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Hilara maura |
| Subspecies Original description Synonyms Empis maura Fabricius, 1776 (nec Macquart, 1838) Hilara maura (Fabricius, 1776) Platyhilara maura (Fabricius, 1776) Asilus crassipes Fourcroy, 1785 Hilara crassipes (Fourcroy, 1785) Bibio senilis Panzer, 1798 (Heft 54, p. 3) (nomen dubium, see note below) Hilara senilis (Panzer, 1798) Empis simplex Wiedemann, 1817 (nomen dubium) Hilara simplex (Wiedemann, 1817) Hilara globulipes Meigen, 1822 Hilara globuliceps auct. (lapsus pro globulipes) Note: Platyhilara is mostly regarded as a subgenus of Hilara. Yang et al. (2007) elevate it to genus level. However, they do not provide evidence that by excluding Platyhilara from Hilara the remaining Hilara is not rendered paraphyletic. I thus do not follow this notion here and keep the present species in Hilara. Note: Bibio senilis has been described by Panzer (1798) and cannot be identified confidently. From the figure in Panzer´s work it is clearly a species of Hilara. It has been tentatively assigned to Hilara pruinosa by Chvala and Wagner (in Soos and Papp 1989) and Yang et al. (2007), and synonymized with Hilara maura by Macquart (1834). I do not agree with the notion that it is identical with Hilara pruinosa. The males of all species of Hilara have a thickened first tarsal segment in the prothoracic legs; but Hilara maura has greatly swollen tarsi. This is also clearly seen in the specimen figured by Panzer and thus Bibio senilis is here assigned to Hilara maura as suggested by Macquart (1834). Note: Empis simplex is a nomen dubium. Chvala and Wagner (in Soos and Papp 1989) suggest that this name denotes a species of the Hilara maura species group. I list the name here provisionally in the synonymy of Hilara maura. Identification Distribution Biology This page has been updated on January 28, 2012 This site is online since May 31, 2005 Copyright © by Nikola-Michael Prpic. All rights reserved. |
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