taxonID	type	description	language	source
7F5B6E2AF15C2F3B74D0B8E5A0BB9E71.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Body length only 7 – 10 mm. Cell r 4 with a very small gray spot apically; hyaline part of cells cu-a 1, cup, and a small; cell a very small subtriangular. Epandrium three times wider than high in posterior view; distiphallus rather narrow and long in lateral view.	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF15C2F3B74D0B8E5A0BB9E71.taxon	description	Description. Male. Body length 7 – 10 mm, wing length 6 – 12 mm. Head black with gray pollen; ocellar tubercle black. Hairs on head mostly black; frons with erect long black hairs; face with dense black hairs and sparse yellow hairs; occiput with sparse black hairs and a row of erect black hairs on the edge; ocellar tubercle with six long black hairs. Antenna black except first flagellomere brown; scape long cylindrical, two times longer than wide, with rows of long, black hairs on both sides; pedicel nearly as long as wide, with sparse black hairs; first flagellomere onion-shaped, bare. Antennal ratio: 3: 2: 9. Proboscis dark brown with black hairs; palpus brown with black hairs. Thorax black with brown pollen. Hairs on thorax white, black, and yellow, bristles black; postpronotal lobe with black and yellow long hairs, mesonotum with row of yellow long hairs at anterior margin and three long black lateral bristles near base of wing, postalar callus with two black bristles. Scutellum with yellow or black sparse long hairs. Legs brown with yellow scales and gray pollen. Hairs on legs mostly black, bristles black. Femora with long black hairs; tibiae with some short yellow hairs; tarsi with some short black hairs. Mid femur with three av apically; hind femur with three av apically. Mid tibia with four ad, seven pd, five av and six pv; hind tibia with eight ad, six pd, seven av and six pv. Femora and tibiae with yellow scales except fore tibia. Wing (Fig. 1) half infuscate; hyaline part including almost entire cell r 4, most part of cells m 1 and m 2, part of cells r 2 + 3, r 5, dm, and cu-a 1, and little part of cells r 1, cup, and a; cell r 4 with a very small gray spot apically, infuscate part of cell r 5 reaching cell m 1, hyaline part of cell r 1 subquadrate. Halteres brown, except knob pale. Abdomen black with brown pollen. Hairs on abdomen white, black and yellow; dorsum with long dense black hairs laterally except tergites 1, 4, and 7 with white hairs laterally; dorsum with black and recumbent hairs except tergites 1, 4, and 7 with white recumbent hairs, tergites 5 – 8 with a small mid-posterior area bare; tergites 9 – 10 with black hairs. Sternites with yellow recumbent hairs and erect black hairs. Male genitalia (Figs. 11 – 16). Epandrium subquadrate, three times longer than high, and with distinct lateral extension at base in lateral view, epandrium three times wider than high in posterior view; gonocoxa with more or less narrowing apical portion uniformly wide, and with a rather narrow middle incision apically and apico-lateral lobes somewhat acute apically in ventral view; gonostylus with a basal process, its acute tip strongly curved in lateral view; epiphallus slightly narrowed at middle, with an unclear line at middle beyond tip of distiphallus, distiphallus long in dorsal view, distiphallus rather narrow and long in lateral view. Female. Body length 6 – 7 mm, wing length 7 – 9 mm. Similar to male, but wing infuscate part of cell m 1 larger, and extending to cell m 2, abdominal tergites with sparse hairs.	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF15C2F3B74D0B8E5A0BB9E71.taxon	materials_examined	Type material. Holotype male, CHINA: Inner Mongolia, Azuoqi, 7. VII. 2007, Gang Yao; Paratypes 1 male, 2 females, CHINA: Ningxia, Tongxin, 13. VII. 2007, Gang Yao.	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF15C2F3B74D0B8E5A0BB9E71.taxon	distribution	Distribution. China (Inner Mongolia).	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF15C2F3B74D0B8E5A0BB9E71.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species is named after the character of distiphallus narrow and long.	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF15C2F3B74D0B8E5A0BB9E71.taxon	discussion	Remarks. The new species is similar to H. hamifera (Loew), but it can be separated from the latter by the hyaline part of cells cu-a 1, cup, and a smaller, cell a very small and subtriangular, and cell r 4 with a very small gray spot apically; distiphallus rather narrow and long in lateral view. In H. hamifera, the hyaline part of cells cu-a 1, cup, and a is rather large, and the hyaline part of cell a nearly as long as the infuscate part; the distiphallus is wider and shorter than that in H. apiculata (Zaitzev, 1966). The new species is also similar to H. nitidofasciata (Portschinsky), but it can be separated from the latter by wing with infuscate in cell r 5 not extended beyond m-m, the distiphallus distinctly long more than half the length of epiphallus in dorsal view. In H. nitidofasciata, wing with infuscate in cell r 5 distinctly extended beyond m-m; the distiphallus less than half the length of epiphallus, also smaller and short than that in H. apiculata.	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF15A2F3A74D0B8E5A2E098EE.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Hyaline part of cell r 1 crescent-shaped; hyaline apical part of cell cu-a 1 small, subtriangular. Epiphallus narrowed at middle, with a half unclear line apically; distiphallus subquadrate in dorsal view, long and slightly narrowing apically in lateral view.	