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Mutin C., Du Maghreb au Moyen-Orient, un arc de crises
No full textTroin Jean-François, Mutin C. Mutin C., Du Maghreb au Moyen-Orient, un arc de crises. In: Annales de Géographie, t. 112, n°631, 2003. p. 331
Xylota danieli Mutin & Ichige, spec. nov.
No full textXylota danieli Mutin & Ichige spec. nov. (figs 3, 5) Xylota cuprina Coquillett, 1898: 327, ♂ paratype, “ Japan Mitsukuri” [National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC] examined. Note: The holotype and paratype of X. cuprina Coquillett belong to different species. Xylota coquilletti auct. nec Hervé-Bazin, 1914: Hippa, 1978: 71, fig. 32 A; Stackelberg, 1952: 320 (Zelima), part; Violovitsh, 1983: 143, fig. 221. Xylota amamiensis auct. nec Shiraki, 1968: Mutin & Gilbert, 1999: 47, new name for X. coquilletti sensu Hippa, 1978; Mutin & Barkalov, 1999: 492. Diagnosis. A new species similar to X. coquilletti and X. fo Hull, 1944 (which also inhabit East Asia) in having the metatibia with a basoventral range of setulae, but differing from the former by having an entirely pollinose frons, a rather uniformly pilose mesonotum and a thin, acute spike on the metatrochanter, as well as in features of the male genitalia. Xylota fo has a very long curved spike on the metatrochanter, a sharply concave apical fourth of tergum IV (lateral view), the metafemur with an anterior row of 12–14 strong setae and a posterior row of 9–10 strong setae and also differs in features of the male genitalia (Hippa 1978). The male genitalia of X. fo figured by Huo et al. (2007) belong to “ X. coquilletti ” in their sense. Description. Male. Body length 8.2–10.5 mm, wing length 6–7 mm. Head. Face and frons entirely densely silverywhite pollinose. Vertex and occiput shining black dorsally, with bluish glow and scattered, erect white pile. Antenna brown, with darker basal 2 segments, basoflagellomere sometimes reddish ventrally. Eyes holoptic. Thorax. Postpronotum shining black laterally and dense white pollinose from within. Mesonotum shining back, with short, erect, pale pile. Scutellum shining black, pale pilose, sulcate, with long pale pile dorsoapically. Thorax more or less pollinose laterally, with denser pale pilosity on posterior anepisternum and katepisternum. Legs. Pro- and mesofemur mainly black except at the extreme apex, which is yellow, pale pilose. Pro- and mesotibia mainly yellow except for a more or less visible dark annulus at the middle. Pro- and mesotarsus mainly yellow except for the apical 2 tarsomeres, which are black. Metatrochanter with a short, thin, curved spike, its length shorter than the ventral setae on the metafemur. Metafemur black, mainly pale pilose except apical 1 / 6 with black pile, with an anterior row of 10–12 strong setae and a posterior row of 7–9 similar setae. Metatibia yellow on basal 2 / 5, with black setulae ventrally, and black on apical 3 / 5. Metatarsus entirely dark. Wing. Membrane hyaline, with brownish stigma; mainly microtrichose except for a small bare patch on the basal medial (bm) and posterior cubital (cup) cells, antero-basally. Abdomen. Visibly constricted in the middle, near connection between terga II and III. Tergum I usually black, tergum II black or dark brown, sometimes with a pair of diffuse reddish maculae; tergum III, as a rule, brown or reddish, usually paler basally; tergum IV brown or reddish, paler apically. Abdominal pile mainly pale except for areas of adpressed, very short, black pile on tergum II medially, tergum III postero-medially and tergum IV antero-medially. Sterna 7 and 8 pilose. Genitalia as in fig. 3. Female. Not reliably distinguishable from the related species X. fo. Examined material. Holotype ♂, RUSSIA: Primorsky Krai, Bolshaya Ussurka river, Krutoy Yar village, 19.VI. 1995, leg. V. Mutin, [Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Vladivostok, Russia (IBSS)]. Paratypes: RUSSIA: 11 ♂, same locality, 19–21.VI. 1995, leg. V. Mutin, [6 ♂ IBSS; 5 ♂ Amurskii Humanitarian-Pedagogical State University (AmHPSU)]; 4 ♂, Primorsky Krai, 30 km N from Terney, Sichote-Alin reserve, 4.VIII. 1982, leg. V. Mutin, [3 ♂ IBSS; ♂ AmHPSU]; ♂, Amurskaya Oblast, Malyi Khingan, Kundur, 19.VII. 1988, leg. V. Makarkin, [IBSS]; ♂, Khabarovsky Krai, lower reaches of Gorin river, Tikhaya anabranch, 18.VI. 1988, leg. V. Mutin, [AmHPSU], 4 ♂; Khabarovsky Krai, Pivan village, 19.