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C55BE1466B39FF9AFF6AFD9D1FCDF9A7.text	C55BE1466B39FF9AFF6AFD9D1FCDF9A7.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Habropogon storozhenkoi Sakhvon & Proshchalykin 2025	<div><p>Habropogon storozhenkoi Sakhvon, sp. nov.</p><p>(Figs 1–9)</p><p>Specimens examined. Holotype — ♂, Kazakhstan: Jetisu Region, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=78.480835&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=43.940556" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 78.480835/lat 43.940556)">Altyn-Emel National Park</a>, Mynbulak, [43 o 56′26′′N 78 o 28′51′′E], 4.IV.2024, leg. V. Sakhvon (BSU) . Paratypes: 1♂, 1♀, same data as for the holotype, (BSU) .</p><p>Diagnosis. Body length 11.0–12.0 mm. Mystacal macrosetae white; upper margin of mystax reaches middle of eye. Orbital, ocellar and postocular setae white. Thorax black. Scutum with sparse long and white setae (Figs 1, 3). 1 notopleural, 2–3 supraalar, 2 postalar macrosetae white. Scutellum with more than 20 long and white apical macrosetae. Legs reddish brown, with black stripe. Tergites black with white setae. Tergites I–V posteriorly and laterally reddish. Hypopygium large and mostly black. Cerci large and black, curved towards outside at the apex (Fig. 1). Acanthophorite spines brown (Figs 7, 8).</p><p>Description. Male. Head black. Face with silvery tomentum. Mystax, in lateral view, with dense white macrosetae and setae reaching the apex of proboscis. Upper margin of mystax reaches middle of eye. Distance from upper margin of mystax to antennal sockets equal or less than length of scape and pedicel combined (Figs 1, 3). Frons with silvery tomentum. Palpus black with long white setae reaching the apex of proboscis. Scape brownish with numerous white and long macrosetae. Pedicel reddish yellow with few white macrosetae. Postpedicel brown, narrow at the base and expanded from the middle to apex. Length of postpedicel in 1.5 time longer than length of scape and pedicel combined. Style narrow with seta-like sensory element; equal to half of scape in length. Orbital setae long and white. Ocellar setae short and white. Postocular setae white, equal to length of scape and pedicel combined. Lower occipital setae white (Figs 1, 3).</p><p>Thorax black. Scutum mainly bronze tomentose, partly silvery. Acrostichal stripe and intermediate spots with brown tomentum. Scutum with sparse long and white setae. Pleuron with bronze tomentum, without setae, only anepisternum with long white setae dorsally. Katatergite with long white macrosetae. Dorsocentral macrosetae absent. 1 notopleural, 2–3 supraalar, 2 postalar macrosetae white. Scutellum with row long and white apical macrosetae (more than 20). Scutellar disk with bronze tomentum, without setae (Figs 1, 2).</p><p>Wings clear, veins brown (Fig. 2).</p><p>Legs. Coxae black with bronze tomentum and white setae. Trochanters reddish yellow. Femora reddish brown, with black stripe dorsally and with white long setae. Hind femur with white long setae and row white macrosetae ventrally. Tibiae reddish brown with black stripe dorsally and with white setae and macrosetae. Tarsi black with white setae and macrosetae. Claws black and yellow at base. Pulvillus well developed, yellowish, equal to 2/3 of claw length (Figs 1, 3).</p><p>Abdomen. Tergites and sternites black with bronze and greyish tomentum, and white setae. Tergites, in dorsal view, with medial stripe without setae. Tergites I–V posteriorly and laterally reddish (Figs 1, 2).</p><p>Hypopygium mostly black, slightly curved, wide than abdomen in dorsal view (Figs 1, 2). Epandrium brown at base with white setae. Gonopod brown with white setae. Gonostyle distinctly curved at a right angle in the middle. Cerci large and black, curved towards outside at the apex. Aedeagus small-sized. Aedeagal apodeme shorter than endoaedeagal process (Figs 4–6).</p><p>Body length 11.0–12.0 (holotype 12.0) mm.</p><p>Female. Similar to male. Body length 12 mm. Acanthophorite spines brown (Figs 7, 8).</p><p>Etymology. The species is named after Prof. Sergei Yuryevich Storozhenko, a well-known Russian entomologist who made a great contribution to the study of orthopteroid insects.</p><p>Habitat. Habropogon storozhenkoi sp. nov. was collected in a semi-desert area characterised by sparse herbaceous vegetation and low shrubs. Robber flies prefer open ground without vegetation (Fig. 9).</p><p>Distribution. Only known from the type locality in Altyn-Emel National Park, Jetisu Region, Kazakhstan.