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF15A2F3A74D0B8E5A2E098EE.taxon	description	Description. Male. Body length 6 – 13 mm, wing length 7 – 14 mm. Head black; ocellar tubercle dark brown. Hairs on head black or yellow; frons with erect black hairs and sparse yellow recumbent hairs; face with dense black and yellow hairs; occiput with sparse black and yellow hairs and a row of erect blackish hairs on the edge; ocellar tubercle with six black hairs. Antenna brown; scape long cylindrical, two times longer than wide, with rows of long, black hairs on both sides; pedicel nearly as long as wide, with sparse black hairs; first flagellomere onion-shaped, brownish, bare. Antennal ratio: 5: 2: 10. Proboscis brown with yellow and black hairs; palpus yellowish brown with black and yellow hairs. Thorax black with brown pollen. Hairs on thorax mostly yellow, bristles on thorax black or yellow; hairs on postpronotal lobe yellow, mesonotum with row of long yellow hairs along anterior margin and three long black lateral bristles near base of wing; laterotergite with a pile of yellowish hairs; postalar callus with three yellow bristles. Scutellum with yellow or black sparse long hairs. Legs black except tibiae yellow. Hairs on legs mostly black, bristles black. Femora with long black hairs; tibiae with short black hairs; tarsi with some short black hairs. Mid femur with three av apically; hind femur with three av apically. Mid tibia with nine ad, nine pd, six av and six pv; hind tibia with 12 ad, 12 pd, nine av and nine pv. Femora and tibiae with yellow scales. Wing (Fig. 2) half infuscate; hyaline part including entire cells r 4, most part of cells r 2 + 3, r 5, m 1, m 2, dm, and cu-a 1, and little part of cells cup, a, and r 1; hyaline part of cell r 1 crescent-shaped; hyaline apical part of cell a very small, subtriangular. Halteres black; knob pale. Abdomen black with brown pollen. Hairs on abdomen yellowish and black; dorsum with long dense yellowish hairs laterally except tergites 1, 4, and 7; dorsum with black recumbent hairs, tergite 4 with a small mid-posterior area bare; tergites 9 – 10 with yellowish hairs. Sternites with yellow recumbent hairs and erect black hairs. Male genitalia (Figs. 17 – 22). Epandrium subquadrate, twice longer than high, and with small lateral extension at base in lateral view, epandrium twice wider than high in posterior view; gonocoxa more or less narrowing posteriorly, with a rather narrow middle incision apically and apicolateral lobes somewhat acute apically in ventral view; gonostylus with a basal process, its acute tip strongly curved in lateral view; epiphallus nearly semicircular apically, distinctly narrowed at middle, with a line half unclear apically; distiphallus curved in dorsal view, but long, slightly narrowing apically in lateral view. Female. Unknown.	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF15A2F3A74D0B8E5A2E098EE.taxon	materials_examined	Type material. Holotype male, CHINA: Beijing, Xiaolongmen, 14. VIII. 2007, Gang Yao. Paratypes 4 males, the same as holotype; 2 males, CHINA: Hebei, Yangjiaping, 12. VIII. 2007, Gang Yao; 1 male, CHINA: Hebei, Yangjiaping, 11. VIII. 2007, Gang Yao; 1 male, CHINA: Hebei, Wulingshan, 24. VIII. 2007, Kuiyan Zhang.	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF15A2F3A74D0B8E5A2E098EE.taxon	distribution	Distribution. China (Beijing, Hebei).	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF15A2F3A74D0B8E5A2E098EE.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species is named after the type locality Beijing.	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF15A2F3A74D0B8E5A2E098EE.taxon	discussion	Remarks. The new species is similar to H. mesasiatica (Zaitzev), but it can be separated from the latter by the hyaline part of cell cu-a 1 smaller, the epiphallus distinctly narrowing at middle, and the distiphallus subquadrate in dorsal view. In H. mesasiatica, the hyaline apical part of cell cu-a 1 is rather large, more than half of the infuscate part; the epiphallus is slightly narrowing at middle, and the distiphallus is subtriangular in dorsal view (Zaitzev, 1962).	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF1582F3874D0B8E5A291980C.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Cell r 2 + 3 without an apical spot; entire cell of r 4 hyaline. Abdominal dorsum (except tergites 1 and 4) with long dense black hairs laterally; sternite 1 with long white hairs. Epiphallus narrowing near base, apically with a clear curve line, distiphallus subtriangular in dorsal view.	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF1582F3874D0B8E5A291980C.taxon	description	Description. Male. Body length 11 mm, wing length 12 mm. Head black with gray pollen except occiput with brown pollen; ocellar tubercle reddish. Hairs on head black or yellow; frons with long black hairs; face with yellow and dense black hairs; occiput with sparse black hairs and a row of erect brown hairs on the edge; ocellar tubercle with four black hairs. Antenna brown; scape long cylindrical, three times longer than wide, with rows of long black hairs on both sides; pedicel nearly as long as wide, with sparse black hairs; first flagellomere onion-shaped, brownish, bare. Antennal ratio: 3: 1: 5. Proboscis dark brown with yellow hairs; palpus yellowish with long, blackish hairs. Thorax black with gray pollen except scutellum