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Sepsis flavimana Meigen, 1826

Male

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Sepsis flavimana. 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 flavimana is most reliably recognised in the male sex, by the form of the fore tibia, the armature of fore femur, and the characteristic, almost beak-like 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 FLAVIMANA Meigen 1826. Germany (?): not stated [probably GERMANY: Stolberg]. Lectotype ♀, by designation of Pont in Pont & Meier, 2002: 161, in Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.

ruficornis Meigen 1826 (as Micropeza). Germany(?): not stated [probably GERMANY: Stolberg]. Lectotype ♂, by designation of Pont in Pont & Meier, 2002: 161, in Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.

pygmaea Robineau-Desvoidy 1830. France: Saint-Sauveur. Syntypes, sex not stated, presumed destroyed.

maculipes Walker 1833. England: England, near London, and near Ambleside, Westmoreland. Syntypes ♂♂ and ♀♀, presumed destroyed.

vicaria Walker 1849. Usa: New York. Lectotype ♀, in The Natural History Museum, London, Uk.

simplex Goetghebuer et Bastin 1925. Belgium: Heusden Fl. and Schooten Camp. Syntypes ♂♂, not located.

borealis Frey 1925. Finland: Aaland Islands, Eckerö. Lectotype ♂, by designation of Pont in Pont & Meier, 2002: 161, in Zoological Museum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. ‘New name’ for nigripes sensu Frey (1908: 584), not Meigen [misidentification].

Melanopoda Duda 1926. Germany: Harz Mts, Brocken. Lectotype ♂, n Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt- Universität, Berlin, Germany.

kerteszi Duda 1926. Czech Republic: Tatra Mts. Lectotype ♂, in Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt- Universität, Berlin, Germany. [As a variety of Melanopoda].

meijerei Duda 1926. Netherlands: Beetsterzwaag. Holotype ♂, in Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt- Universität, Berlin, Germany.

Melauopoda. Incorrect subsequent spelling of Melanopoda [Duda, 1926a: 128].

Source:

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

Distribution

Palaearctic (Asia): China, Iran, Japan (HokkaidoI.), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Republic of Georgia, Russia (Altay, Amurskaya Oblast’,Irkutskaya Oblast’, Kamchatskaya Oblast’, Krasnoyarskiy Kray, Magadanskaya Oblast’,Novosibirskaya Oblast’, Omskaya Oblast’, Primorskiy Kray, Sakha, Sakhalinskaya Oblast’,Sverdlovskaya Oblast’, Tomskaya Oblast’, Tyumenskaya Oblast’), Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

Palaearctic (Europe): Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France (incl. Corsica Is.), Germany, UK, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia (Alania, Arkhangel’skayaOblast’, Belgorodskaya Oblast’, Ivanovskaya Oblast’, Krasnodarskiy Kray, LeningradskayaOblast’, Moskovskaya Oblast’, Murmanskaya Oblast’, Nizhegorodskaya Oblast’, PskovskayaOblast’, Ryazanskaya Oblast’, Samarskaya Oblast’, Smolenskaya Oblast’, Stavropol’skiy Kray,Yaroslavskaya Oblast’), Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, former Yugoslavia.

Nearctic: Canada (Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario,Quebec). USA (Alabama, Alaska, California, Colorado, District Colombia, Georgia, Idaho,Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania,Virginia, Washington, Wyoming).

Source:

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

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