– 20.VI. 1993, leg. V. Mutin, [AmHPSU]; ♂, same data except 20.VI. 1992, [AmHPSU]; ♂, Bolshekhekhzyrsky reserve, environs of Bychikha village, 22.VI. 1982, leg. V. Mutin, [AmHPSU]; ♂, Komsomolsk-na- Amure, Silinsky park, 31.VII. 1996, leg. V. Mutin, [AmHPSU]; ♂, 25 km SW from Komsomolsk-na-Amure, environs of Molodezhny, 17.VII. 1993, leg. V. Mutin, [AmHPSU]; JAPAN: 7 ♂, Hokkaido, Tomakomai C., Misawa, 21.VII. 2006, leg. K. Ichige, [Katsuyoshi Ichige personal collection, (KIPC)]; ♂, Akita Pref., Ohmagari, 7.VI. 1953, leg. N. Fukuhara, [National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan (NIAES)]; ♂, Tochigi Pref., Nikko, 9.VIII. 1953, leg. I. Hattori, [NIAES]; 2 ♂, Ibaraki Pref., Mt. Yamizo, 29.V. 2007, leg. K. Ichige; 4 ♂, Ibaraki Pref., Gozen-yama, 2.V. 2009, leg. K. Ichige, [KIPC]; ♂, Tokyo, Mt. Takao, 17.X. 1965, leg. J. Minamikawa, [NIAES]; ♂, Gifu Pref., Takayama C., Hirayu, 3.VIII. 2013, leg. K. Ichige, [KIPC]; ♂, Tokushima Pref., Mt. Nakatsumine, 20.VIII. 1954, leg. M. Hirai, [NIAES]; ♂, Tsushima Is., Oboshiyama, 4.VIII. 1974, leg. Y. Ikezaki, [NIAES]; 2 ♂, Ryukyu Is., Amami- Shinokawa, 11.V. 1953, leg. T. Shiraki, [NIAES]; 2 ♂, Ryukyu Is., Amami-Oshima, Mt. Yuwan, 3.V. 1953, leg. T. Shiraki, [NIAES]. Etymology. The specific name is dedicated to Daniel William Coquillett (1856–1911), the famous American dipterist. Distribution. Russia: south of Khabarovsky Krai, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, south of Amurskaya Oblast, Primorsky Krai, Sakhalin Oblast, Japan: Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands. Natural history. The larva is unknown. Feeding adults were observed on the inflorescences of Senecio cannabifolius; frequently adults collect pollen from the leaves of flowering plants. Males are associated with freshly sawn tree trunks. It is a common species of Xylota in the urban territories of the Russian Far East.Published as part of Mutin, Valerii & Ichige, Katsuyoshi, 2014, A new species of Xylota Meigen (Diptera: Syrphidae) from the Far East, pp. 196-200 in Zootaxa 3878 (2) on pages 197-199, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3878.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/22745
Sphegina (Asiosphegina) malaisei Hippa, van Steenis & Mutin 2015
No full textSphegina (Asiosphegina) malaisei Hippa, van Steenis & Mutin, 2015 Figs 56F, 72A, 59D Sphegina (Asiosphegina) malaisei Hippa, van Steenis & Mutin, 2015: 21. Type locality: Kambaiti, Myanmar (holotype, ♂, NHRS). Material examined VIETNAM • 1 ♀; “NW VIETNAM: Tonkin / Hoang Lien N.P., 15 km / W Sa Pa c. 1900 m / 15– 21.X.1999 Malaise traps / [leg] C. v. Achterberg RMNH ‘99”; NBC. THAILAND • 1 ♀; “Thailand, Chiang Mai / Doi Inthanon NP / Kew Mae Pan 2200 m / 18°33.163 ʹ N, 98°28.8 ʹ E / 13.IX–21.IX.2006 Malaise Trap / Y. Areeluck leg. T 251”; QSBG. Distribution and biology Known from NE Myanmar, N Vietnam and N Thailand. In Myanmar collected in a cloud forest with streams and swampy areas at an altitude of 2000 m. The specimen from Vietnam was collected by a Malaise trap near the Tram Ton Pass, the highest mountain pass of Vietnam (1900 m), near Fan Si Pan mountain. The Malaise trap was set up in an area of montane forest disturbed by grazing buffaloes, containing muddy areas and small streams. Despite the cold and wet weather insects were still rather abundantly flying (C. van Achterberg, pers. comm).Published as part of Steenis, Jeroen Van, Hippa, Heikki & Mutin, Valeri A., 2018, Revision of the Oriental species of the genus Sphegina Meigen, 1822 (Diptera: Syrphidae), pp. 1-198 in European Journal of Taxonomy 489 on page 124, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.489, http://zenodo.org/record/383053
Cheilosia chukotana Barkalov & Mutin, sp. n.
