Themira pusilla (Zetterstedt, 1847)

(Originally described as Sepsis)

Male

Themira pusilla. Male alcohol-vouchered specimen.

Deposited at: Evolutionary Biology Laboratory, National University of Singapore (Singapore)

Yuchen Ang

Diagnosis

Diagnostic illustrations for adults

Adapted from:

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

Adult pusilla is recognised among the species with postpronotal seta and pruinose katepisternum by the ornamentation of the male legs, especially fore legs and hind tibia.

Source:

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

Morphoglossary

Head Thorax Abdomen(Male)Abdomen(Female)

Taxonomy Information

Classification

Sepsidae: Sepsinae: "Lower sepsids": Themira

Synonyms

THEMIRA PUSILLA Zetterstedt 1847 (as Sepsis). Sweden: Lappmark, Åsele. ); Lectotype ♂, by designation of Pont in Pont & Meier, 2002: 93, in Zoological Museum, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden.

spinosa Verrall 1886. Nomen nudum.

spinosa Verrall 1886. Scotland: islands on Loch Maree. Lectotype ♂, by designation of Pont in Pont & Meier, 2002: 93, in Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford, UK.

incisurata Melander et Spuler 1917. Usa: washington, Orcas Island, Mt Constitution. Holotype ♂, 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): Mongolia, Russia (Kamchatskaya Oblast’, Krasnoyarskiy Kray, Tyumenskaya Oblast’).

Palaearctic (Europe): Finland, UK, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Russia (Karelia, Leningradskaya Oblast’, Moskovskaya Oblast’, Murmanskaya Oblast’), Sweden.

Nearctic: USA (Alaska, New York, Washington).

Source:

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

Diagnosis

Morphoglossary

Taxonomy Information

Classification

Synonyms

Distribution

External Links

Sepsidae