zoological Systematics, 39(4): 561–569 yellow, postpedicel brown, nearly twice as long as combined length of scape and pedicel. Proboscis black, pale hairs basally and apically; palpus black, hairs and bristles black.

Thorax. Mostly yellow, white tomentose. Dorsal half of antepronotum black, pale hairs and 2 pale bristles. Mesonotum largely black, posterior area near postalar callus yellow; 4 dc, 2 npl, 1 spa and 1 pal, all black except last one of dc yellow. Scutellum black, discal hairs and 2 marginal bristles pale. Thirteen katatergal bristle pale. Wing hyaline, brownish tinged, especially on apical 1/4; microtrichia dense on apical 1/3; crossvein r-m at apical 1/3 of discal cell. Anal cell closed with short stalk. Halter yellow.

Legs. Yellow. Coxae yellow, dense pale hairs and bristles, hind coxa with 1 pale bristle medially. Trochanters yellow. Fore femur yellow, ventral hairs pale (longest ones as long as greatest vertical height of femur); mid femur yellow, 1 black bristle at basal 1/3 anteriorly, 1 pale bristle at apical 1/3 anteriorly, and pale ventral hairs (shorter than greatest vertical height of femur); hind femur brownish-yellow except dorsally and apex dark brown, basal 1/3 pale haired ventrally, longest as long as greatest vertical height of femur. Fore tibia yellow, short hairs ventrally, 2 long pale bristles posteriorly; mid tibia yellow, with 2 ad, 2 v and 2 pv, both pale; hind tibia yellow except apical 1/3 dark brown, with 2 ad, 2 pad and 1 av. Fore and mid tarsi yellow, apex of tarsomeres 1–4 brown, tarsomere 5 brown to dark brown, narrow base paler, hind tarsus largely dark brown, narrow base pale, hairs and bristles black.

Abdomen. Tergites 1–6 black, with posterior and lateral margin yellow. Sternites 1–5 yellow, sternite 6 black at middle, sternites 7–8 entirely black. Hairs on tergites pale and black mixed, but posterior margin bristles and lateral bristles pale except those on tergites 7–8 black. Male genitalia ( Figs 14–19 View Figs 14-18 View Figs 19–21 ). Epandrium slightly prolonged dorsally like a corner, hypandrium triangular in ventral view; gonocoxite with 1 strong black bristle at apical 1/3.

Female. Unknown.

Type material. Holotype male, Hainan, Jianfengling, Botany Garden , 25 April 2007, Shan Huo.

Etymology. The specific name refers to the type locality of Jianfengling, Hainan.

Distribution. China (Hainan).

Funding This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41102006), and a grant (O529YX5105) from the Key Laboratory of the Zoological Systematics and Evolution of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Asilidae

Genus

Ommatius

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