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Image of <i>Salwaea burgensis</i> Winterton, Hauser & Badrawy 2012
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Salwaea burgensis Winterton, Hauser & Badrawy 2012

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Body Length= 6.5 mm (female). Head. Head very wide, 2x head length (excluding antennae); eyes widely separated, frons width at narrowest point 3x width of ocellar tubercle; eye relatively small and globose; frons broadly concave, glossy brown with glaucous (pale bluish) grey pubescence, irregular raised callosities around antennal base and along eye lower margin, callosities with dark erect setae of varying length; parafacial with silver pubescence and glabrous band between antennal base and eye margin; occiput broadly rounded convex with glaucous grey pubescence and scattered erect black macrosetae, longer macrosetae along postocular ridge, medium length on occiput admixed with very short setae; gena rounded with grey-silver pubescence, admixed with short, erect white setae, darker anteriorly, angular process projecting anteriorly from gena with short dark setae; mouthparts reduced, proboscis narrow, barely protruding from oral cavity, palpus not observed as oral cavity obscured; antenna 2× length of head; scape shorter than head length, glossy dark yellow, bulbous and non-symmetrical in lateral view, with dark erect macrosetae (longer ventrally), absent medially, sparse pubescence on medial surface; pedicel brown with row of erect dark macrosetae; flagellum length equal to head, basal flagellomere large, paddle-shaped, style terminal. Thorax. Cuticle dark yellow to brown with dense glaucous grey pubescence, scutum with diffuse medial stripe and light brown patches laterally on prescutal area and supra-alar callus; scutal pile as short dark setae; scutellum dark yellow, overlain with uniform grey pubescence; pleuron dense glaucous grey pubescent with short pale setae on postpronotum, postcervical sclerite, anepisternum, and katatergite; coxae grey glaucous pubescent with short pale setae on anterior surfaces, macrosetae few in number, black; legs dark brown with short dark setae; basitarsus equal length to remaining tarsomeres combined; tarsal segments with short macrosetae apically; tarsal claws short, straight, elongate terminal setae extending from apical segment (one setae on fore and mid leg, three setae on hind leg); haltere stem light brown, knob cream; wing membrane smoky infuscate due to dense microtrichia, darker anteriorly around pterostigma; scutal chaetotaxy (macrosetae pairs): notopleural, 3; supra alar, 1; post alar, 1; dorsocentral, 2; scutellar, 1. Abdomen. Cuticle glossy dark brown, posterior margins and intersegmental membranes of all segment yellow to white, tergites dark yellow along narrow posterolaterally margin; sparse short dark setae on all segments, denser posteriorly and on terminalia. Female genitalia. Acanthophorite spines reduced in size; sternite 8 emarginate along posterior margin, upturned and strongly convex with elongate setae admixed with shorter setae; furca rectangular, broad at base with two openings.
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Shaun L. Winterton, Martin Hauser, Haitham B.M. Badrawy
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Winterton S, Hauser M, Badrawy H (2012) A remarkable new genus of stiletto flies from Egypt, with a key to Palaearctic genera of Phycinae (Diptera, Therevidae) ZooKeys 184: 35–45
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Shaun L. Winterton
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Martin Hauser
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Haitham B.M. Badrawy
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