with brown pollen. Hairs on thorax mostly yellow and white; bristles on thorax black and yellow; postpronotal lobe with long white hairs, mesonotum with row of long yellow hairs along anterior margin and three long black lateral bristles near base of wing; laterotergite with a pile of yellow hairs. Scutellum with sparse long black hairs. Legs brown except tarsi black. Hairs on legs yellow and black, bristles black. Femora with long black hairs; tibiae with bristle-like hairs and some short yellow hairs; tarsi with some short yellow hairs. Mid femur with two av apically; hind femur with two av apically. Mid tibia with seven ad, seven pd, six av and eight pv; hind tibia with 10 ad, nine pd, seven av and eight pv. Hind femur with yellow scales; mid and hind tibiae with yellow scales. Wing (Fig. 3) half infuscate; hyaline part including entire cell r 4, most part of cells r 2 + 3, r 5, dm, cu-a 1, m 1 and m 2, and little part of cells cup, a, and r 1; hyaline part of cell r 1 nearly semicircular; hyaline apical part of cell a small, subtriangular. Halteres brown; knob pale. Abdomen black with brown pollen. Hairs on abdomen white and black; dorsum with long dense black hairs laterally except tergites 1 and 4 with white hairs; dorsum with black recumbent hairs, tergites 2 – 6 with a small mid-posterior area bare; tergites 9 – 10 with black hairs. Sternites with yellow recumbent hairs and erect black hairs except sternite 1 with long white hairs. Male genitalia (Figs. 23 – 28). Epandrium subquadrate, nearly as long as wide, and with distinct lateral extension at base in lateral view, epandrium slightly higher than long in posterior view; gonocoxite with slightly narrow apical portion, with a V-shaped middle incision apically in dorsal view and apicolateral lobes somewhat acute apically in ventral view; gonostylus with a basal process, its acute tip strongly curved in lateral view; epiphallus narrowing near base, with a clear curve line apically, distiphallus subtriangular in dorsal view, distiphallus with an acute tip in lateral view. Female. Body length 9 mm, wing length 9 – 11 mm. Similar to male, but cell r 2 + 3 with a dark spot apically.	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF1582F3874D0B8E5A291980C.taxon	materials_examined	Type material. Holotype male, CHINA: Inner Mongolia, Bayannaoer, 14. VII. 1978, Heming Chen. Paratypes 2 females, CHINA: Inner Mongolia, Bayannaoer, 14. VII. 1978, Heming Chen.	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF1582F3874D0B8E5A291980C.taxon	distribution	Distribution. China (Inner Mongolia).	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF1582F3874D0B8E5A291980C.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species is named after the name of collector Heming Chen.	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF1582F3874D0B8E5A291980C.taxon	discussion	Remarks. The new species is similar to H. tushetica (Zaitzev), but it can be separated from the latter by the entire cell of r 4 hyaline and cell r 2 + 3 without infuscate spot apically in male; the epiphallus narrowing near base, and the distiphallus subtriangular in dorsal view. In H. tushetica, cell of r 2 + 3 has a dark spot apically, cell of r 4 has a infuscate spot basally; the epiphallus is not narrowing, and the distiphallus is subquadrate in dorsal view (Zaitzev, 1966).	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF1572F3574D0BED0A0D69A05.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Cell bm with a gray spot apically, infuscate part extending from cell m 1 into cell m 2. Gonocoxa more or less narrowing backward, with a large V-shaped middle incision apically. Epiphallus nearly quadrate, but slightly narrowing near base; distiphallus subtriangular in dorsal view.	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF1572F3574D0BED0A0D69A05.taxon	description	Description. Male. Body length 8 – 11 mm, wing length 9 – 12 mm. Head black with gray pollen; ocellar tubercle reddish brown. Hairs on head black or yellow; frons with recumbent yellow hairs and erect long black hairs; face with dense black and yellow hairs; occiput with sparse yellow hairs and a row of erect yellow hairs on the edge; ocellar tubercle with four long black hairs. Antenna black except first flagellomere brown; scape long cylindrical, two times longer than wide, with long black bristle-like hairs; pedicel nearly as long as wide, with sparse black hairs; first flagellomere onion-shaped, brownish, bare. Antennal ratio: 2: 1: 3. Proboscis dark brown with black hairs; palpus dark brown with black hairs. Thorax black with brown pollen. Hairs on thorax mostly white, bristles black or yellow; postpronotal lobe with white and yellow long hairs, mesonotum with row of yellow long hairs at anterior margin and three long black lateral bristles near base of wing, postalar callus with three yellow bristles. Scutellum with yellow or black sparse long hairs. Legs brown with yellow scales and gray pollen. Hairs on legs mostly black, bristles black. Femora with long black hairs; fore tibia with some short yellow hairs; fore tarsus with some short yellow hairs, mid and hind tarsi with short black hairs. Mid femur with three av apically; hind femur with three av apically. Mid tibia with 6 – 8 ad, 7 – 8 pd, 6 – 8 av and 6 – 8 pv; hind tibia with 9 – 12 ad, 7 – 10 pd, 7 – 10 av and 6 – 9 pv. Femora and tibiae with yellow scales except fore tibia. Wing (Fig. 4) half infuscate; hyaline part including entire cell r 4, most part of cells