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Themira minor (Haliday, 1833)

(Originally described as Sepsis)

Male

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Themira minor. 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 recognised by the absence of the postpronotal seta, pruinose katepisternum, and ornamentation of the male fore legs. The short but expanded posterior seta on tarsomere 4 of male mid leg is diagnostic for the species.

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 (Enicomira)

Synonyms

THEMIRA MINOR Haliday 1833 (as Sepsis). Ireland: stated [from title: IRELAND, Holywood]. Lectotype ♂, by designation of Pont in Pont & Meier, 2002: 86, in National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.

halidayi Curtis 1837 (as Sepsis). Nomen nudum.

dentimana Van der Wulp 1864. Netherlands: near Arnhem. Holotype ♂, presumed destroyed.

consobrina Van der Wulp 1871. Netherlands: den Haag and Zutphen. Syntypes ♂♂ and ♀♀, in Zoölogisch Museum, Universiteit van Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia terdam, Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia terdam, Netherlands.

Source:

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

Distribution

Palaearctic (Asia): Armenia, Japan (Hokkaido Is.), Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russia (Amurskaya Oblast’, Buryatia, Chitinskaya Oblast’, Krasnoyarskiy Kray, Novosibirskaya Oblast’, Omskaya Oblast’, Primorskiy Kray, Sakha, Sakhalinskaya Oblast’, Sverdlovskaya Oblast’, Tomskaya Oblast’), Syria, Tadzhikistan, Turkey.

Palaearctic (Europe): Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark (incl. Faroe Is), Finland, France (incl. Corsica Is.), Germany, UK, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Macedonia, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia (Alania, Belgorodskaya Oblast’, Ivanovskaya Oblast’, Leningradskaya Oblast’, Moskovskaya Oblast’, Murmanskaya Oblast’, Novgorodskaya Oblast’, Orenburgskaya Oblast’, Ryazanskaya Oblast’, Samarskaya Oblast’, Voronezhskaya Oblast’), Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, former Yugoslavia.

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

Nearctic: Canada (Alberta, British Columbia, Brunswick, Ontario, Quebeck, Saskatchewan), USA (Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming).

Source:

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

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