Xenomyia calyptrata 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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14751059

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scientific name

Xenomyia calyptrata Emden, 1951
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Xenomyia calyptrata Emden, 1951 View in CoL

Diagnosis. (modified from Emden 1951). Length: 5.0– 6.6 mm. Ocellar 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; arista very short ( Fig. 7 View FIGURES 4–9 , modified from Fig. 56 of Emden 1951); prosternum bare; superior frontal seta absent; acrostichals present; dorsocentrals 1:2; katepisternals 1+2, the posterior seta very strong; presutural intra-alar seta absent; two intralar fine. Anepimeron bare. Fore tibia without median seta. Hind tibia with an anterodorsal seta, without posterodorsal. Wings spotted Lower calypter elongate, more than twice as long as wide ( Fig. 21 View FIGURES 21–26 , modified from Fig. 7 View FIGURES 4–9 , plate X of Emden 1951). Claws a little long. R 1 bare. Head and thorax in lateral view as in Fig. 7 View FIGURES 4–9 (modified from Fig. 56 of Emden 1951).

Note. Described from male and female from Kenya ( Mt. Elgon , Swam River at 5,000 ft) and Uganda (Mobuku River at 4,000ft, on rocks) ( Emden 1951) ( NHMUK, SDEI) ,

NHMUK

Natural History Museum, London

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Muscidae

Genus

Xenomyia

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