Empis ( Enoplempis ) teres

Sinclair, Bradley J., Brooks, Scott E. & Cumming, Jeffrey M., 2025, Revision of the western Nearctic species of Empis subgenus Enoplempis (Diptera: Empididae), Zootaxa 5615 (1), pp. 1-200 : 114

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5615.1.1

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scientific name

Empis ( Enoplempis ) teres
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Empis ( Enoplempis) teres View in CoL species group

( Figs 221–238 View FIGURES 221–226 View FIGURES 227–232 View FIGURES 233–236 View FIGURES 237–238 )

Four species are included in this group, E. ( En.) scotti sp. nov., E. ( En.) scutica sp. nov., E. ( En.) teres Melander , and E. ( En.) undulasetosa sp. nov., which are distinguished by the preapical rounded lobe ( e.g., Figs 222 View FIGURES 221–226 , 231 View FIGURES 227–232 ), often with tuft of whip-like setae on the male hind femur, cluster of posteroventral setae distal to preapical swelling on the male hind femur ( e.g., Fig. 229 View FIGURES 227–232 ), male hind tibia often with row of 2–3 short, tufted lobes and basal posteroventral lobe usually bifid ( e.g., Figs 229, 230 View FIGURES 227–232 ), male hind femur without posterior preapical row of setae ( e.g., Fig. 229 View FIGURES 227–232 ), male terminalia with subepandrial process present, cercus apically tapered, hypandrium short and truncate, and phallus long, slender and arched ( Figs 233–236 View FIGURES 233–236 ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Empididae

Genus

Empis

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