Pygommatius hocus (Oldroyd) Oldroyd, 2005

Scarbrough, A. G. & Hill, H., 2005, Pygommatius Scarbrough & Marascia, a valid ommatiine genus (Diptera: Asilidae) with new combinations and new species from the Philippines, Zootaxa 1055, pp. 1-22 : 10

Pygommatius hocus (Oldroyd) , comb. nov.

Ommatius hocus Oldroyd 1972: 332 ; 1975: 133. Catalog.

Specimens examined. PHILIPPINES: Holotype ɗ, Philippines, Mindanao, Mt. View Colleges, 15 km NW Valencia, 2200 ft, Bukidnon, 22–23.iv.1968 ~ M.D. Delfinado (BPBM); 1 ɗ, [Mindanao] Misamis OR. [ Misamis Oriental], Dinawihan Gingoog, 26 km E of Gingoog, City, 100–300 m, 12.viii.1965, H. Torrevillas (BPBM); 1 Ψ [genitalia absent], [Mindanao] Misamis OR. [ Misamis Oriental], Hindangon 20km, S of Gingoog 600­, 700 m, 20–24.vi.60, H. Torrevillas (BPBM); 1 Ψ, Philippines: Mindanao, Mt. View Colleges, 15 km NW Valencia 2200’, Bukidnon, 22–23.iv.68, M.D. Delfinado (BPBM); 1 Ψ, Camarines Sur: Mt Isarog, 750–850 m, 8–9.1963 ~ H.M. Torrevillas (BPBM); 1 Ψ, same label except, 10–12.v.1963; 1 ɗ, Bukidnon: Musuan, Marameg (Mindanao) 3.i.1989, C.K. Starr & C. Pinto (USNM); 1 Ψ, Philippines # 16, 19.vi.1945, C. L. Remington (USNM); 1 Ψ, Mindanao, P.I., Lalabuah Iniafo, 15.v.1946, CMNH Philippines Zool. E xped (1946–47) H. Hoogstraal ~ Dipterocarp Forest (FMNH).

Remarks. Pygommatius hocus is distinguished by the yellow prosternum, fore coxa, and fore and middle trochanters, the yellow lateral and apical margins of tergites 2–6, especially the wide apical corners being yellow, and usually yellow lateral mesonotal bristles and marginal scutellar bristles, and the wide m1 cell with its contrastingly narrow base. The male is further recognized by the short, ventral row of stout bristles on the basal 1/3 of the fore and middle femora, the abruptly capitate epandrium with its truncate apical margin, the produced hypandrium which has a transverse cluster of stout bristles apically, each of which narrows to a fine point apically and curves laterally; the cluster of bristles is flattened apically and parted medially, forming a mustache­shaped apex (see Oldroyd 1972, Fig. 121).