Tomosvaryella transvaalensis De Meyer, 1993

Motamedinia, Behnam, Skevington, Jeffrey H. & Kelso, Scott, 2021, Revision of Tomosvaryella Aczél (Diptera: Pipunculidae) in the Middle East, with description of 19 new species, Zootaxa 5002 (1), pp. 1-103 : 76

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5002.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5122613

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A887D0-5F09-FFC2-FF3E-EBD5FEA74DB5

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scientific name

Tomosvaryella transvaalensis De Meyer, 1993
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Tomosvaryella transvaalensis De Meyer, 1993 View in CoL

Figs 42A‒E View FIGURE 42 , 64 View FIGURE 64

Diagnosis: This species can be recognized by the shape of surstyli in dorsal view, constricted in middle, knobshaped apically ( Fig. 42A View FIGURE 42 ); epandrium wider than long in dorsal view ( Fig. 42A View FIGURE 42 ); phallus with three ejaculatory ducts, one longer, coiled, bearing small setae in lateral view ( Fig. 42D‒E View FIGURE 42 ); gonopods equal in height ( Fig. 42B View FIGURE 42 ), hypandrium ovate-shaped with distinct hypandrial apodeme in ventral view ( Fig. 42B View FIGURE 42 ).

Specimens examined: ISRAEL: Nahal Lavan , 30°51’N, 34°36’E, 30.iv.1996, I. Yarom, JSS51786 (1♂, TAU); Sede Halamish, 31°00’N, 35°07’E, 30.iv.1996, A. Freidberg, JSS52093 (1♂, CNC) GoogleMaps .

Distribution: Israel, South Africa ( Fig. 64 View FIGURE 64 ).

Note: This sort of disjunct distribution raises some questions. Could this be a crypic pair of species? Is the gap caused by collecting bias? These questions can only be answered by more field work to try to fill gaps, and molecular work to test existing species concepts. We attempted to sequence these specimens but failed. More work is needed.

TAU

Tel-Aviv University

CNC

Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and Nematodes

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Pipunculidae

Genus

Tomosvaryella

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