. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. pepsestae: tribe pepsini 17 PYRRHOMELAS GROUP Head and body usually dull, with dense, small, adjacent setiferous punctures and with the clothing hairs unusually dense and fine. (Certain parts of the body in one or both sexes may be shiny.) Anal lobe about as long as the submediella; fifth tarsal segment of female usually with discal bristles beneath; front tarsal claws of male with a long declined tooth (the tooth is especially long on the outer claw), the rest of the claws of both sexes with a short, more or less erect tooth; teeth on
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. pepsestae: tribe pepsini 17 PYRRHOMELAS GROUP Head and body usually dull, with dense, small, adjacent setiferous punctures and with the clothing hairs unusually dense and fine. (Certain parts of the body in one or both sexes may be shiny.) Anal lobe about as long as the submediella; fifth tarsal segment of female usually with discal bristles beneath; front tarsal claws of male with a long declined tooth (the tooth is especially long on the outer claw), the rest of the claws of both sexes with a short, more or less erect tooth; teeth on outer side of hind tibia of female smaU, but sharp and distinct; male abdomen with an evident constriction between the first two tergites; male subgenital plate usually spherically concave, hairy, with the marginal hairs longer to make a fimbriate border (exception: C. deceptus). The species included are the Nearctic deceptus, pyrrhomelas, maculi- pennis, heiligbrodtii, feroculis, and validus. 3. Chirodamus deceptus (Banks) Priocnemis decepta Banks, 1926, Canadian Ent., vol. 58, p. 201, (9 ]. Type: 9 , Fedor, Lee Countj, Tex. (Cambridge). Male: Fore wing 9 mm. long; temple as long as the eye (about as long as the eye in all other Nearctic species of the group except. Figure 4.—Localities for Chirodamus deceptus. (I heiligbrodtii) tooth on outer claw of fore tarsus about as long as the part of the claw beyond it, the two parts widely separated basally but somewhat convergent apically; mesopleuron a little shining, with dense fine punctures and scattered indistinct larger punctures; ab- domen with a very weak constriction between the first and second tergites; apical margin of fifth sternite weakly concave; subgenital. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum;
Size: 1843px × 1356px
Photo credit: © Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorun, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, booksubjectscience