</p><p>Remarks. The male of new species is similar to that of Habropogon lehri Sakhvon, 2017, but differs by having a larger hypopygium (smaller in H. lehri), by long and curved at the apex cerci (wide and straight H. lehri), by numerous (more than 20) apical macrosetae on scutellum (less than 15 in H. lehri). The male of new species is also similar to that of Habropogon malkovskii Lehr, 1964, but differs by distance from upper margin of mystax to antennal sockets (equal or less than length of scape and pedicel combined in new species and equal to length of scape in H. malkovskii), by white orbital, ocellar and postocular setae (yellow and brown in H. malkovskii), by absent of dorsocentral macrosetae (2–3 dorsocenral macrosetae cross transverse suture in H. malkovskii), by reddish brown with black stripe dorsally fore- and mid-tibiae (reddish brown tibiae in H. malkovskii), by long and curved at the apex cerci (not curved cerci H. malkovskii).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C55BE1466B39FF9AFF6AFD9D1FCDF9A7	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Sakhvon, Vital V.;Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu.	Sakhvon, Vital V., Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu. (2025): New species of the genus Habropogon Loew, 1847 (Diptera: Asilidae) from Kazakhstan. Zootaxa 5715 (1): 400-406, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5715.1.33, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5715.1.33
C55BE1466B39FF9FFF6AFF5A1DADFE71.text	C55BE1466B39FF9FFF6AFF5A1DADFE71.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Habropogon Loew 1847	<div><p>Genus Habropogon Loew, 1847</p><p>Habropogon Loew, 1847: 463; Engel 1930: 386; Lehr 1960: 180; Richter 1969: 518; Lehr 1988: 240; 1999: 638; Hradský &amp; Geller-Grimm 2005: 1; Astakhov 2015: 58; Sakhvon &amp; Lelej 2017: 417.</p><p>Type species. Dasypogon exquisitus Wiedemann in Meigen, 1820, by subsequent designation of Coquillett 1910: 548.</p><p>Key to males of the genus Habropogon from Kazakhstan</p><p>1. Tarsomere 5 of mesothoracic leg normal, without modified setae............................................... 2</p><p>– Tarsomere 5 of mesothoracic leg with modified setae.............................. H. appendiculatus Schiner, 1867</p><p>2. Distance between mystax and antennal sockets equal to or less than combined length of scape and pedicel.............. 3</p><p>– Distance between mystax and antennal sockets wider than combined length of scape and pedicel.................................................................................................... H. mesasiaticus Lehr, 1960</p><p>3. Anepisternum dorsally with or without setae............................................................... 4</p><p>– Anepisternum dorsally with row of macrosetae....................................... H. longiventris Loew, 1871</p><p>4. Scutum with only white setae........................................................................... 5</p><p>– Scutum with mostly black setae..................................................... H. montanus Lehr, 1960</p><p>5. Hypopygium equal to or barely wider than last tergites in dorsal view........................................... 6</p><p>– Hypopygium is large and more than 1.5 times wider than last tergites in dorsal view................................ 7</p><p>6. Distance between mystax and antennal sockets equal to or less than combined length of scape and pedicel. Fore- and mid-femur reddish brown without black stripe or with only stripe dorsally............................. H. deserticola Lehr, 1960</p><p>– Upper margin of mystax nearly reaching antennal sockets. Fore- and mid-femur reddish brown with black stripes anterodorsally and dorsally...................................................................... H. latifrons Loew, 1871</p><p>7. Distance between mystax and antennal sockets equal to length of scape. Dorsocentral macrosetae well developed, 2–3 dorsocenral macrosetae cross transverse suture. Fore- and mid-femur reddish brown without black stripes. Cerci long and straight......................................................................... H. malkovskii Lehr, 1964</p><p>– Distance between mystax and antennal sockets equal to or less than combined length of scape and pedicel. Dorsocentral macrosetae absent. Fore- and mid-femur reddish brown with black stripes. Cerci long and curved at the apex.................................................................................... H. storozhenkoi Sakhvon, sp. nov.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C55BE1466B39FF9FFF6AFF5A1DADFE71	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Sakhvon, Vital V.;Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu.	Sakhvon, Vital V., Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu. (2025): New species of the genus Habropogon Loew, 1847 (Diptera: Asilidae) from Kazakhstan. Zootaxa 5715 (1): 400-406, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5715.1.33, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5715.1.33
