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Meroplius (Xenosepsis) fukuharai Iwasa, 1984

Male

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Meroplius(Xenosepsis) fukuharai. Male alcohol-vouchered specimen.

Deposited at:  Evolutionary Biology Laboratory, National University of Singapore (Singapore)

Yuchen Ang
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Diagnosis

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Diagnostic illustrations for adults

Adapted from:

Pont AC & Meier R (2002). The Sepsidae (Diptera) of Europe. Brill: 1-188.

Adult recognised by the absence of postocellar setae, and by the structure of the male fore legs. For Larvae, anal division on dorsal side with three long double-rows of spines which reach to the level of the lateral tubercles; spines large, with blunt tips; anal division with large warts around the origin of the ventral tubercles; otherwise without hairs.

Source:

Pont AC & Meier R (2002). The Sepsidae (Diptera) of Europe. Brill: 1-188.

Morphoglossary

HeadThoraxAbdomen(Male)Abdomen(Female)

Taxonomy Information

Classification

Sepsidae: Sepsinae: "Lower sepsids": Meroplius

Synonyms

MEROPLIUS(XENOSEPSIS)FUKUHARAI Iwasa 1984. Japan: Hokkaido Is., Mori, Oshima. Holotype ♂, in National Science Museum, Tokyo, Japan.

Source:

Ozerov 2005, World Catalogue of the Family Sepsidae (Insecta: Diptera), Zoologicheskie issledovania 8.

Distribution

Palaearctic (Asia): China (Heilongjiang, Sichuan), Japan (Hokkaido Is., Honshu Is., Kyushu Is.), Korea, Russia (Amurskaya Oblast’, Khabarovskiy Kray, Krasnoyarskiy Kray, Primorskiy Kray, Sakhalinskaya Oblast’, Sverdlovskaya Oblast’, Tyumenskaya Oblast’).

Palaearctic (Europe): Czech Republic, France, Germany, UK, Hungary, Russia (Alania, Moskovskaya Oblast’), Slovakia.

Source:

Ozerov 2005, World Catalogue of the Family Sepsidae (Insecta: Diptera), Zoologicheskie issledovania 8.

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