Hyperusia xantholeuca Bowden, 1975

Greathead, David J., 2006, New records of Namibian Bombyliidae (Diptera), with notes on some genera and descriptions of new species, Zootaxa 1149 (1), pp. 1-88 : 61-62

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1149.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:015DD261-8C5F-496E-A005-169ECDE3D10A

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5058883

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F954D757-F32C-FFD4-3666-F8B6FB08FC97

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scientific name

Hyperusia xantholeuca Bowden
status

 

Hyperusia xantholeuca Bowden View in CoL

Hyperusia xantholeuca Bowden, 1975a: 99 View in CoL .

Distribution. Botswana, Namibia .

Material examined. 1♀, Opuwo District, Hartmanns Valley at: 17°34’01”S 12°16’36”E, 13–15.iii.1999, E. Marais, white pan GoogleMaps ; 3♀♀, Katima Muilo District, Katima Muilo , 17°50’S 24°17’E, 11–14.iv.1997 E. Marais, floodplain savanna, yellow traps GoogleMaps ; 1♀, Etosha National Park, Fishers Pan , 18°47’S 16°55’E, 14.ii.–25.iii.1987, E. Griffin, pres. pitf. traps GoogleMaps ; 3♂♂, 7♀♀, Otjiwarongo District, Hamakari Süd 373, 20°40’S 17°24’E, 20.ii.–25.iv.1991, M. Pusch, pres. pitf. traps GoogleMaps ; 6♂♂, 9♀♀, Otjiwarongo District , Waterberg Pl. Park, 20°25’S 17°20’E, 31.iii.–30.iv..1993, M. Pusch, pres. pitf. traps GoogleMaps ; 1♀, Otjiwarongo District, Rodenstein 307, SE2017 Ca , 22.ii.–7.iii.1998, E. Griffin, pres. pitf. traps ; 4♀♀, Damaraland, Opheus Suid 419, 20°08’S 15°05’E, 27.ii.–20.iv.1995, E. Marais, pres. pitf. traps GoogleMaps .

Notes. Strongly sexually dimorphic: male black (except tibiae and scutellum) with long whitish hair; female head mostly orange, also most of scutellum and legs, short yellow hair and scales. Tentative identification of a specimen in Greathead (2000a) is confirmed, also a female specimen identified as Hyperusia sp. is this species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Bombyliidae

Genus

Hyperusia

Loc

Hyperusia xantholeuca Bowden

Greathead, David J. 2006
2006
Loc

Hyperusia xantholeuca

Bowden 1975: 99
1975
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