m 1, m 2 and cu-a 1, part of cells r 2 + 3, r 5, dm, cup, and a, and little part of cell r 1; cell bm with a gray spot apically, infuscate part of cell r 2 + 3 extended to cell r 4, infuscate part extending from cell m 1 into cell m 2. Halteres brown, except knob pale. Abdomen black with brown pollen. Hairs on abdomen white, black and yellow; dorsum with long dense black hairs laterally except tergites 1 and 4 with white hairs laterally; dorsum with black and yellow recumbent hairs except tergite 1 bare and tergites 4 and 6 with white and yellow recumbent hairs, tergites 5 – 7 with a small mid-posterior area bare; tergites 9 – 10 with white and black hairs. Sternites with yellow recumbent hairs and erect black hairs. Male genitalia (Figs. 29 – 34). Epandrium subquadrate, distinctly longer than high, and with distinct lateral extension at base in lateral view, epandrium twice higher than wide in posterior view; gonocoxa narrowing posteriorly, with a large V-shaped middle incision apically and apicolateral lobes somewhat acute apically in ventral view; gonostylus with a basal process, its acute tip strongly curved in lateral view; epiphallus nearly quadrate, but slightly narrowing near base, with a clear W-shaped line apically, distiphallus subtriangular in dorsal view, distiphallus narrowing apically. Female. Body length 10 – 12 mm, wing length 10 – 12 mm. Similar to male, but infuscate part of cell r 2 + 3 extended to cell r 4, and infuscate part of cell m 2 little bigger, scutellum with yellow hairs, abdominal tergites 2 and 3 with yellow hairs. Specimens examined. 4 males, 10 females, CHINA: Inner Mongolia, Helanshan National Nature Reserve, 0 7. VII. 2007, Gang Yao; 5 males, 3 females, CHINA: Inner Mongolia, Helanshan National Nature Reserve, 0 8. VII. 2007, Gang Yao; 1 male, 1 female, CHINA: Inner Mongolia, Helanshan National Nature Reserve, 0 9. VII. 2007, Gang Yao; 1 male, CHINA: Ningxia, Luoshan National Nature Reserve, 12. VII. 2007, Gang Yao; 1 male, CHINA: Ningxia, Luoshan National Nature Reserve, 13. VII. 2007, Gang Yao; 1 male, CHINA: Inner Mongolia, Zhengxiangbaiqi, 14. VIII. 1978, Jikun Yang.	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF1572F3574D0BED0A0D69A05.taxon	distribution	Distribution. China (Jiangsu, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Xinjiang).	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF1552F3374D0BDBCA04C9B7D.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Cell r 2 + 3 without apical spot; hyaline apical part of cell cu-a 1 very small, subtriangular, 1 / 5 as long as infuscate part. Abdominal dorsum with long dense black hairs laterally except tergites 1, 4, and 7 with yellowish hairs. Epiphallus distinctly constricted near base, with a clear W-shaped line apically, distiphallus subtriangular in dorsal view.	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF1552F3374D0BDBCA04C9B7D.taxon	description	Description. Male. Body length 12 – 13 mm, wing length 13 – 17 mm. Head black; ocellar tubercle black. Hairs on head black or yellow; hairs on frons mostly black; face with dense black and yellow hairs; occiput with sparse black and yellow hairs, and a row of erect yellowish brown hairs on the edge; ocellar tubercle with five long black hairs. Antenna black; scape long cylindrical, three times longer than wide, with rows of long black hairs on both sides; pedicel nearly as long as wide, with black hairs; first flagellomere onion-shaped, brown, bare. Antennal ratio: 3: 1: 5. Proboscis brown with yellow and black hairs; palpus dark brown with black hairs. Thorax black with brown pollen. Hairs on thorax mostly yellowish, bristles on thorax black; postpronotal lobe with black and yellow long hairs, mesonotum with row of dark yellow long hairs at anterior margin and four long black lateral bristles near base of wing; laterotergite with a pile of yellow hairs; postalar callus with four yellow bristles. Scutellum with black sparse long hairs. Legs black. Hairs on legs mostly black, bristles black. Femora with long black hairs; tibiae with bristle-like hairs and some short yellow hairs; tarsi with short bristle-like hairs. Mid femur with three av apically; hind femur with five av apically. Mid tibia with nine ad, 10 pd, seven av and eight pv; hind tibia with 23 ad, 13 pd, 12 av and 15 pv. Femora and tibiae of mid and hind with yellow scales. Wing (Figs. 5) half infuscate, partly hyaline; hyaline part including entire cell r 4, most part of cells r 5, r 2 + 3, m 1, m 2, dm, and cu-a 1, and little part of cells cup, a and r 1; hyaline part of cell r 1 subquadrate; hyaline apical part of cell a very small, subtriangular. Halteres brownish yellow; knob pale. Abdomen black. Hairs on abdomen yellowish and black; dorsum with long dense black hairs laterally except tergites 1, 4, and 7 with yellowish hairs; dorsum with black hairs, tergites 1 and 4 with yellowish hairs; tergites 9 – 10 with black hairs. Sternites with yellow recumbent hairs and black erect hairs. Male genitalia (Figs. 35 – 40). Epandrium subquadrate, a little longer than high, and with distinct lateral extension at base in lateral view, epandrium almost as wide as high in posterior view; gonocoxa slightly narrow apically, with a narrow middle incision apically and apicolateral lobes somewhat acute apically in ventral view; gonostylus with a basal process, its acute tip strongly curved in lateral view; epiphallus distinctly constricted near base, with a clear W-shaped line apically, distiphallus subtriangular in dorsal view, distiphallus narrowing apically and with an acute tip. Female. Body length 13 mm, wing length 13 mm. Similar to male, but wing infuscate part of cells m 1 and m 2 larger, abdominal tergite 6 with yellowish hairs.	