Sepsis fissa Becker, 1903

Male

Sepsis fissa. Male alcohol-vouchered specimen.

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

Yuchen Ang

Diagnostic illustrations for adults

Adapted from:

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

The adult is easily recognised by the milky-white wing-tip, at the tip of veins R4+5 and M1+2 and beyond the dark spot.

Source:

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

Sepsidae: Sepsinae: "Higher sepsids": Sepsis

SEPSIS FISSA Becker 1903. Egypt: Cairo. Lectotype ♂, in Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt- Universität, Berlin, Germany.

Source:

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

Afrotropical: Republic of South Africa.

Oriental: Pakistan.

Palaearctic (Asia): Iran, Israel, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan.

Palaearctic (Europe): Italy (Sicily Is.), Malta, Romania, Slovakia.

Palaearctic (North Africa): Egypt.

Source:

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

Sepsidae