Aphaniosoma scutellare Ebejer, 1998

Ebejer, Martin J., 2023, The genus Aphaniosoma Becker, 1903 (Diptera: Chyromyidae) in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, with descriptions of new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 872, pp. 1-161 : 132

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2023.872.2131

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:05098E38-AB11-486E-8F28-8567DE6BC19C

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8018527

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/505487F2-B0C7-FF55-FDFF-FE4E0FE13ED8

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scientific name

Aphaniosoma scutellare Ebejer, 1998
status

 

Aphaniosoma scutellare Ebejer, 1998 View in CoL

Fig. 75 View Fig

Material examined

EGYPT • 2 ♀♀; Alexandria, Abu Kir ; 20 Oct. 2003; P. Gatt leg.; beach, wrack; PG 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀, preserved in alcohol; same collection data as for preceeding; MJE .

Remarks

A species described from Turkey and later reported from Germany. The species is distinctive when the pale scutellum contrasts with the uniformly dark grey scutum and the dark basal flagellomere ( Fig. 75A View Fig ), but completely grey specimens and others with a yellow basal flagellomere do occur (see above under A. notatum ). It shares characters with the creperum group of species on account of its dark colouration, the long pair of setae on the frons and in the male, the shape of the postgonite: a narrow, curved, dark, blunt-ended structure often easily seen without dissection. It also shares the ‘globular’ appearance of the epandrium, as seen in situ ( Fig. 76B View Fig ), with A. notatum and A. proximum (see above under A. notatum ). It is identified from the shape of the ventro-lateral margin of tergite 6, which is narrowed at its lower antero-lateral angle, and from the shape of the pregenital sternite, which is irregularly hexagonal in shape bearing a broad ventrally directed lobe from each antero-lateral margin ( Ebejer 1998: 222, figs 68–70). It is not a common species.

Distribution

Cyprus, Germany, Turkey ( Ebejer 1998, 2021a; Bährmann 2006). New record for Egypt.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

SubOrder

Brachycera

Family

Chyromyidae

Genus

Aphaniosoma

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