No full textCheilosia chukotana Barkalov & Mutin sp. n. (figs 3 A, 4 A–D) Type material. HOLOTYPE, ♀, labeled: Russia: Chukotka, lower reaches of river Anadyr, 64,83° N, 175,96° E, 5 m above sea level, 21.0 7.2013, leg. A. Barkalov, coll. SZM. PARATYPE: Russia: 1 ♀, same place as holotype, 21.0 7.2013, leg. A. Barkalov, coll. SZM. Diagnosis. This species (fig. 3 A) is similar to Ch. semifasciata Becker and Ch. parafasciata Barkalov, but differs in its characteristic sharply raised central knob, and by the lack of a transverse stripe and indentation in the anterior third of the frons. Cheilosia semifasciata is distributed in Europe, reaching eastwards to the Caucasus. Cheilosia parafasciata is known from the southern part of the Russian Far East (Khabarovsk and Amur Regions). Description. Female. Body length: 5.2–5.5 mm, wing length 4.9–5.1 mm. Head: Face black sharply protruding forward, shiny in lower part and with dense grey tomentum in upper part, without distinct hairs; central knob sharply raised (fig. 4 A), narrow; eye-margins broad, approximately as broad as width of pedicel, covered with dense grey tomentum (along face with narrow shiny stripe), hairs short, erect, light. Cheeks moderately high, covered with dense grey tomentum and white hairs. Frons broad (fig. 4 B), slightly swollen, without transverse stripe and indentation, longitudinal stripes fine, in the middle practically invisible, shiny in most part, only near lunula with narrow strip of grey tomentum, hairs short, erect, yellow. Lunula narrow brown; antennal pits distinctly separated. Antennae black (fig. 4 C), postpedicel rounded, covered with grey-brown tomentum; arista short, distinctly broadened in basal 1 / 3, covered with short hairs. Eyes completely covered with dense, comparatively short brown hairs in length equal to half of scapus width. Vertex covered with black or black and yellow hairs; vertical triangle equilateral. Thorax: Humeri black, with grey tomentum and light hairs. Mesonotum with grey tomentum laterally, shiny medially, covered with moderately long, semi-erect yellow hairs, in front of postalar callus with two short black bristles and with one bristle on postalar callus. Scutellum black, shiny, covered with short erect yellow hairs, two black bristles and two longer yellow hairs on hind margin (in the other specimen, bristles on scutellum are absent). Pleurae with dense grey tomentum and rare light hairs, metasternum with rare light hairs. Legs black with brown knees, covered with light hairs; hind femur without long hairs ventrally. Wings: Narrow, transparent, finely brownish, completely covered with microtrichia; inner angle between veins M 1 and R 4 + 5 acute, vein M 1 strongly curved (fig. 4 D); alula narrow, completely covered with microtrichia. Calypters white with yellow rim and white hairs; halters yellow. Abdomen: Oval, broadest in the end of tergum II, black, shiny with fine brownish tomentum, covered with yellow hairs, erect on sides of terga I–II and semi-erect and erect in the rest of abdomen. Male. Unknown. Etymology. The species is named after the Chukotka Peninsula. Distribution. Russia: Chukotka Peninsula. Taxonomy. The subgeneric classification of the genus Cheilosia is based on male genitalia (Barkalov 2002). Since we have only females, we can place Ch. chukotana sp. n. to the subgenus Pollinocheila only with a certain degree of conditionality. The evidence comes from the following characters inherent in other females of this subgenus: protruding face, characteristic tomentum of face and frons. Within the subgenus, the new species is similar to Ch. semifasciata Becker and Ch. parafasciata Barkalov, differing from them by the diagnostic characters mentioned above. Because of the variation in the presence of bristles on the mesonotum and scutellum in Cheilosia chukotana sp. n., in the key to Far Eastern Cheilosia (Barkalov in Mutin & Barkalov, 1999) the new species must be inserted twice. In the case of a specimen without bristles on the scutellar hind margin, the new species runs to Ch. pollinata Barkalov: 75. Bigger: 9.5 –12.0 mm; anepisternum shiny without tomentum............................... Ch. urakawensis Shiraki - Smaller: 5.2–9.3 mm; anepisternum with dense grey dusting................................................. 