Empis ( Enoplempis ) delumbis

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 : 70

publication ID

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

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scientific name

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

( Figs 143–147 View FIGURES 143–147 , 150, 151 View FIGURES 148–151 , 153–175 View FIGURES 152–153 View FIGURES 154–159 View FIGURES 160–163 View FIGURES 164–169 View FIGURES 170–173 View FIGURES 174–175 )

This group includes five species, E. ( En.) delumbis Melander , E. ( En.) floricola sp. nov., E. ( En.) sphaera sp. nov., E. ( En.) spiculata sp. nov. and E. ( En.) tripenicillata sp. nov., which are distinguished by the phallus with paired lobes and usually with subapical spiny swelling ( e.g., Figs 151 View FIGURES 148–151 , 171, 173 View FIGURES 170–173 ), hypandrium with long setae, subepandrial process present ( e.g., Figs 170, 172 View FIGURES 170–173 ) and male hind femur usually with row of thickened posterior preapical setae ( e.g., Figs 147 View FIGURES 143–147 , 156 View FIGURES 154–159 ). In addition, males of E. ( En.) sphaera sp. nov. produce balloons.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Empididae

Genus

Empis

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