Sphegina culex is a species of hoverfly in the family Syrphidae found in Kambaiti Pass, Myanmar, a montane forest with swampy areas and streams located 2000 meters above sea level.[1]
| Sphegina culex | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Genus: | Sphegina |
| Subgenus: | Asiosphegina |
| Species: | S. culex
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| Binomial name | |
| Sphegina culex Hippa, Steenis & Mutin, 2015[1]
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Etymology
editThe name comes from Latin 'culex', meaning 'mosquito', referring to the mosquito-like appearance of the fly.[1]
Description
editLike other species in its genus, S. culex is small and slender, though unlike them it bears a mosquito-like appearance. In male specimens, the body length is 4.6–4.9 millimeters. The wings are 4.4–4.8 millimeters long, hyaline, with very pale stigma. The face is strongly concave with a weakly developed frontal prominence. The face and gena are dark; frons and vertex black and semi-shiny; lunula shiny brown; occiput dull black; antenna dark brown, basal flagellomere baso-ventrally reddish; thorax black; pro- and mesoleg yellow, tarsomeres 4 and 5 black; metaleg with coxa brownish, trochanter yellow; metafemur blackish, basal 1/3 yellow; metatibia without apico-ventral tooth, colour yellow, the apical 1/4 black and an obscure brownish annulus on the basal 1/2; tarsus black. No female specimens are known.[1]
Related Species
editS. culex is similar to S. pollex, though it differs by having a large (instead of small) membranous incision at the posterior margin of male sternite IV, and by lacking a thumb-like subbasal sublobe located dorso-medially on the dorsal lobe of the surstylus. Both species have superior lobes similar to S. achaeta's, but the postero-dorsal lobe-like part is rounded (acute in S. achaeta).[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e Hippa, H.; Steenis, J. van; Mutin, V.A. (2015). "The genus Sphegina Meigen (Diptera, Syrphidae) in a biodiversity hotspot: the thirty-six sympatric species in Kambaiti, Myanmar". Zootaxa. 3954: 1–67. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3954.1.1. PMID 25947834. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
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