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Themira superba (Haliday, 1833)

(Originally described as Sepsis)

Male

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Themira superba. 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.

The adult is recognised by the glossy katepisternum and presence of a postpronotal seta, together with the highly ornamented male fore and hind legs.

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 (Nadezhdamira)

Synonyms

THEMIRA SUPERBA Haliday 1833 (as Sepsis). Ireland: Holywood. Lectotype ♂, by designation of Pont in Pont & Meier, 2002: 103, in National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.

ciliata Staeger 1844 (as Sepsis). Denmark: near Leersoen. Lectotype ♂, by designation of Pont in Pont & Meier, 2002: 103, in Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

fasciculata Duda 1926. Unavailable name; citation of a Meigen MS name, in synonymy with Enicita nigra and Themira superba.

nigra Duda 1926. Unavailable name; citation of a Meigen MS name, in synonymy with Enicita nigra and Themira superba.

Source:

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

Distribution

Palaearctic (Asia): Russia (Buryatia, Chelyabinskaya Oblast’, Irkutskaya Oblast’, Krasnoyarskiy Kray, Sakha).

Palaearctic (Europe): Belarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, UK, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia (Alania, Belgorodskaya Oblast’, Ivanovskaya Oblast’, Leningradskaya Oblast’, Moskovskaya Oblast’, Ryazanskaya Oblast’, Voronezhskaya Oblast’), Ukraine, Sweden, former Yugoslavia.

Source:

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

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