76 76. Legs and antennae black............................................................... Ch. chukotana sp. n. - Tibiae yellow with dark middle 1 / 3, postpedicel orange with dark antero-apical 1 / 3............... Ch. pollinata Barkalov In the case when strong black bristles are present on the scutellar hind margin, the new species runs to Ch. impressa: 114. Legs black, or only knees narrowly yellow............................................................... 115 115. Fore coxae with basal spur............................................................... C h. impressa Loew - Fore coxae without basal spur........................................................... Ch. chukotana sp. n.Published as part of Barkalov, Anatolij V. & Mutin, Valerij A., 2014, Two new species of Syrphidae (Diptera) from Chukotka (Northern Russian Far East), pp. 285-292 in Zootaxa 3846 (2) on pages 286-289, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3846.2.8, http://zenodo.org/record/22545
Sphegina (Sphegina) guptai Mutin 1998
No full textSphegina (Sphegina) guptai Mutin, 1998 Figs 2 C, 3D, 5 Sphegina (Sphegina) guptai Mutin, 1998: 240. Type locality: India, Rahla (holotype, ♂, USNM). Differential diagnosis This species is slightly similar to Sphegina (Sphegina) elegans by general appearance and characters of the male genitalia. It differs from known Oriental species of Sphegina (Sphegina) by the shiny black abdomen with widened terga III and IV. Only Sphegina (Sphegina) quadriseta has a somewhat similar appearance and the differences are discussed under this species. Male genitalia with long, curved, widening towards the apex surstylus with subapical ventral sublobe. Material examined Holotype INDIA • ♂; “ 12. VI. 1970, India / Northwest Himalaya / Rahla, 2743 m / (M. Gupta) / No M 33”; USNM. Paratype INDIA • ♀; “India H. P. /Ahla [Rahla?] 2286m / 17. VI. 1971, / M. Gupta No M 51”; “Ghorpade / collection / Bangalore”; USNM. Redescription Male LENGTH. Body 5.2 mm, wing 4.6 mm. HEAD. Face in lateral view concave, rather weakly projected antero-ventrally; frontal prominence weakly developed. Ratio width of vertex at anterior ocellus: width of head 1: 3.2; ratio width of ocellar triangle: width of vertex 1: 2.5; ratio length of ocellar triangle: length of frons 1: 2.2. Face yellow, pale pollinose, long pilose along eye-margin. Hypostomal bridge yellow, long pale pilose. Gena and mouth edge yellow, yellowish pollinose with large subtriangular non-pollinose shiny area. Frons and vertex dark brown, predominantly grey pollinose, a narrow fascia posterior of lunula non-pollinose and shiny (Fig. 3D); pile short, light yellow to brown. Frons with very weak medial furrow. Occiput brown, light grey pollinose, light yellow pilose. Eye without enlarged facets at anterior margin. Antenna dark brown, with black setae dorsally on scape and pedicel; basoflagellomere squarish, ratio width: length 1: 1.1; arista pilose, about 3 times as long as basoflagellomere. THORAX. Colour black, weakly greyish pollinose; postpronotum partly dark brown, remainder black; scutum and pleuron with very short adpressed pale-brown pile. Scutellum subtriangular, dark brown, grey pollinose, pile slightly longer than on scutum, with two closely set short setae medially at posterior margin, ratio length of scutellum: length of seta 1: 1.2. WING. Entirely microtrichose; hyaline, stigma yellowish. Crossvein dm-cu meeting vein M obliquely and vein M 1 meeting vein R 4+5 perpendicularly. LEGS. Proleg yellow, protarsus