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A New Species of Hilara from Arctic Canada (Diptera: Empidae)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

G. E. Shewell
Affiliation:
Systematic Entomology Unit, Entomology Division, Ottawa, Canada

Extract

Black, uniformly dark brown- or grey-pollinose. Thorax obscurely quadrivittate. Legs short-haired. Wings milk-white in both sexes.

Head black; frons and occiput, viewed from above, velvety with dark-brown tinge; bristles and hairs fine, black, the former about as long as third antennal segment less style. Antenna black, slightly shorter than head; style about half as long as third segment. Palpus and proboscis black.

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Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1955

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