Pygommatius scinius (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 : 19

Pygommatius scinius (Oldroyd) , comb. nov.

Ommatius scinius Oldroyd 1972: 334 ; 1975: 134. Catalog.

Specimen examined. PHILIPPINES: Holotype ɗ, Philippines, Luzon, Mountain Province, Ifugao, Mayoyao, 1100–1500 m, 6.vii.1966 ~ H.M. Torrevillas (BPBM).

Remarks. Pygommatius scinius is most similar to P. iriga and P. montanus in that only the anepisternum, katepisternum and meron are mostly black, the remaining pleuron is yellow; the yellowish tomentum of the mesonotum, the narrow base of the proboscis and the entire fore coxa are yellow. It is distinguished by the combined characters of the male terminalia (see Oldroyd 1972, Fig. 122), especially the abruptly wide, flat, triangular apex of the median branch of the epandrium, the lower 1/2 of the apical margin is notched, whereas the ventral branch is shorter, hooked, and acutely pointed. Additionally, the yellowish antenna, the ventral rows of stout yellow bristles on the fore and middle femora of which those on the latter are contrastingly short and comblike apically and wider spaced and longer basally; the fore tibia is swollen apically, apex 1.6 times as wide as the basal diameter with two unusually stout bristles; and a fringe of yellow bristles on tergite 5 laterally.