Palearctic D. C. Graham

Description

Hybomitra nura Philip, n. sp. A shaggy blackish species with bright orange vestiture on abdomen and tibiae, that is near enough to the preceding that it can be adequately described by the differences (hence the name meaning kin). Holotype #F, 17 mm. Frons wider, index 1 : 1.7, ocelligerous tubercle flatter, basal callosity wider than tall, finely rugoss, without upward extension. Subcallus shallower, shining black, border above and laterally with dark pollen, and 2 large brown crescents above antennal bases. Beard and pleura white-haired, notal and scutellar pile sparse orangeand black-haired. Legs bi-colored, femora and apical 1/4 of fore tibiae black, remainder of tibiae bright orange, vestiture concolorous. Wings subhyaline, costal cell pale yellow, isolated clouds not as prominent. Abdomen not as densely orange-haired so that the wider reddish-orange sides of tergites 2 and 3 are revealed enclosing a serrated median black band; sternites 1 and 2 pale yellow-haired, remainder orange as above. No terminal yellow hairs. Holotype #F (USNM), Szechwan, China, 15 km SW of Tatsienlu, 25 to 27-VI-1923.[Label H] HOLOTYPE Hybomitra nura n.sp. #F C.B.Philip'61; [Label 1] Szechuen CHINA DCGraham; [Label 2] 9 mi.SW of Tatsienlu Jun. 25-7, '23 8500-13000 ft18 Mar 20201

Record Contributed By

NMNH - Entomology Dept

Record Harvested From

Smithsonian Institution