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 | author = Evenhuis, Neal L.
 | author_abbreviated = Evenhuis, Neal L.
 | year = 2002
 | title = Review of the Tertiary microbombyliids Diptera: Mythicomyiidae in Baltic, Bitterfeld, and Dominican amber
 | journal = Zootaxa
 | volume = 100
 | pages = 8 -- 10
 | doi = TODO
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{{Treatment start
 | Ordo = Diptera
 | Familia = Bombyliidae
 | Genus = Mythicomyia
 | Specific name = dominicana
 | Infraspecific name = 
 | Taxon rank = species
 | Taxon authority = Evenhuis
 | Taxon status = 
 | Nomenclature citation = {{Nomenclature citation| ''{{Taxon name|Mythicomyia dominicana}}'' Evenhuis, Neal L., 2002, Zootaxa 100: 8-10.}} 
 | Wikispecies page name = Mythicomyia_dominicana
 | ZooBank ID = 
 | Pensoft Profile = Mythicomyia_dominicana
}}

{{Section|class=diagnosis|heading = Diagnosis|content=DIAGNOSIS. Using the key to species of Nearctic species of {{Taxon name|Mythicomyia|''Mythicomyia''}} in Hall & Evenhuis (1987), this species runs to couplet 7 where it is stymied between {{Taxon name|Mythicomyia minuta|''minuta''}} Melander1 and bianca Tabet. It does not key to either because the scutellum in {{Taxon name|Mythicomyia dominicana|''M. dominicana''}} is entirely brown (bianca and {{Taxon name|Mythicomyia minuta|''minuta''}} have yellow markings on the scutellum).}}

{{Section|class=description|heading = Description|content=DESCRIPTION. Female (Fig. 7). Length: 1.70 mm. Head. Vertex, occiput, and mentum black; eyes dichoptic, separated at vertex by 1.5 x distance between lateral ocelli; front and face yellowish white, tip of oral margin brown; antennae brown; scape minute; pedicel cylindrical, slightly wider than long; first flagellomere linearlanceolate, length about 3.5 x greatest width; second flagellomere about 1 / 3 length of first flagellomere, with subapical sensillum; proboscis brown, thick, extending slightly beyond oral margin; palpus not evident.
Thorax. Mesonotum and scutellum dark brown, with evenly spaced short white hairs; humeral callus, post humeral area, supra alar area, and post alar callus yellow; pleura yellow above, dark brown below; coxae and basal 2 / 3 of femora dark brown; apical 1 / 3 of femora, all of tibiae, and tarsi yellow; halter stem and knob yellow.
Wing (Fig. 7). Hyaline; veins yellowish brown; costa ends slightly less than halfway between end of R 4 + 5 and M 1; vein Sc complete; Rs evanescent at connection with R 1; R 2 + 3 arising at apical 1 / 4 of Rs, slightly sinuous to junction with R 1; R 4 + 5 straight to wing margin, not curved; vein M 1 slightly curved toward wing margin; M 2 fairly straight to wing margin; A 1 fairly straight to wing margin, not curved or sinuous; fringe of hair on posterior margin of wing rather sparse.
Abdomen. Dorsum brown, with scattered white hairs; yellowish white laterally on tergites II–VII, sometimes extending medially as posterior fasciae, especially so on apical tergites; venter yellow. Genitalia not dissected.}}

{{Section|class=materials_examined|heading = Materials Examined|content=[[TYPE]]. [[Holotype]] female from [[DOMINICAN REPUBLIC]]: exact locality unknown, DR 11  9, purchased from Manuel Perez, deposited in AMNH. The [[holotype]] is in a rhomboidally cut amber piece approximately 5 mm x 8 mm preserved in a clear rhomboidal cube of artificial resin measuring about 12 x 8 mm.}}

{{Section|class=discussion|heading = Discussion|content=REMARKS. Since the unique [[type]] specimen is a female, it is impossible to ascertain subgeneric status (Mythastrabes or {{Taxon name|Mythicomyia|''Mythicomyia''}}) without dissection to examine the spermathecae. Male specimens can be placed to subgenus by the presence ({{Taxon name|Mythicomyia|''Mythicomyia''}}) or absence (Mythastrabes) of male secondary sexual character modifications of the legs. Thus, this species will have to remain as “unplaced to subgenus” until associated male specimens are found.}}