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF1552F3374D0BDBCA04C9B7D.taxon	materials_examined	Type material. Holotype male, CHINA: Hebei, Yangjiaping, 13. VIII. 2007, Gang Yao. Paratypes 6 males, 1 female, same as holotype.	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF1552F3374D0BDBCA04C9B7D.taxon	distribution	Distribution. China (Hebei).	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF1552F3374D0BDBCA04C9B7D.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species is named after the type locality Hebei.	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF1552F3374D0BDBCA04C9B7D.taxon	discussion	Remarks. The new species is similar to H. tusheticus (Zaitzev), but it can be separated from the latter by the hyaline apical part of cell cu-a 1 smaller, subtriangular, 1 / 5 as long as the infuscate part, and the epiphallus distinctly constricted near base, and the distiphallus subtriangular in dorsal view. In H. tusheticus, the hyaline apical part of cell cu-a 1 is larger, nearly 1 / 3 as long as the infuscate part, the epiphallus is slightly tumid at middle, and the distiphallus is subquadrate (Zaitzev, 1966).	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF1532F3174D0BC14A0679C2A.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Cell r 4 entirely hyaline, hyaline part of cell r 1 nearly semicircular; hyaline apical part of cell a very small, subtriangular. Postalar callus with three black bristles. Epiphallus slightly constricted at middle; distiphallus narrow and long, subtriangular in dorsal view.	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF1532F3174D0BC14A0679C2A.taxon	description	Description. Male. Body length 9 mm, wing length 9 mm. Head black with grey pollen; ocellar tubercle reddish. Hairs on head mostly black; frons with long erect black hairs; face with dense long black hairs; occiput with sparse black hairs, and a row of erect brown hairs on the edge; ocellar tubercle with two black hairs. Antenna black; scape long cylindrical, two times longer than wide, with rows of long, black hairs on both sides; pedicel nearly as long as wide, with sparse black hairs; first flagellomere onion-shaped, bare. Antennal ratio: 2: 1: 3. Proboscis brown with yellow hairs; palpus yellowish brown with long black hairs. Thorax black with brown pollen. Hairs on thorax mostly yellow, bristles on thorax black; hairs on postpronotal lobe yellow or black, mesonotum with row of long, yellow and black hairs along anterior margin and three long black lateral bristles near base of wing; laterotergite with a pile of yellowish hairs; postalar callus with three black bristles. Scutellum with sparse long black hairs. Legs brown except tarsi black. Hairs on legs mostly black, bristles black. Femora with long black hairs; tibiae with short black hairs; tarsi with some short black hairs. Mid femur with two av apically; hind femur with three av apically. Mid tibia with six ad, eight pd, six av and eight pv; hind tibia with nine ad, eight pd, eight av and 12 pv. Wing (Fig. 6) half infuscate; hyaline part including entire cell r 4, most part of cells r 2 + 3, r 5, m 1, m 2, dm, and cu-a 1, and little part of cells r 1, cup and a; hyaline part of cell r 1 nearly semicircular; hyaline apical part of cell a very small, subtriangular. Halteres brown; knob pale. Abdomen black with brown pollen. Hairs on abdomen yellowish and black; dorsum with long dense black hairs laterally except tergites 1 and 4; dorsum with short black recumbent hairs, tergite 5 with a small midposterior area bare; tergite 8 with yellowish hairs, tergites 9 – 10 with black hairs. Sternites with recumbent yellow hairs and erect black hairs. Male genitalia (Figs. 41 – 46). Epandrium subquadrate, nearly twice longer than high, and with distinct lateral extension at base in lateral view, epandrium nearly as wide as high in posterior view; gonocoxite narrowing posteriorly, with a rather narrow middle incision apically and apicolateral lobes somewhat acute apically in ventral view; gonostylus with a basal process, its acute tip curved in lateral view; epiphallus slightly constricted at middle, distiphallus narrow and long, subtriangular in dorsal view, slightly narrowing apically. Female. Unknown. Specimens examined. 1 male, CHINA: Beijing, Wulingshan, 4. X. 2006, Gang Yao; 1 male, CHINA: Beijing, Wulingshan, 24. VII. 2007, Kuiyan Zhang.	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF1532F3174D0BC14A0679C2A.taxon	distribution	Distribution. China (Beijing, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang).	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF1512F2F74D0BBCFA2519D6A.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Hyaline part of cell r 1 nearly semicircular; hyaline apical part of cell a small, subtriangular. Epandrium slightly longer than high in posterior view; epiphallus distinctly curved at middle, distiphallus narrow and long, subtriangular in dorsal view.	