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Sepsis duplicata Haliday, 1838

Male

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Sepsis duplicata. 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 duplicata is a small species, immediately recognised by having the anterior half of meron glossy black, contrasting with the white pruinose katepisternum and posterior half of meron, and, in the male sex, by the long ventral hairs on mid and hind femora.

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 DUPLICATA Haliday 1838. United Kingdom: England, Kent. Holotype ♂, in National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.

pilipes Van der Wulp 1871. Netherlands: Oosterdoksdijk te Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia terdam and Utrecht. Syntypes ♂♂ and ♀♀, not located.

pilipes Loew 1873. Hungary(?): presumably "Ungarn" [= HUNGARY]. Lectotype ♂, in Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt- Universität, Berlin, Germany. Junior primary homonym, preoccupied by Sepsis pilipes Van der Wulp, 1871.

loewi Hendel 1902. Substitute name for pilipes Loew.

Source:

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

Distribution

Palaearctic (Asia): Japan (Hokkaido Is.), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Republic of Georgia, Russia (Amurskaya Oblast’, Chitinskaya Oblast’,Irkutskaya Oblast’, Krasnoyarskiy Kray, Primorskiy Kray, Sakhalinskaya Oblast’).

Palaearctic (Europe): Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, UK, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Russia (Alania, Belgorodskaya Oblast’,Leningradskaya Oblast’, Lipetskaya Oblast’, Moskovskaya Oblast’, Voronezhskaya Oblast’), Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, former Yugoslavia.

Source:

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

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