Horaismoptera vulpina Hendel, 1907

Munari, Lorenzo, 2016, The Canacidae of the Arabian Peninsula (Diptera: Brachycera: Carnoidea), Zootaxa 4092 (4), pp. 489-517 : 495

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4092.4.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E6C06D83-2B9C-44DE-A085-490E3240258A

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6081217

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Horaismoptera vulpina Hendel, 1907
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Horaismoptera vulpina Hendel, 1907: 240 [ Yemen. Abd-al-Kuri; ST ♂, NMW (or DEI?)].

Distribution. Afrotropical: Oman, United Arab Emirates, Yemen (Abd al Kuri Is., Socotra Is.), Kenya, Madagascar, Tanzania. Palaearctic: Egypt, Iran, Qatar, Saudi Arabia (new).

Additional material examined. Saudi Arabia: Jazan, Alshogaiek, 9 m, 17°41’N – 42°02’E, sweeping seaweed, 12.ii.2015, H.A. Dawah, 16 ♂♂ 18 ♀♀, plus numerous unprepared specimens of both sexes, [LMC, NMWC, Jazan University]; Farasan Island, seaweed on beach, 9.ii.2012, J.C. Deeming, 1 ♂, [Jazan University].

Remarks. An unmistakable, common species that can be easily distinguished from congeners by the scutellum with numerous setae towards the sides of dorsal surface, between basal and apical major scutellar setae. An additional, non genitalic character distinguishing it from the other species of the genus is the anteroventral ctenidial comb of the forefemur, which is distinctly long, extending 2/3‒3/4 length of femur.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Canacidae

Genus

Horaismoptera

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