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Themira lucida (Staeger, 1844)

(Originally described as Sepsis)

Male

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Themira lucida. 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.

Amongst the species with postpronotal seta and pruinose katepisternum, adult lucida is best recognised by the wholly dark legs, glossy scutum and, in the male, by characters of the fore legs and genitalia.

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 LUCIDA Staeger 1844 (as Sepsis). Denmark: Amager IslandLectotype ♂, by designation of Pont in Pont & Meier, 2002: 81, in Zoological Museum, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden.

roseni Becker 1915. Denmark: Faroe Is., Sand. Lectotype ♀, by designation of Pont in Pont & Meier, 2002: 81, in Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt- Universität, Berlin, Germany.

athabasca Mangan 1976. Usa: Alaska, Yukon River, Circle. Holotype ♀ [not ♂ as in description], in National Museum of Natural History, Washington, USA.

Source:

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

Distribution

Palaearctic (Asia): Russia (Altay, Chelyabinskaya Oblast’, Krasnoyarskiy Kray, Primorskiy Kray, Sakha, Sakhalinskaya Oblast’, Tomskaya Oblast’).

Palaearctic (Europe): Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark (incl. Faroe Is), Estonia, Finland, Germany, UK, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia (Alania, Arkhangel’skaya Oblast’, Belgorodskaya Oblast’, Leningradskaya Oblast’, Moskovskaya Oblast’, Ryazanskaya Oblast’, Udmurtia), Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, former Yugoslavia.

Palaearctic (North Africa): Algeria.

Nearctic: USA (Alaska, Maryland).

Source:

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

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