Tomosvaryella frontata ( Becker, 1897 )

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 : 30-31

Tomosvaryella frontata ( Becker, 1897)

Fig. 51

Diagnosis. Following Hardy (1967), this species can be recognized by syntergosternite 8, wider than long, without membranous area; epandrium wider than long; symmetrical surstyli, slightly rectangular-shaped, almost twice as wide as long, blunt at apices ( Hardy, 1967: fig. 6).

Distribution: Egypt, France, Israel, Italy, Malta, Morocco, Palestine, Romania, Spain, Tunisia ( Skevington 2020) ( Fig. 51 ).

Note: This species has been reared from Tamarix leafhopper, Opsius stactogalus Fieber, 1866 , in France ( Hardy, 1967).

Figures

FIGURE 51. Distribution of Tomosvaryella bistounensis sp. nov., T. emaratensis sp. nov., T. frontata, T. gazliensis, T. hamata, T. hamounensis sp. nov. in the Middle East.