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF1512F2F74D0BBCFA2519D6A.taxon	description	Description. Male. Body length 7 – 10 mm, wing length 7 – 11 mm. Head black with gray pollen; ocellar tubercle reddish brown. Hairs on head black or yellow; frons with recumbent yellow hairs and erect black hairs; face with dense black and yellow hairs; occiput with sparse black and yellow hairs, and a row of erect blackish hairs on the edge; ocellar tubercle with seven black long hairs. Antenna yellowish brown; scape long cylindrical, three times longer than wide, with rows of long black hairs on both sides; pedicel nearly as long as wide, with sparse black hairs; first flagellomere onion-shaped, brownish, bare. Antennal ratio: 7: 2: 11. Proboscis dark brown with yellow and black hairs; palpus yellowish brown with black hairs. Thorax black with brown pollen. Hairs on thorax yellowish and black, bristles on thorax black; hairs on postpronotal lobe mostly yellowish, mesonotum with row of long, yellow hairs along anterior margin and two long black lateral bristles near base of wing; laterotergite with a pile of yellowish hairs; postalar callus with three yellow bristles. Scutellum with yellow or black sparse long hairs. Legs black except tibiae yellow. Hairs on legs mostly black, bristles black. Femora with long black hairs; tibiae with short black hairs; tarsi with some short black hairs. Mid femur with three av apically; hind femur with three av apically. Mid tibia with seven ad, eight pd, seven av and 12 pv; hind tibia with 15 ad, 12 pd, eight av and 10 pv. Mid and hind tibiae with yellow scales. Wing (Fig. 7) half infuscate; hyaline part including entire cells r 4 and m 1, most part of cells r 2 + 3, r 5, m 2, dm, and cu-a 1, and little part of cells cup, a and r 1; hyaline part of cell r 1 nearly semicircular; hyaline apical part of cell a very small, subtriangular. Halteres black; knob pale. Abdomen black with brown pollen. Hairs on abdomen yellowish and black; dorsum with long dense yellowish hairs laterally except tergites 1, 4, and 7; dorsum with black recumbent hairs, tergites 4 and 6 with a small mid-posterior area bare; tergites 9 – 10 with yellowish hairs. Sternites with yellow recumbent hairs and black erect hairs. Male genitalia (Figs. 47 – 52). Epandrium subquadrate, nearly twice longer than high, and with distinct lateral extension at base in lateral view, epandrium slightly wider than high in posterior view; gonocoxa more or less narrowing backward, with a rather narrow middle incision apically and apicolateral lobes somewhat acute apically in ventral view; gonostylus without basal process, its apex acute and with a small V-shaped incision in lateral view; epiphallus distinctly curved at middle, with a clear curve line apically, distiphallus narrow and long, subtriangular in dorsal view, distiphallus distinctly narrowing apically in lateral view. Female. Unknown.	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF1512F2F74D0BBCFA2519D6A.taxon	materials_examined	Type material. Holotype male, CHINA: Inner Mongolia, Azuoqi, 7. VII. 2007, Gang Yao. Paratypes 4 males, the same as holotype; 2 males, CHINA: Inner Mongolia, Azuoqi, 8. VII. 2007, Gang Yao.	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF1512F2F74D0BBCFA2519D6A.taxon	distribution	Distribution. China (Inner Mongolia).	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF1512F2F74D0BBCFA2519D6A.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species is named after the type locality Inner Mongolia.	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF1512F2F74D0BBCFA2519D6A.taxon	discussion	Remarks. The new species is similar to H. mesasiatica (Zaitzev), but it can be separated from the latter by the hyaline part of cell cu-a 1 smaller and the epiphallus distinctly curved at middle with a clear curve line in dorsal view. In H. mesasiatica, the hyaline apical part of cell cu-a 1 is rather large, more than half of the infuscate part, and the epiphallus is slightly curved at middle with a clear almost straight line in dorsal view (Zaitzev, 1962).	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF14F2F2D74D0BA0FA7779EA6.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Wing infuscate part at costal margin reaching curved tip of r 2 + 3; cell r 2 + 3 hyaline apically. Abdominal tergites 1, 4, 6, and 7 with yellow long hairs. Epiphallus narrowing at middle, with a clear middle straight line apically; distiphallus long, subtriangular, and with an acute tip in dorsal view.	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF14F2F2D74D0BA0FA7779EA6.taxon	description	Description. Male. Body length 11 – 12 mm, wing length 12 – 14 mm. Head black; ocellar tubercle reddish brown. Hairs on head black or yellow; frons with black erect hairs and yellow recumbent hairs; face with dense hairs mostly black; occiput with black and yellow hairs, and a row of erect brown hairs on the edge; ocellar tubercle with five long black hairs. Antenna black except first flagellomere brown; scape long cylindrical, three times longer than wide, with rows of long, black hairs on both sides; pedicel nearly as long as wide, with sparse black hairs; first flagellomere onion-shaped, brown, bare. Antennal ratio: 3: 1: 4. Proboscis dark brown with black hairs; palpus dark brown with black hairs. Thorax black with gray pollen. Hairs on thorax mostly yellow, bristles black; postpronotal lobe with yellow and long black hairs, mesonotum with yellow and long black dense hairs laterally and with row of yellow long hairs at anterior margin and three long black lateral bristles near base of wing, postalar callus with three yellow bristles. Scutellum with black and yellow sparse hairs. Legs brown with yellow scales. Hairs on legs mostly black, bristles black. Femora with black and yellow