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Sepsis fulgens Meigen, 1826

(Originally described as Musca)

Male

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Sepsis fulgens. Male alcohol-vouchered specimen.

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

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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 fulgens can be recognised in both sexes by having syntergite 1+2 without outstanding setulae posteriorly at sides, and, in the male, by having a ventral tubercle at apical quarter of fore femur with 2 slightly diverging spinules at its tip.

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 FULGENS Meigen 1826 (as Musca). United Kingdom: not stated [from title: ENGLAND]. Syntypes, sex not stated, presumed destroyed.

vibrans Harris 1780. England: not stated [from title: ENGLAND]. Syntypes, sex not stated, presumed destroyed. Junior primary homonym, preoccupied by Musca vibrans Linnaeus, 1758.

minima Harris 1780 (as Micropeza). Germany(?): not stated [probably GERMANY: Hamburg]. Lectotype ♂, by designation of Pont in Pont & Meier, 2002:165, in Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria. index [As subspecies of vibrans], Junior primary homonym, preoccupied by Musca vomitoria minima Harris, 1780.

fulgida Robineau-Desvoidy 1830 (as Micropeza). France(?): not stated [FRANCE, probably Saint-Sauveur]. Syntypes ♂♂ and ♀♀, presumed destroyed.

nitida Robineau-Desvoidy 1830 (as Micropeza). France(?): not stated [FRANCE, probably Saint-Sauveur]. Syntypes ♂♂ and ♀♀, presumed destroyed.

atripes Robineau-Desvoidy 1830. France: Saint-Sauveur. Syntypes ♂♂ and ♀♀, presumed destroyed.

concinna Walker 1833. England: near London. Syntypes ♀♀, presumed destroyed.

communis Frey 1925. Finland: Ab, Uskela. Lectotype ♂, by designation of Pont in Pont & Meier, 2002: 165, in Zoological Museum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. New name for cynipsea sensu Frey (1908: 583) and nigripes sensu Collin (1910: 175) [misidentifications].

tonsa Duda 1926. Various Localities: Mähren, österreich, Tirol, Polen, Ungarn, Albanien, Euböa, Kreta, Korfu, Kleinasien, Tunis, Algier. Syntypes ♂♂ and ♀♀, in Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt- Universität, Berlin, Germany, Magyar Természettudomanyi Museum Allattara, Budapest, Hungary.

fulvida. Incorrect subsequent spelling of fulgida Robineau-Desvoidy [Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 743].

Source:

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

Distribution

Palaearctic (Asia): Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Mongolia, Republic of Georgia, Russia (Altay,Chelyabinskaya Oblast’, Chitinskaya Oblast’, Kamchatskaya Oblast’, Krasnoyarskiy Kray,Novosibirskaya Oblast’, Sakha, Sakhalinskaya Oblast’, Tomskaya Oblast’, Tyumenskaya Oblast’), Syria, Tadzhikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

Palaearctic (Europe): Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France (incl. CorsicaI.), Germany, UK, Greece (incl. Corfu Is., Crete Is.), Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia(Alania, Arkhangel’skaya Oblast’, Bashkortostan, Belgorodskaya Oblast’, Bryanskaya Oblast’,Dagestan, Ivanovskaya Oblast’, Kaluzhskaya Oblast’, Komi, Krasnodarskiy Kray, KurskayaOblast’, Leningradskaya Oblast’, Lipetskaya Oblast’, Moskovskaya Oblast’, Murmanskaya Oblast’,Nizhegorodskaya Oblast’, Novgorodskaya Oblast’, Penzenskaya Oblast’, Permskaya Oblast’,Pskovskaya Oblast’, Rostovskaya Oblast’, Ryazanskaya Oblast’, Samarskaya Oblast’, SaratovskayaOblast’, Smolenskaya Oblast’, Stavropol’skiy Kray, Tverskaya Oblast’, Udmurtia, VladimirskayaOblast’, Volgogradskaya Oblast’, Voronezhskaya Oblast’, Yaroslavskaya Oblast’), Slovakia, Spain(incl. Balearic Is), Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, former Yugoslavia.

Palaearctic (North Africa): Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia.

Source:

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

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