with tarsomeres 4 and 5 dark brown. Metaleg dark brown with femur yellow on basal half, very weakly incrassate, ratio width: length 1: 5.3; tibia dark brown and yellow biannulate, slightly club shaped, without apicoventral dens, basitarsomere thin, ratio width: length 1: 3.9. ABDOMEN. Length ratio of terga I: II: III: IV 1: 3.3: 2.3: 2.2; ratio width at posterior margin: medial length of tergum II and III 1: 3.0 and 1: 1.3. Terga black, tergum III with sub-anterior dark yellow fascia covering almost half the tergum; pile mixed dark brown to light-brown, short, laterally on terga I and II long; tergum I with only normal pile; sternum I oval, ratio width: length 1: 1.3; sterna II–III sclerotized, ratio width: length respectively 1: 3.6 and 1: 2.1; sterna IV, VI, VII and VIII (Fig. 5 A), with long yellow pile. Genitalia, Fig. 5 B–D: note the symmetrical surstyli and superior lobes. Female Similar to the male except normal sexual dimorphism. LENGTH. Body 5.7 mm, wing 5.7 mm. HEAD. Ventral half of face and mouth edge yellow; mouth edge ventrally of eyes wide; ratio width of vertex at anterior ocellus: width of head 1: 3.1; ratio width of ocellar triangle: width of vertex 1: 2.3; ratio length of ocellar triangle: length of frons 1: 2.1. Basoflagellomere round, as wide as long; arista pilose, about 3 times as long as basoflagellomere. THORAX. Postpronotum yellow. Scutellum with two widely set short setae medially at posterior margin, ratio length of scutellum: length of seta 1: 1.1. WING. Vein dm-cu meeting vein M obliquely. LEGS. Pro- and mesotarsus with tarsomeres 3–5 dark brown. Metafemur with basal ⅓ yellow, slender, ratio width: length 1: 5.4; metatarsus with basitarsomere very thin, ratio width: length 1: 4.6. ABDOMEN. Length ratio of terga I: II: III: IV: V 1: 4.0: 2.9: 2.8: 0.8; ratio width at posterior margin: medial length of tergum II and III 1: 1.7 and 1: 0.7. Tergum V predominantly yellow. Sternum I oval, as wide as long; sternum II rectangular, ratio width: length 1: 1.4; sternum III trapezoidal, ratio width: length 1: 1.6; sternum IV squarish, ratio width: length 1: 0.7; sternum V trapezoidal, posterior margin short, ratio width: length 1: 0.9.Published as part of Steenis, Jeroen Van, Hippa, Heikki & Mutin, Valeri A., 2018, Revision of the Oriental species of the genus Sphegina Meigen, 1822 (Diptera: Syrphidae), pp. 1-198 in European Journal of Taxonomy 489 on pages 23-26, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.489, http://zenodo.org/record/383053
Sphegina (Asiosphegina) index Hippa, van Steenis & Mutin 2015
No full textSphegina (Asiosphegina) index Hippa, van Steenis & Mutin, 2015 Figs 45B, 50B, 52B Sphegina (Asiosphegina) index Hippa, van Steenis & Mutin, 2015: 19. Type locality: Kambaiti, Myanmar (holotype, ♂, NHRS). Material examined CHINA • 1 ♀; “Fukien, S. China / Shaowu: Tachulan / 1000 m. T. Maa ”; “ 25–30.IV.1943 ”; BPBM. MYANMAR • 1 ♀; “ N.E. Burma / Kambaiti 7000 ft / 26–5–1934 [leg] Malaise”; “ Paratype ♀ / Sphegina (Asiosphegina) / malaisei Hippa, / van Steenis & Mutin, 2015 ” [red label]; JSA. THAILAND • 1 ♀; “ Thailand, Chiang Mai / Doi Inthanon NP / checkpoint 2 1700 m / 18°31.559 ʹ N, 98°29.941 ʹ E / 26.X–2.XI.2006 Malaise trap / Y. Areeluck leg. T 383”; QSBG • 1 ♀; “ Thailand, Chiang Mai / Doi Inthanon NP / summit marsh, 2500 m / 18°35.361 ʹ N, 98°29.157 ʹ E / 12.X–19.X.2006 Malaise Trap / Y. Areeluck leg. T 368”; JSA. VIETNAM • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; “NW VIETNAM: Tonkin / Hoang Lien N.P., 15 km, / W Sa Pa c. 1900 m / 15–21.X.1999 Malaise traps / [leg] C. v. Achterberg, RMNH ‘99”; NBC • 1 ♀; same data as for preceding; JSA • 1 ♀; “NW Vietnam (Ton Kin) / Sin Chay / 15–21.X.1999 / 1900 mtr. Mal. Trap / C. van Achterberg ”; JSA. Description Female LENGTH. Body 6.0– 6.9 mm, wing 4.8–5.5 mm HEAD. Face in lateral view concave, strongly projected antero-ventrally; frontal prominence