Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Neomochtherus sp. female

Posted by Armen Seropian on 27-07-2019 12:27
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Quaedfliegh wrote:
Please go on translating!!!!! Thank you :-) I do not want to make things more difficult but genus has been devided some more by Lehr in 1996 genus like Aneomochtherus named after N. asiaticus.

Very often, if not all of the time you need males to ID the species


There's a pic of male above (unfortunately not the clearest one).

As for the translation, it takes time :| Here comes the fourth species from the monograph. If needed, I'll attach drawings of genitalia from it a bit later.

4. Neomochtherus manni (accepted name - Cerdistus manni)

Face, frons and vertex covered with dense yellow-whitish dust; posterior part of head covered with silver-whitish dust; frons laterally with short white and black hair; ocellar bristles short and black; distance between facial gibbosity and antennae base equals the total length of antennae 2 basal segments; facial beard consists of white bristles with some black ones on its upper margin; palpus brown-blackish with white hair; occiput and“whiskers”with white bristles; antennae brown-blackish, first two basal segments with light-silver dust and black hair; 3-rd segment shorter then total length of two basal segments; arista longer then third segment.
Mesonotum in grey dense dust, short white and black hair; mesonotum bristles white and black.
Legs yellow, with black and white hair and long bristles; femur from the anterior side with a more or less well developed wide black band; claws black, with yellow base.
Wings transparent, a bit yellowish; medial transverse vein located above the middle of the discoid cell.
Tergites medially in yellowish dust and short black hair, laterally in grey dust, white hairs and bristles; sternites in grey dust and white hairs; with white lateral bristles; male’s 8-th sternite with straight hind margin.
Hypopygium yellow-reddish; both halves of the epandrium covered in black hairs; in the middle of the medial margin with two thin protrusions in front of the apex, on the top also with a rounded lamellar projection.
Body length – 9 mm.
Distribution: Transcaucasia, Asia Minor

Edited by Armen Seropian on 28-07-2019 17:38