Peleteria. 



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Of the genus about 18 palæarctic species are recorded; 3 have 

 becn found in Denmark. 



Table of Species. 



1. Abdomen without discai bristles {Peleteria s. str.) 2. 



— Abdomen with discai bristles (Chaetopeleteria Mik) 3. Popelii. 



2. Antennæ black; cheeks very broad, as broad as the eye. . 1. mgricornis. 



— Antennæ with the two first joints red; cheeks much nar- 



rower 2. ferina. 



1. P. nigricornis Meig. 



1838. Meig. Syst. Beschr. VII, 182, 8 {EcUnomyia). — 1910. Villen. 

 Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr. 1910, 311. — 1921. Baer, Zeitschr. f. angew. Ent. VII, 

 130. — 1924. Stein, Arch. f. Naturgesch. 90, 6, 46, 2. — Tachina fera 1820. 

 Fall. Dipt. Suec. Muse. 4, p. p. var. g. — E. tessellata 1844. Zett. (nec. Fabr.) 

 Dipt. Scand. III, 967, 6. — 1862. Schin. F. A. I, 424. — 1896. Pand. Rev. 

 Entom. XV, 77, 8, p. p. — P. proinpta p. p. 1907. Kat. palåarkt. Dipt. III, 200. 



Male. Frons above broader than the eye; cheeks as broad as 

 the eye, and jowls almost as broad as the eye is high. Orbits greyish, 

 below together with face and jowls silvery white, the intermediate 

 triangle yellowish ; frontal stripe reddish, seen from in front somewhat 

 whitish pruinose. Orbits and outer part 

 of cheeks with fine black hairs; below 

 on cheeks, at the eye-margin, a couple 

 (2 — 4) of bristles. Jowls with black bristly 

 hairs. Occiput grey, with dense yellow 

 hairs. Antennæ black, second joint some- 

 what longer than third, the latter longer 

 than broad; arista with the two basal 

 joints elongated. Palpi very thin, yellow, 

 with small black bristles, especially at 

 apex. Thorax black, greyish pruinose, 

 with four stripes, the median narrow, 

 diverging, disappearing behind the suture, 

 the lateral broader; scutellum reddish at 



apex, or quite reddish. Thorax black-haired; four postsutural dorso- 

 centrals, and two or three præ- and three (or four) postsutural acrosti- 

 chals. Abdomen red, with a rather narrow, sometimes interrupted, 

 black middle stripe, somewhat incised at the incisures, on fifth seg- 

 ment occupying the whole hind margin; seen from behind the seg- 

 ments are more or less whitish pruinose on front part, sometimes 



Fig. 90. P. nigricornis ^ , 

 antenna. 