weakly developed. Ratio width of vertex at anterior ocellus: width of head 1: 2.9–3.3; ratio width of ocellar triangle: width of vertex 1: 2.5–2.9; ratio length of ocellar triangle: length of frons 1: 2.8–3.2. Face black; grey pollinose, long pilose along eye-margin. Hypostomal bridge black, long pale pilose. Gena and mouth edge dark brown to black with large subtriangular non-pollinose shiny area. Frons and vertex black, slightly pollinose, a rectangular non-pollinose and shiny area posterior of lunula; pile short, light yellow. Frons with wide circular pit and wide furrow medially. Occiput black, light grey pollinose, light yellow pilose. Antenna dark brown with black setae dorsally on scape and pedicel; basoflagellomere long-oval, ratio width: length 1: 1.5–1.6; arista long pilose, about 2.5 times as long as basoflagellomere. THORAX. Colour black, postpronotum light yellow; weakly grey pollinose, pleuron entirely more heavily grey pollinose; scutum and pleuron with very short adpressed light yellow pile. Scutellum subtriangular, black, shiny, only slightly pollinose, with pile slightly longer than on scutum, with two closely set, long setae medially at posterior margin, ratio length of scutellum: length of seta 1: 1.9–2.3. WING. Entirely microtrichose; hyaline, stigma yellowish, crossveins brown infuscated. Crossvein dm-cu meeting vein M perpendicularly and vein M 1 meeting vein R 4+5 perpendicularly. LEGS. Pro- and mesoleg yellow, tarsomeres 4 and 5 black. Metaleg, Fig. 52B, with coxa dark brown, trochanter yellow; femur black with basal ⅓ yellow, slightly incrassate and basally curved, with a long black seta anterodorsally near apex, ratio width: length 1: 5.0–5.4; tibia black and yellow biannulate, without apicoventral dens; tarsus entirely black, first tarsomere thin, ratio width: length 1: 3.2–3.4. ABDOMEN. Length ratio of terga I: II: III: IV: V 1: 2.7–3.0: 2.3–2.6: 1.5–1.8: 0.6–0.7; ratio width at posterior margin: medial length of tergum II and III 1: 2.5–2.9 and 1: 0.8–0.9. Terga black, tergum II with anterior dark-orange fascia; tergum III with orange-yellow macula latero-medially; terga III and IV dark-orange; pile of terga short, light yellow; tergum I with one anterolateral strong black seta; sternum III rectangular, ratio width: length 1: 1.3–1.5; sternum IV rectangular, ratio width: length 1: 0.6–0.7 and sternum V squarish with convex posterior margin, width: length 1: 1.0–1.1. Distribution and biology Known from Myanmar, SE China, Thailand and Vietnam. A montane (1700–2500 m) species apparently with two flight periods: mid-May and from mid-October to early November. In Myanmar it was collected in a cloud forest with streams and swampy areas at an altitude of 2000 m. The specimen from Vietnam was collected in a Malaise trap near the Tram Ton Pass, the highest mountain pass in Vietnam (1900 m), near Fan Si Pan mountain. The Malaise trap had been set up in an area of montane forest disturbed by grazing buffaloes, containing muddy areas and small streams. Despite the cold and wet weather insects were rather abundantly flying (C. van Achterberg, pers. comm). Remarks The species was previously known only by the holotype from Myanmar, Kambaiti (Hippa et al. 2015). One of the female paratypes of Sphegina (Asiosphegina) malaisei turned out to be the hitherto undescribed female of S. (A.) index. This particular specimen has very faintly infuscated wing and a slightly darkened ventral side of the metatrochanter giving a false impression of a carina.Published as part of Steenis, Jeroen Van, Hippa, Heikki & Mutin, Valeri A., 2018, Revision of the Oriental species of the genus Sphegina Meigen, 1822 (Diptera: Syrphidae), pp. 1-198 in European Journal of Taxonomy 489 on pages 102-103, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.489, http://zenodo.org/record/383053
Sphegina (Asiosphegina) mirifica Hippa, Steenis & Mutin, 2015, sp. n.
