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Sepsis orthocnemis Frey, 1908

Male

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Sepsis orthocnemis. 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 orthocnemis can be recognised by the pattern of pruinosity on anepimeron, where a diagonal line separates the pruinose and shining areas, and in the male by the presence of two ventrally-directed and usually diverging spinules in apical third of fore femur.

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 ORTHOCNEMIS Frey 1908. Finland: Kangasala. Lectotype ♂, by designation of Pont in Pont & Meier, 2002: 176, in Zoological Museum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

Source:

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

Distribution

Oriental: Pakistan.

Palaearctic (Asia): Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Republic of Georgia, Russia (Altay, Amurskaya Oblast’, Chelyabinskaya Oblast’, Chitinskaya Oblast’, Irkutskaya Oblast’, Kamchatskaya Oblast’, Krasnoyarskiy Kray, Magadanskaya Oblast’, Novosibirskaya Oblast’, Sakha, Tomskaya Oblast’, Tyumenskaya Oblast’), Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

Palaearctic (Europe): Austria, Belarus, 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’skaya Oblast’, Belgorodskaya Oblast’, Bryanskaya Oblast’, Ivanovskaya Oblast’, Krasnodarskiy Kray, Leningradskaya Oblast’, Lipetskaya Oblast’, Moskovskaya Oblast’, Murmanskaya Oblast’, Novgorodskaya Oblast’, Pskovskaya Oblast’, Ryazanskaya Oblast’, Samarskaya Oblast’, Saratovskaya Oblast’, Smolenskaya Oblast’, Stavropol’skiy Kray, Vladimirskaya Oblast’, Volgogradskaya Oblast’, Yaroslavskaya Oblast’), Slovakia, Turkey, Ukraine, Sweden, Switzerland, former Yugoslavia.

Palaearctic (North Africa): Algeria.

Source:

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

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