long hairs; fore tibia with bristle-like hairs; tarsi with short black hairs. Mid femur with three av apically; hind femur with five av apically. Mid tibia with six ad, eight pd, seven av and eight pv; hind tibia with 12 – 15 ad, 12 – 16 pd, 10 – 13 av and 8 – 10 pv. Tibiae with yellow scales. Wing (Fig. 8) half infuscate; infuscate part at costal margin reaching curved tip of r 2 + 3; hyaline part including entire cell r 4, almost of cell m 1, most parts of cells r 2 + 3, r 5, dm, m 2 and cu-a 1, and little parts of cells r 1 and cup; hyaline part of cell r 1 nearly semicircular. Halteres blackish, except knob yellowish. Abdomen black with brown pollen. Hairs on abdomen yellow and black; dorsum with long dense black hairs laterally except tergites 1, 4, 6, and 7 with yellow long hairs, tergites 1 and 6 with yellow recumbent hairs on posterior margin, tergites 9 – 10 with yellow hairs; all sternites with yellow recumbent hairs and black erect hairs. Male genitalia (Figs. 53 – 58). Epandrium subquadrate, distinctly longer than high, and with distinct lateral extension at base in lateral view, epandrium about twice higher than wide in posterior view, extended at middle and curved at apex; gonocoxa with slightly narrow apical portion uniformly wide, with a rather narrow middle incision apically in ventral view; gonostylus with a basal process, its acute tip indistinctly curved in lateral view; epiphallus narrowing at middle, with a clear middle straight line apically, distiphallus long, subtriangular, and with an acute tip in dorsal view, distiphallus long, slightly narrowing apically in lateral view. Female. Unknown.	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF14F2F2D74D0BA0FA7779EA6.taxon	materials_examined	Type material. Holotype male, CHINA: Ningxia, Jingyuan, 29. VI. 2007, Gang Yao; Paratypes 2 males, CHINA: Ningxia, Loushan, 13. VII. 2007, Gang Yao. Distribution. China (Ningxia).	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF14F2F2D74D0BA0FA7779EA6.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species is named after the type locality Ningxia.	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF14F2F2D74D0BA0FA7779EA6.taxon	discussion	Remarks. The new species is similar to H. mesasiatica (Zaitzev), but it can be separated from the latter by the hyaline part of cell cu-a 1 smaller, the epiphallus narrowing medially with a clear middle straight line apically, and the distiphallus with an acute tip in dorsal view. In H. mesasiatica, the hyaline apical part of cell cu-a 1 is rather large, more than half of the infuscate part; the epiphallus is slightly curved at middle with a clear almost straight line, and the distiphallus has an obtuse tip in dorsal view (Zaitzev, 1962). The new species is also similar to the anterior H. beijingensis sp. nov., but it can be separated from the latter by the entire cell of m 1 hyaline, and the distiphallus with an acute tip in the dorsal view. In H. beijingensis sp. nov. cell m 1 with an infuscate spot apically, and the distiphallus with an obtuse tip in dorsal view.	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF14D2F2B74D0BA42A1FA9E0F.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Abdominal tergite 4 with white hairs. Gonocoxa with a narrow middle incision apically and apicolateral lobes somewhat acute apically; epiphallus tumid at middle and narrowing near base, distiphallus short subtriangular with an obtuse tip in dorsal view.	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF14D2F2B74D0BA42A1FA9E0F.taxon	description	Description. Male. Body length 9 mm, wing length 10 mm. Head black with brown and gray pollen; ocellar tubercle reddish brown. Hairs on head black or yellow; frons with long black hairs; face with dense black and yellow hairs; occiput with sparse black and yellow hairs, and a row of erect brown hairs on the edge; ocellar tubercle with seven long black hairs. Antenna black with gray pollen; scape long cylindrical, two times longer than wide, with rows of long black hairs on both sides; pedicel nearly as long as wide, with black hairs; first flagellomere onion-shaped, bare. Antennal ratio: 2: 1: 3. Proboscis brown with yellow hairs; palpus gray with black hairs. Thorax black with gray pollen except mesonotum and scutellum with brown pollen. Hairs and bristles on thorax black; postpronotal lobe with yellow long hairs, mesonotum with row of yellow long hairs at anterior margin and four long black lateral bristles near base of wing; postalar callus with three black bristles; scutellum with long black hairs. Laterotergite with a pile of black hairs. Legs black except tibiae dark yellow. Hairs on legs black or yellow, bristles black. Femora with black hairs; tibiae with bristle-like hairs and some short yellow hairs; fore tarsus with some short yellow hairs, mid and hind tarsi with short black hairs. Mid femur with two av apically; hind femur with three av apically. Mid tibia with six ad, seven pd, seven av and six pv; hind tibia with eight ad, six pd, 6 – 8 av and 6 – 7 pv. Tibiae with yellow scales. Wing (Fig. 9) half infuscate; hyaline part including entire cell r 4, most part of cell m 2, part of r 2 + 3, r 5, m 1, cu-a 1, and dm, and little part of cells r 1, cup, and a; hyaline part of cell r 1 nearly semicircular; hyaline part near base of r 4 very small, triangular; infuscate part with an extended part from cell m 1 into cell m 2 and very close to wing margin. Halteres brown; knob pale. Abdomen black with brown pollen. Hairs