Senotainia (s. str.) paradeserta Verves and Khrokalo, 2021

Verves, Yuriy G. & Khrokalo, Liudmyla, 2021, Review of the genus Senotainia Macquart, 1846 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) of the Middle East, Journal of Natural History 54 (37 - 38), pp. 2489-2512 : 2500-2501

Senotainia (s. str.) paradeserta Verves and Khrokalo , sp. n. (Figure 6 (a-k))

Material

Type. Holotype: ♂: Egypt: Sinai, Wadi Tarba , 25.05 .1971 (A. Freidberg) . Deposited in TAU. Paratype: ♀: Israel: Hikor , 30.06 .1958 (J. Kugler) . Deposited in TAU.

Differential diagnosis

This species is similar to S. deserta Rohdendorf, 1935 by two pairs of strong proclinate orb, bare parafronto-orbital and parafacial plates, and the yellow palpi; it differs by entirely yellow antennae and the presence of lateral brownish yellow translucent areas on all abdominal tergites.

Body length 6.5 mm.

Male (Figures 6 (a-b)). ‒ Head (Figures 6 (c-d)). Black, light silvery yellow dusted, at vertex blackish. Frontal vitta in anterior part yellow, almost without pruinescence. Antennae entirely yellow, slightly grey dusted, arista black; palpi yellow. Frons at vertex 0.37×, at level of antennal base 0.41× head-width. Frontal vitta 2.1× widened backwards, at level of fore orb 2.2× as wide as fronto-orbital plate. First flagellomere 1.6× as long as pedicel, arista widened in basal 0.2–0.3. Parafacial plate at level of antennal base 0.25×, genae 0.18× of eye height. Palpi long, not widened at apex. Two regular rows of porb; vte strong, 0.5× as long as vti; oc strong and long; orb 1 + 2, strong; fr 8, strong and crossed; fronto-orbital and facial plates almost bare, with several fine erect black setae near antennal base. Above vi vibrissalia bare. Black oral bristles numerous, strong; genae and occiput black setose. ‒ Thorax (Figures 6 (a-b)). Mesonotum dark, ash-grey dusted, longitudinal stripes unclear; pleurae light grey dusted. Dorsal surface and pleurae covered with middle long black erect setae; acr 3 + 2, only prescutellar ones strong; dc 2 + 3, strong; ia 1 + 2, h 2–3, pprn 2, npl 2, notopleural surface bare; kepst 1 + 1, upper part of sternopleural surface covered with numerous black long erect hairs. Scuttelum with 3 pairs of long marg and one pair of ds. ‒ Wings (Figure 6 (f)). Hyaline, basicosta and epaulette yellow. Costal spine absent, r5 narrowly open, R4+5 with a single seta at base, M right-angled, dm-cu s-like curved, the ratio of lengths of 3rd and 5th costal sections of C is 1: 1.8. ‒ Legs. Entirely black; t2 with one ad. ‒ Abdomen (Figure 6 (a-b)). Black, silvery grey dusted, with lateral brownish yellow translucent areas on all tergites. Dorsal surface of 1st + 2nd tergite entirely black; 3rd – 5th tergites everyone with three triangular black spots in hind 0.4–0.5. All abdominal tergites with full rows of marg. Terminalia light brown (Figure 6 (g)).

Female differs from ♂ by yellowish dusted parafrontalia and darkened arista (Figure 6 (h-i)); by absence of terminal section of Cu (Figure 6 (k)) and by abdominal drawing: all tergites with dark longitudinal median stripe, without lateral spots and translucent areas at tergites.

Etymology

The species epitet refers the similarity this species to Senotainia deserta and formed from ‘deserta’ and the Greek word para ‒ near.

Distribution

Palaearctic: Asia: Egypt, Israel.