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Sepsis nigripes Meigen, 1826

Male

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Sepsis nigripes. 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 neocynipsea is very similar to cynipsea, having katepisternum wholly pruinose and meron glossy on posterior half, but it has male fore tibia with a ventral swelling, not incision , and female mid femur usually with a submedian anterior seta.

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 NIGRIPES Meigen 1826. Germany (?): not stated [probably GERMANY: Hamburg]. Lectotype ♂, by designation of Pont in Pont & Meier, 2002: 173, in Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.

Sepsis minima Strobl 1893. Austria: Styria sup., Admont. Holotype ♂, in Naturhistorisches Museum der Benediktiner- Abtei, Admont, Austria.

Source:

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

Distribution

Palaearctic (Asia): Japan (Hokkaido Is.), Mongolia, Russia (Krasnoyarskiy Kray, Novosibirskaya Oblast’, Primorskiy Kray), Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

Palaearctic (Europe): Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, UK, Hungary, Poland, Russia (Belgorodskaya Oblast’, Lipetskaya Oblast’, Moskovskaya Oblast’), Sweden.

Source:

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

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