on abdomen white and black; dorsum with long dense black hairs laterally except tergites 1, 4 and 6 with white hairs; tergites with a row of white hairs on the margin; dorsum with sparse black hairs except tergite 4 with dense white hairs; tergites 9 – 10 with short yellow hairs. Sternites with yellow recumbent hairs and black erect hairs. Male genitalia (Figs. 59 – 64). Epandrium subquadrate, distinctly longer than high, and with distinct lateral extension at base in lateral view, epandrium distinctly wider than high in posterior view; gonocoxa with slightly narrow apical portion, with a narrow middle incision apically and apicolateral lobes somewhat acute apically in ventral view; gonostylus with a basal process, its acute tip strongly curved in lateral view; epiphallus tumid at middle and narrowing near base, distiphallus short subtriangular with an obtuse tip in dorsal view, distiphallus long, slightly narrowing apically in lateral view. Female. Unknown. Specimens examined. 2 males, CHINA: Ningxia, Helanshan National Nature Reserve, 0 3. VII. 2007, Gang Yao; 1 male, CHINA: Ningxia, Helanshan National Nature Reserve, 0 4. VII. 2007, Gang Yao; 1 male, CHINA: Inner Mongolia, Helanshan National Nature Reserve, 0 7. VII. 2007, Gang Yao; 1 male, CHINA: Ningxia, Luoshan National Nature Reserve, 13. VII. 2007, Gang Yao.	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF14D2F2B74D0BA42A1FA9E0F.taxon	distribution	Distribution. China (Inner Mongolia, Ningxia).	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF14B2F2A74D0B9A5A6989E5F.taxon	description	Anthrax bicincta Wiedemann in Meigen, 1820: 155. Type locality: “ Dalmatien ” [= Croatia] & “ Oesterreich ” & “ südlichen Russland ” [= Russia (SET)].	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF14B2F2A74D0B9A5A6989E5F.taxon	description	volutina, error for velutina.	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF14B2F2A74D0B9A5A6989E5F.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Hyaline part of cell r 1 nearly semicircular. Abdominal tergites 4 and 7 with white hairs. Epiphallus subquadrate, but slightly wider at middle; distiphallus rather short with an obtuse tip in dorsal view, and with acute tip curved apically in lateral view.	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
7F5B6E2AF14B2F2A74D0B9A5A6989E5F.taxon	description	Description. Male. Body length 9 mm, wing length 9 mm. Head black with gray pollen; ocellar tubercle reddish brown. Hairs on head mostly black; frons with dense long black hairs; face with dense black hairs; occiput with sparse black hairs, and a row of erect brown hairs on the edge; ocellar tubercle with seven long black hairs. Antenna yellowish brown; scape long cylindrical, two times longer than wide, with rows of long black hairs on both sides; pedicel nearly as long as wide, with sparse black hairs; first flagellomere onion-shaped, bare. Antennal ratio: 5: 2: 8. Proboscis yellowish brown with short yellow hairs; palpus brown with black hairs. Thorax black with brown pollen. Hairs on thorax black and yellow, bristles black; postpronotal lobe with black long hairs, mesonotum with row of yellow long hairs at anterior margin and three long black lateral bristles near base of wing; postalar callus with three black bristles. Scutellum with long black hairs and sparse short yellow hairs. Legs brown except tarsi and hind tibia black. Hairs and bristles on legs black. Femora with black hairs; tibiae with bristle-like hairs; tarsi with some short black hairs. Mid femur with three av apically; hind femur with four av apically. Mid tibia with five ad, seven pd, six av and six pv; hind tibia with 12 ad, 11 pd, nine av and seven pv. Wing (Fig. 10) half infuscate; hyaline part including entire cells r 4 and m 1, most part of cells r 2 + 3, r 5, m 2, cu-a 1, and dm, and little part of cells r 1, cup, and a; hyaline part of cell r 1 nearly semicircular. Halteres brown; knob pale. Abdomen black with grey pollen. Hairs on abdomen white and black; dorsum with long dense black hairs laterally except tergites 4 and 7 with white hairs; dorsum with black hairs, tergites 4 and 7 with white hairs; tergites 9 – 10 with black hairs. Sternites with brown recumbent hairs and black erect hairs. Male genitalia (Figs. 65 – 70). Epandrium subquadrate, distinctly longer than high, and with distinct lateral extension at base in lateral view, epandrium slightly higher than wide in posterior view; gonocoxa with slightly narrow apical portion, with a narrow middle incision apically and apicolateral lobes somewhat acute apically in ventral view; gonostylus with a basal process, its acute tip strongly curved in lateral view; epiphallus nearly quadrate, but slightly wider at middle, distiphallus rather short with an obtuse tip in dorsal view, and with its acute tip curved apically in lateral view. Female. Body length 8 mm, wing length 9 mm. Similar to male, but abdominal tergite 1 with white hairs, tergites 2 – 7 with black hairs. Specimens examined. 1 male, CHINA: Shandong, Tai’an, 21. IX. 1974, Jikun Yang; 1 male, CHINA: Shaanxi, Huashan, 18. VI. 1956, Jikun Yang; 1 female, CHINA: Beijing, Wofosi, 15. V. 1986, Yin Wang. Distribution. China (Beijing, Inner Mongolia, Jiangsu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Xinjiang).	en	Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding, Evenhuis, Neal L. (2008): Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zootaxa 1870: 1-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183945