{{Section|class=etymology|heading = Etymology|content=ETYMOLOGY. The species is named for the country of its [[type]] locality on the island of Hispaniola.
{{Taxon name|Mythenteles baltica|''Mythenteles baltica''}} Evenhuis, sp.n.}}

{{Section|class=diagnosis|heading = Diagnosis|content=DIAGNOSIS. Males of this species are easily distinguished from the other species known in this genus by the striking thoracic pattern including admedian yellow vittae, yellow prescutellar area, yellow scutellum, and chiefly yellow pleura (these areas dark brown in other species of {{Taxon name|Mythenteles|''Mythenteles''}}). The female is all brown without any contrasting pale coloration (other species in the genus have at least yellow humeral calli or post alar calli).}}

{{Section|class=description|heading = Description|content=DESCRIPTION. [[Holotype]] female (Fig. 8). Length: 0.981.06 mm. Head. Black; occiput and vertex black; eyes dichoptic, separated at vertex by slightly more than distance between lateral ocelli; front depressed medially, yellowish; face yellowish, tip of oral margin brown; antennae black; scape minute; pedicel cylindrical, slightly wider than long; first flagellomere ovoid, length about 2.5 x greatest width; second flagellomere about 1 / 3 length of first, with apical style; venter of head brown, shiny; proboscis brown, short, length about 1 / 2 head height; labrum sclerotised, stiff, pointed apically; palpus not evident.
Thorax. Mesonotum and scutellum shining brown; coxae and legs brown; halter stem and knob brown.
Wing (Fig. 9). Hyaline; veins brown; costa just beyond vein R 4 + 5; vein Sc incomplete, ending at level just beyond origin of Rs; Rs evanescent at connection with R 1; R 4 + 5 straight to wing margin, not curved; vein separating cells br and bm distinct; crossvein rm at basal 1 / 3 of cell dm; vein M 1 slightly curved toward wing margin; M 2 fairly straight to wing margin; crossvein dmcu closing discal cell present; vein A 1 evanescent, present as a fold; sparse fringe of hair on posterior margin of wing rather long.
Abdomen. Terga and sterna all shining brown. Genitalia not dissected.
Male. Similar to female except as follows: the mesonotum is predominantly yellow with three longitudinal vittae as in Fig. 10. The genitalia have the epiphallic complex elongate and extending beyond the abdomen for a length approximately 1 / 2 the length of the abdomen (Fig. 11). The tip of the epiphallus is bifid implying that there are only two functional spermathecae in females (cf. Theodor, 1983: 29) and his remarks on an undescribed species of this genus from [[Israel]] which has a similar elongate bifid epiphallus and only two functional spermathecae.
[[TYPES]]. [[Holotype]] female from BALTIC REGION: exact locality unknown, BE-001. Currently deposited in NLE; to be deposited in MHNN (MHNN # 1708). [[Paratype|Paratypes]]. BAL- TIC REGION: 1 male, exact locality unknown, BE-002 (NLE); 1 male, exact locality unknown, BK-006 (OMK). The [[holotype]] is preserved in a clear polished yellowish orange amber piece approximately 15 x 8 mm without other inclusions.}}

{{Section|class=discussion|heading = Discussion|content=REMARKS. This is the first fossil representative of the genus {{Taxon name|Mythenteles|''Mythenteles''}}, which is known from described species occurring in [[Bangladesh]], montane [[India]], western [[China]], and the SW [[United States]]; and undescribed species from [[Greece]], [[Spain]], [[Cyprus]], [[Israel]], [[Mexico]], and California. The finding of this fossil representative gives support to the theory that this genus was once more widespread; and through time, possible glaciation events, and other calamities has been left with relictual distributions of its species.}}

{{Section|class=etymology|heading = Etymology|content=ETYMOLOGY. The specific epithet refers to the Baltic origin of the amber harboring this species.}}

==Taxon Treatment==
*{{aut|Evenhuis, Neal L.}}; 2002: Review of the Tertiary microbombyliids Diptera: Mythicomyiidae in Baltic, Bitterfeld, and Dominican amber, Zootaxa '''100''': 8-10. {{doi|TODO}}

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