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Nothybus acrobates Frey 1958

  • 1. Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8901 - 3187
  • 2. Insect Systematics Lab, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, N 1 G 2 W 1, Ontario, Canada https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5732 - 9718
  • 3. Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China

Description

Nothybus acrobates Frey, 1958

(Figs 20–28)

Nothybus acrobates Frey, 1958: 38; Steyskal, 1977: 30; Lonsdale & Marshall, 2016: 14. Holotype (♀): Laos, ‘Muong Om’, UZMH.

Diagnosis. Frons (Figs 21–23) with two velvety black anterior patches. Ocellar tubercle blackish. Frons with narrow brownish stripe extending from ocellar tubercle to anterior third. Mesonotum (Fig. 24) with regularly 4 rows of acrostichal setulae in mid-longitudinal stripe. Wing (Fig. 25) uniformly dark brown from level of dm-cu to distal margin, except for clear spots in cells r 2+3 and r 4+5 and a diffuse patch in m 1; crossveins r-m and dm-cu surrounded by brown stripe; distal portion of veins R 2+3, R 4+5 and M 1, surrounded with large brown spots; distal part of CuA 1 subtended by elongate-oval dark brown area extending to dm-cu. Fore basitarsomere (Fig. 26) dark brown base and apex and median two thirds white.Abdominal tergites mostly dark yellow with dark brown markings on posteromedial and lateral margins (Figs 27–28).

Material examined. CHINA: 1♀, Yunnan, Lushui, Pianma (N24.124037°, E120.675028°), 25 Jul. 2012 – 10 Aug. 2012, leg. J. Wang (CAU).

Distribution. CHINA (Yunnan) [new record], LAOS, MYANMAR.

Remarks. This species is still known only from females and the material studied herein, differs from the redescription of Lonsdale & Marshall (2016) in the following characters: (i) head with narrow brownish stripe from ocellar tubercle to anterior third of frons; (ii) anepisternum dark brown with whitish dorsal stripe; (iii) katepisternum dark brown with whitish yellow spot at posterodorsal margin; (iv) mid coxa with anterior half dark brown and posterior half yellow; (v) hind coxa partially brown and yellow; (vi) mid and hind femora with diffuse brownish distomedial rings (Fig. 20); (vii) abdominal tergite 5 with broad dark brown area laterally, fusing to the posterome- dial brown spot; (viii) tergite 6 brownish yellow with narrow lateral area dark brown. Lonsdale & Marshall (2016) did not mention the color of palpus, however we note that it is dark brown, unlike other species in the genus except N. biguttatus Wulp, 1896.

Notes

Published as part of Zhou, Jiale, Marshall, Stephen A. & Yang, Ding, 2021, Synopsis of Nothybidae (Diptera: Brachycera) from China, with redescription of Nothybus absens Lonsdale & Marshall, pp. 201-223 in Zootaxa 4926 (2) on page 207, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4926.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4506019

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
CAU
Event date
2012-07-25
Family
Nothybidae
Genus
Nothybus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Frey
Species
acrobates
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2012-07-25/08-10
Taxonomic concept label
Nothybus acrobates Frey, 1958 sec. Zhou, Marshall & Yang, 2021

References

  • Frey, R. (1958) Studien uber ostasiatische Dipteren. VI. Nothybidae, Micropezidae, Opomyzidae. Notulae Entomologicae, 38, 37 - 50.
  • Steyskal, G. C. (1977) Family Nothybidae. In: Delfinado, M. C. & Hardy, D. E. (Eds.), A Catalog of the Diptera of the Oriental Region 3: Suborder Cyclorrhapha (Excluding Division Aschiza). University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu, pp. 30 - 31.
  • Lonsdale, O. & Marshall S. A. (2016) Revision of the family Nothybidae (Diptera: Schizophora). Zootaxa, 4098 (1), 1 - 42. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4098.1.1
  • Wulp, F. M. van der (1896) Aanteekeningen betreffende Oost-Indische Diptera. Tijdschrift Voor Entomologie, 39, 95 - 114, pl. 2.