Tomosvaryella angulata Kehlmaier & Majnon-Jahromi, 2017

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 : 14-16

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

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persistent identifier

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scientific name

Tomosvaryella angulata Kehlmaier & Majnon-Jahromi, 2017
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Tomosvaryella angulata Kehlmaier & Majnon-Jahromi, 2017 View in CoL

Figs 4A‒E View FIGURE 4 , 50 View FIGURE 50

Diagnosis: This species can be recognized by the shape of surstyli, both apically knobbed in dorsal view ( Fig. 4A View FIGURE 4 ) and bent strictly towards the abdominal sternites in lateral view ( Fig. 4D‒E View FIGURE 4 ); phallus trifid and unequal, one with tooth-like projections in basal half ( Fig. 4D‒E View FIGURE 4 ); phallic guide short and broad ( Fig. 4D‒E View FIGURE 4 ); gonopods slightly unequal in height, left is slightly higher than right ( Fig. 4B View FIGURE 4 ). The female is described and illustrated in Majnon-Jahromi et al. (2017b).

Specimens examined: IRAN: Sistan & Baluchestan: Saravan , 27°25’N, 62°17’E, 12.v.2013, F. Hamzavi GoogleMaps ,

Malaise trap, JSS51917 (1♂, CNC) ; Kermanshah : Sarpolezahab, 34°28’N, 45°49’E, 456 m a.s.l., 14.v.2016, M. Zardouei, Malaise trap, JSS52190 (1♂, CNC) GoogleMaps ; Khuzestan : Shush, 32°06’N, 48°26’E, 68 m a.s.l., 11.iii–10.v.2015, E. Gilasian, Malaise trap, JSS52192 (1♀, CNC) GoogleMaps ; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Barqa Al Suqoor Protected Area , 23°59’N, 52°40’E, 29.iii.2018, A. Saji & A. van Harten, Malaise trap, JSS52275 (1♂, CNC) GoogleMaps .

Distribution: Iran, United Arab Emirates ( Skevington 2020) ( Fig. 50 View FIGURE 50 ).

Note: Based on DNA barcoding, this species is most similar to T. pseudophanes ( Perkins, 1905) , differing by 8.3% (pairwise divergence). Intraspecific variation ranges from 0.1 to 3.2% (Supplementary Table 1).

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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