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Themira arctica (Becker, 1915)

(Originally described as Cheligaster)

Male

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Themira arctica. 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 male recognised by the partly shining katepisternum, presence of a postpronotal seta, and simple apical setae on mid tibia. It is most similar to ringdahli Pont, sp. n. and best recognised by the features given in the key (Pont and Meier, 2002, p. 58).

Source:

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

Morphoglossary

HeadThoraxAbdomen(Male)Abdomen(Female)

Taxonomy Information

Classification

Sepsidae: Sepsinae: "Lower sepsids": Themira

Synonyms

THEMIRA ARCTICA Becker 1915 (as Cheligaster). Russia: polaren Ural [Ural Mts, north of Tyumenskaya Oblast’]. Holotype ♂, in Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia.

dampfi Becker 1915. Denmark: Faroe IslandLectotype ♂, by designation of Pont in Pont & Meier, 2002: 67 [not Hennig, 1949], in Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt- Universität, Berlin, Germany.

Source:

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

Distribution

Palaearctic (Asia): Russia (Krasnoyarskiy Kray, Tyumenskaya Oblast’).

Palaearctic (Europe): Finland, Denmark (Faroe Is), Ireland, Norway, Sweden.

Nearctic: Canada (Northwest Territories, Labrador), Greenland.

Source:

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

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