Xenomyia azurescens Emden, 1951

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 : 266

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14734938

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0964E465-FF94-2068-6BD5-435BFE2F0CC1

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scientific name

Xenomyia azurescens Emden, 1951
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Xenomyia azurescens Emden, 1951 View in CoL

Diagnosis. (modified from Emden 1951). Length: 5.8–6.7 mm. Ocellar setae absent; fronto-orbital plate much broader than frontal vitta, densely covered by short setulae; postpedicel round at apex; proboscis slender and glossy black; antenna and palpus black, long and slender; prosternum bare; superior frontal seta absent; acrostichals present; dorsocentrals 2:3; katepisternals 1:2; presutural intra-alar seta present; anterior intralar seta strong, posterior weak. Anepimeron bare. Fore tibia without median seta. Hind tibia with an anterodorsal and an anteroventral setae, without posterodorsal. Claws moderately long, not longer than antenna.

Note. Described from 2 syntypes female from Uganda, Bwamba Pass (west side), 5,500–7,500 ft. ( Emden 1951). Deposited at NHMUK .

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Muscidae

Genus

Xenomyia

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