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Sepsis biflexuosa Strobl, 1893

Male

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Sepsis biflexuosa. 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 biflexuosa is most reliably recognised in the male sex, by the armature of the fore femur, and the shape of the surstylus.

Source:

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

Morphoglossary

HeadThoraxAbdomen(Male)Abdomen(Female)

Taxonomy Information

Classification

Sepsidae: Sepsinae: "Higher sepsids": Sepsis

Synonyms

SEPSIS BIFLEXUOSA Strobl 1893. Austria, Hungary: AUSTRIA Styria , HUNGARY. Syntypes ♂♂, in Naturhistorisches Museum der Benediktiner- Abtei, Admont, Austria.

signifera Melander et Spuler 1917. Usa: Penn., Chester Co. Holotype ♂, in National Museum of Natural History, Washington, USA.

curvitibia Melander et Spuler 1917. Usa: Washington, Chimacum. Holotype ♂, in National Museum of Natural History, Washington, USA. [As a variety of signifera].

flavipes Goetghebuer et Bastin 1925. Belgium: Brux., Rouge- Cloître. Lectotype ♂, in Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium. [As a variety of biflexuosa].

desultor Séguy 1932. France: Callian. Syntypes ♂♂ [not Holotype as in Pont & Meier, 2002: 149], in Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.

Source:

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

Distribution

Australasian: USA (Hawaiian Is.).

Oriental: Taiwan.

Palaearctic (Asia): Azerbaijan, Israel, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Republic of Georgia, Russia (Irkutskaya Oblast’, Krasnoyarskiy Kray, Novosibirskaya Oblast’, Omskaya Oblast’, Primorskiy Kray, Tyumenskaya Oblast’), Turkey, Turkmenistan.

Palaearctic (Europe): Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, UK, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia (Alania, Leningradskaya Oblast’, Moskovskaya Oblast’, Permskaya Oblast’, Rostovskaya Oblast’), Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, former Yugoslavia.

Palaearctic (North Africa): Canary Is, Morocco, Tunisia.

Nearctic: Canada (Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario), Mexico (Distrito Federal), USA (Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, regon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington).

Source:

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

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