Xenomyia setulosa Zielke, 1970

Couri, Márcia Souto, Sousa, Viviane Rodrigues De, Gomes, Marina & Gil-Azevedo, Leonardo H., 2025, The puzzling genus Xenomyia Malloch (Diptera, Muscidae): taxonomic notes, key to species and redescription of Xenomyia hirtibasis (Bigot), Zootaxa 5570 (2), pp. 260-280 : 278-279

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5570.2.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:78EE7D18-F2D4-4225-A51D-E500E93E42DD

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14734992

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0964E465-FF80-207D-6BD5-4601FEE70EC9

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scientific name

Xenomyia setulosa Zielke, 1970
status

 

Xenomyia setulosa Zielke, 1970 View in CoL

Diagnosis. (modified from Zielke 1970). Length: body 5–6 mm. Fronto-orbital plates not enlarged; eyes densely covered with short hairs; ocellar setae present; fronto-orbital plate narrower than frontal vitta; proboscis short, stout and bulbous, dusted; facial ridges with few setulae near vibrissa; prosternum bare; antenna dark brown; arista nearly bare; palpus grey, slightly dilated apically, flattened, spoon-shaped; dorsocentrals 2:3, the anterior presutural one very weak and short; anepimeron bare; presutural intra-alar seta present; katepisternals 0:1. Fore tibia with one posteroventral seta. Hind tibia with a weak posterodorsal seta, one anterodorsal and one anterovental. Wings brownish, halter and calypter yellow.

Notes. Described from male and female from South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Giant’s Castle , Holotype deposited at NHMUK.

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Muscidae

Genus

Xenomyia

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