Nothybus acrobates Frey 1958
- Dataset
- Synopsis of Nothybidae (Diptera: Brachycera) from China, with redescription of Nothybus absens Lonsdale & Marshall
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Nothybidae
- genus
- Nothybus
- species
- Nothybus acrobates
description
(Figs 20 – 28)
diagnosis
Diagnosis. Frons (Figs 21 – 23) with two velvety black anterior patches. Ocellar tubercle blackish. Frons with narrow brownish stripe extending from ocellar tubercle to anterior third. Mesonotum (Fig. 24) with regularly 4 rows of acrostichal setulae in mid-longitudinal stripe. Wing (Fig. 25) uniformly dark brown from level of dm-cu to distal margin, except for clear spots in cells r 2 + 3 and r 4 + 5 and a diffuse patch in m 1; crossveins r-m and dm-cu surrounded by brown stripe; distal portion of veins R 2 + 3, R 4 + 5 and M 1, surrounded with large brown spots; distal part of CuA 1 subtended by elongate-oval dark brown area extending to dm-cu. Fore basitarsomere (Fig. 26) dark brown base and apex and median two thirds white. Abdominal tergites mostly dark yellow with dark brown markings on posteromedial and lateral margins (Figs 27 – 28).
discussion
Remarks. This species is still known only from females and the material studied herein, differs from the redescription of Lonsdale & Marshall (2016) in the following characters: (i) head with narrow brownish stripe from ocellar tubercle to anterior third of frons; (ii) anepisternum dark brown with whitish dorsal stripe; (iii) katepisternum dark brown with whitish yellow spot at posterodorsal margin; (iv) mid coxa with anterior half dark brown and posterior half yellow; (v) hind coxa partially brown and yellow; (vi) mid and hind femora with diffuse brownish distomedial rings (Fig. 20); (vii) abdominal tergite 5 with broad dark brown area laterally, fusing to the posterome- dial brown spot; (viii) tergite 6 brownish yellow with narrow lateral area dark brown. Lonsdale & Marshall (2016) did not mention the color of palpus, however we note that it is dark brown, unlike other species in the genus except N. biguttatus Wulp, 1896.
distribution
Distribution. CHINA (Yunnan) [new record], LAOS, MYANMAR.
materials_examined
Material examined. CHINA: 1 ♀, Yunnan, Lushui, Pianma (N 24.124037 °, E 120.675028 °), 25 Jul. 2012 – 10 Aug. 2012, leg. J. Wang (CAU).
Name
- Homonyms
- Nothybus acrobates Frey 1958