No full textSphegina (Asiosphegina) mirifica sp. n. Figs 20 A–C MALE. Body length not measureable, wing length 4.2 mm. Head. Lost in the single specimen. Thorax. Colour mainly brownish, faintly pollinose; postalar callus pale brown; the pile short, adpressed, pale; scutellum shiny, the pile similar to posterior part of scutum but darker brownish, the vestiture at apical margin damaged. Wing. Similar to Fig. 2 D, hyalinous, stigma pale, the darker pattern brownish; note the extra cross vein between vein R 1 and R 2 + 3. Legs. Pro- and mesoleg yellow, tarsomeres 4 and 5 brownish. Metaleg: coxa brownish; trochanter simple, brownish; femur yellow on the basal 1 / 2, brownish on the apical 1 / 2, with an indication of a darker submedial annulus; tibia without an apico-ventral tooth, brownish, the extreme base and an annulus on the apical 1 / 2 yellowish; tarsus brown. Abdomen. Tergites I and II in dorsal view similar to Fig. 4 F, the more apical segments, except for genitalia, lost; the colour of tergites shiny brown, the pile short, adpressed and brownish, becoming longer and pale towards the lateral margin; tergite I with 2 rather close together placed strong, pale setae at the lateral margin. Genitalia, Figs 20 A–C. Symmetrical. FEMALE. Unknown. Type material. HOLOTYPE. ♂, N.E. Burma, Kambaiti, 7000 ft., 5.v. 1934, R. Malaise (BMNH). Etymology. The name is Latin, mirifica, causing wonder, referring to the extraordinary cross vein between R 1 and R 2 + 3. Discussion. Sphegina mirifica is similar to S. forficata and S. crucivena. In addition to the characters mentioned in the key it differs by the following characters in the male genitalia: 1) surstylus is more strongly curved and broad (not attenuated) at the apex, 2) aedeagal lobe is angulate (not smoothly curved) and 3) the ejaculatory hood is very short (long). The superior lobe is large and long as in S. crucivena, but straight (not angularly curved).Published as part of Hippa, Heikki, Steenis, Jeroen Van & Mutin, Valeri A., 2015, The genus Sphegina Meigen (Diptera, Syrphidae) in a biodiversity hotspot: the thirty-six sympatric species in Kambaiti, Myanmar, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 3954 (1) on page 36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3954.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/28839
Sphegina (Asiosphegina) culex Hippa, Steenis & Mutin, 2015, sp. n.
