You are here
Leptogastrinae
Lasiocnemus obscuripennis (Loew, 1851)
Nomenclature
-
Tribe: LeptogastriniGenus: Lasiocnemus
Media
SUMMARY
Head: Black; face silver pruinose, facial swelling indistinct, mystax white, many macrosetae; proboscis and palpi black, setae black; occiput grey pruinose, setae white or yellow. Antennae: scape brown, brown setae ventrally, apruinose; pedicel brown, brown setae dorsally and ventrally, grey pruinose; postpedicel brown, grey pruinose; stylus brown, slightly longer than postpedicel; apical 'seta-like' sensory element brown. Thorax: Black, anepisternum and dorsal half of katepisternum and anepimeron grey pruinose, remaining parts brown pruinose, anepisternum and katepisternum setae yellow; scutum black, predominantly apruinose, margins grey pruinose, surface covered with yellow setae, yellow setae on pruinose part laterally and yellow and brown setae posteriorly; macrosetae: black, 1 notopleural seta, 1 supra-alar seta; scutellum grey pruinose, discal scutellar and scutellar setae long, brown. Legs: brown; coxa brown pruinose; prothoracic and mesothoracic femora with erect yellow setae anteriorly and dorsally, metathoracic femora with erect brown setae on all surfaces but yellow proximo-anteriorly and proximo-dorsally, clubbed and widest sub-distally; tibiae with erect yellow setae on all surfaces, prothoracic tibiae with yellow cleaning setae in distal half ventrally, metathoracic tibiae with brown setae proximally and dorsally, yellow setae distally; tarsomeres with black setae, first metathoracic tarsomere with yellow setae postero-ventrally; empodium three-quarters to nearly length of claw. Wings: length = 7.7–9.0 mm; cell d densely covered with microtrichia, wing pattern similar to Lasiocnemus lugens, but only cell r1 with white spot in distal part of wing; halter brown. Abdomen: Black; abdominal tergites only narrowly brown pruinose anteriorly and grey pruinose posteriorly, abdominal tergite 2 in proximal half with long white setae laterally, remaining abdominal tergites with short white setae, abdominal sternite 2 in proximal half apruinose and in distal half grey pruinose, abdominal sternites 3–4 brown pruinose.