Archive image from page 90 of Diptera Danica genera and species Diptera Danica: genera and species of flies hitherto found in Denmark dipteradanicage01lund Year: 1907 Xylophagidae. 81 Of the genus 6 species are known from the palaearctic region, one of which has hitherto been found in Denmark. 1. X. maculata Meig. 1804. Xylophagiis, Meig. Klass. zweifl. Ins. I, 154, 2. — 1842. Xylo- phagus, Zett. Dipt. Scand. I. 129, 3. — 1862. Subula, Schin. F. A. I, 26. — 1903. Kat. palaarkt. Dipt. II, 42. Male. Front with short greyish pubescence, a dark, transverse band somewhat above the antennae; palpi
Archive image from page 90 of Diptera Danica genera and species Diptera Danica: genera and species of flies hitherto found in Denmark dipteradanicage01lund Year: 1907 Xylophagidae. 81 Of the genus 6 species are known from the palaearctic region, one of which has hitherto been found in Denmark. 1. X. maculata Meig. 1804. Xylophagiis, Meig. Klass. zweifl. Ins. I, 154, 2. — 1842. Xylo- phagus, Zett. Dipt. Scand. I. 129, 3. — 1862. Subula, Schin. F. A. I, 26. — 1903. Kat. palaarkt. Dipt. II, 42. Male. Front with short greyish pubescence, a dark, transverse band somewhat above the antennae; palpi yellow, sometimes the basal joint dark. Antennae dark brown, yellow below on the inner side. Thorax black, the humeral callus yellow, the yellow colour stretching some- what inwards on the disc; in the middle, just on the transverse furrow, there is a yellow, transverse stripe, widely interrupted in the middle, widened on the sides, and here connected with the yellow side band, and at the inner ends prolonged somewhat towards both ends, anteriorly sometimes so much as to form a narrow line, connected with the yellow anterior spot; the postalar callus yellow, this colour stretching forwardly somewhat in on the disc: on the upper margin of the pleura there is a yellow band, stretching from the humerus to the wing-root, and here much widened so that it reaches far down on the pleura. Scutellum yellow, only black at the base; metapleura yellow. Thorax with short, yellowish pubescence on the disc. Abdomen black with broad, yellow side spots on the first segment, the following Fig. 29. Wing of X. maculata. with yellow hind margins. Venter black with narrow, sometimes indistinct, yellow hind margins of the segments, except the first. Genitalia reddish yellow. Abdomen with short, dark pubescence, being pale on the yellow margins. Legs yellow; coxae and trochanteres black; hind femora and tibiae black at the tips; tarsi blackish or brown towards the ends, hind tarsi only to a
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