No full textSphegina (Asiosphegina) culex sp. n. Figs 1 C, 39 A–D MALE. Body length 5.4 mm, wing length 5.0 mm. Head (Fig. 1 C). Face strongly concave and weakly projected antero-ventrally; frontal prominence very weakly developed. Width of vertex at anterior ocellus:width of head 1: 3.6; depth of occipital fossa ca. 1 / 6 of the width of an eye in dorsal view. Width of face: width of head 1: 4.1. Face and gena dark, pale pollinose. Frons and vertex dull black; frons with a depression behind frontal prominence; the pile short, erect and pale. Occiput dull black. Antenna brownish; arista with short pile. Thorax. Colour black, postalar callus brownish, slightly pale pollinose; scutum with the pile adpressed, pale; scutellum semicircular, the pile short, pale and adpressed, with a pair of thin, long, yellow setae at apical margin. Wing. Hyaline, stigma very pale. Legs. Proleg yellow, tarsomeres 3 and 5 dark. Mesoleg similar to proleg, the apical tarsomeres lost from the single specimen. Metaleg: coxa brownish; trochanter simple, yellow; femur brown, paler apically, basal 1 / 3 yellow; tibia without apico-ventral tooth, yellow, the apical 1 / 5 black and an obscure brownish annulus on the basal 1 / 2; all tarsomeres entirely black. Abdomen. Length ratio of tergites I, II, III and IV 1: 2.9: 1.9: 1.9. Colour of tergites shiny black, tergite III reddish on anterior 1 / 2, pile of tergites pale, short and adpressed, becoming longer laterally; tergite I with an oblique row of 5 rather thin, long, pale setae laterally; sternite IV (Fig. 39 A) black, the pile pale; sternites VI–VIII simple, black, the pile pale. Genitalia, Figs 39 B–D. Note the nearly symmetrical surstyli and superior lobes as well as the slightly modified cercus. FEMALE. Unknown. Type material. HOLOTYPE. ♂, N.E. Burma, Kambaiti, 7000 ft, 14.v. 1934, R. Malaise, (SMNH). Etymology. The name is Latin, culex, mosquito, referring to the mosquito-like appearance of the fly. Discussion. Sphegina culex is similar to S. pollex. For further discussion, see under the latter.Published as part of Hippa, Heikki, Steenis, Jeroen Van & Mutin, Valeri A., 2015, The genus Sphegina Meigen (Diptera, Syrphidae) in a biodiversity hotspot: the thirty-six sympatric species in Kambaiti, Myanmar, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 3954 (1) on page 60, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3954.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/28839
The Proto-Elamite Settlement and its Neighbors: Tepe Yahya Period IVC.
No full textInternational audiencehe site of Tepe Yahya in southeastern Iran is famous, among other important aspects, for the Proto-Elamite complex dated to around 3000 BC (Period IVC). The material culture of Period IVC is not exclusively limited to its Proto-Elamite component, but is also characterized by the presence of elements from other Middle-Asian cultural ceramic traditions. In addition to a synthesis of the Proto-Elamite period and the material assemblage at Tepe Yahya, The Proto-Elamite Settlement and Its Neighbors provides an updated review and comprehensive discussion of the Proto-Elamite sphere, its relations to Mesopotamia, and its eastern Middle Asian neighbors. This innovative book illustrates that the “multi-cultural” situation at Tepe Yahya Period IVC was present across many sites in Middle Asia and that, in addition to the Proto-Elamite sphere and the cities of Mesopotamia, Middle Asia around 3000 BC was incorporated within an interactive “multi-players” network of polities. Benjamin Mutin, Author, is a Research Fellow for the American School of Prehistoric Research, Harvard University. He is an archaeologist who specializes in Middle Asian proto-history and who has worked in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Tajikistan, and Oman. He holds a Ph.D. in Prehistory, Anthropology, and Ethnology from University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, General Editor, and Project Director for Tepe Yahya, is the Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Peabody Museum (Director 1977–1990)
The Proto-Elamite Settlement and its Neighbors: Tepe Yahya Period IVC.
No full textInternational audiencehe site of Tepe Yahya in southeastern Iran is famous, among other important aspects, for the Proto-Elamite complex dated to around 3000 BC (Period IVC). The material culture of Period IVC is not exclusively limited to its Proto-Elamite component, but is also characterized by the presence of elements from other Middle-Asian cultural ceramic traditions. In addition to a synthesis of the Proto-Elamite period and the material assemblage at Tepe Yahya, The Proto-Elamite Settlement and Its Neighbors provides an updated review and comprehensive discussion of the Proto-Elamite sphere, its relations to Mesopotamia, and its eastern Middle Asian neighbors. This innovative book illustrates that the “multi-cultural” situation at Tepe Yahya Period IVC was present across many sites in Middle Asia and that, in addition to the Proto-Elamite sphere and the cities of Mesopotamia, Middle Asia around 3000 BC was incorporated within an interactive “multi-players” network of polities. Benjamin Mutin, Author, is a Research Fellow for the American School of Prehistoric Research, Harvard University. He is an archaeologist who specializes in Middle Asian proto-history and who has worked in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Tajikistan, and Oman. He holds a Ph.D. in Prehistory, Anthropology, and Ethnology from University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, General Editor, and Project Director for Tepe Yahya, is the Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Peabody Museum (Director 1977–1990)
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