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Chersodromia obscura Grootaert, Cumming & Shamshev 2007
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Description
Chersodromia obscura Grootaert, Cumming & Shamshev, 2007
Figs 41-43
Chersodromia obscura Grootaert, Cumming & Shamshev, 2007: 59.
Diagnosis
Pale yellow species belonging to the C. flavicaput group. Occiput dark yellowish in ground-colour. One pair of distinct vertical bristles. No acrostichals. Hind tibia with only 3 long bristles on apical half.
Distribution
Thailand.
Habitat and seasonal occurrence
River banks in bamboo forest, April.
Remarks
Chersodromia obscura differs from C. flavicaput in having only 3 long bristles on the hind tibia while the latter has 5 bristles. In addition C. obscura has a pair of distinct vertical bristles, no acrostichals, stronger male cerci, longer spines on left surstylus, and tip of phallus is less coiled.
Notes
Published as part of Grootaert, Patrick & Shamshev, Igor V., 2012, The fast-running flies (Diptera, Hybotidae, Tachydromiinae) of Singapore and adjacent regions, pp. 1-162 in European Journal of Taxonomy 5 on page 29, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2012.5, http://zenodo.org/record/3715167
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Hybotidae
- Genus
- Chersodromia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Grootaert, Cumming & Shamshev
- Species
- obscura
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chersodromia obscura Grootaert, 2007 sec. Grootaert & Shamshev, 2012
References
- Grootaert P., Cumming J. & Shamshev I. 2007. Non-marine Chersodromia Walker from Southeast Asia and Papua New Guinea (Diptera, Empidoidea, Hybotidae). Zootaxa 1661: 55 - 61.