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Themira simplicipes (Duda, 1926)

(Originally described as Enicita)

Male

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Themira simplicipes. Male lectotype specimen.

Deposited at:  Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt- Universität, Berlin (Germany)

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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 apical scutellar seta, and also by the absence of a postpronotal seta and the wholly pruinose katepisternum and anepimeron.

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 (Enicita)

Synonyms

THEMIRA SIMPLICIPES Duda 1926 (as Enicita). Romania & Hungary: Berzáska (ROMANIA) and Ugod (HUNGARY). Syntypes 2 ♂♂ [not Lectotype by designation of Hennig as in Pont in Pont & Meier, 2002: 99, 101], 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 (Europe): Hungary, Romania, Russia (Alania, Krasnodarskiy Kray).

Source:

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

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