Defilippia pharaonis ( Paramonov, 1928 ) Paramonov, 1928

El-Hawagry, Magdi S., 2016, Review of the genus Defilippia Lioy (Bombyliidae, Diptera) from Egypt, with description of a new species, new combinations, and a neotype designation for D. pharaonis (Paramonov, 1928), Zootaxa 4170 (1), pp. 149-158 : 157

Defilippia pharaonis ( Paramonov, 1928) comb. nov.

( Figs 18–19 )

Exoprosopa pharaonis Paramonov, 1928: 260 (82). Type locality: Egypt [3S (destroyed) in ESEC].

Distribution. AF: Egypt [as ”Gebel Elba”], Mali, Sudan. PA: Egypt, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia.

Egyptian localities. Eastern Desert : Ismailia, Wadi Digla; Gebel Elba: Wadi Akwametri, Wadi Edeib.

Dates of collection. March to August.

Neotype designation. Syntypes of this species have been destroyed in ESEC. Fortunately, 4 female specimens labeled as homeotypes were compared with syntypes of Exoprosopa pharaonis Paramonov by late Prof. Efflatoun Bey and deposited in EFC. To clarify the taxonomic status of the species and for nomenclatural stability, the best preserved of these homeotypes is here designated a neotype. It was collected from the type locality of E. pharaonis, Wadi Akwamtri (Gebel Elba, South Eastern Desert) on 5.v.1929.

Material examined. Neotype (here designated). ♀ W. Akwamtri, G. Elba, South Eastern Desert, 5.v.1929 (Tewfik). Other homeotypes compared with E. pharaonis by Prof. Efflatoun Bey . 2 ♀, same data as neotype ; 1 ♀, Gebel Elba, South Eastern Desert, 15 March to the end of April 1928 (Tewfik); deposited in EFC.

Diagnosis. Large flies, more than 13 mm; 2nd flagellomere about as long as width of the broad base of 1st flagellomere or slightly longer; frons and face with ochreous scales, becoming white at sides of face; collar, anepisternum, laterotergites, and sides of abdominal tergite 1 with distinctly pectinate macrochaetae; scales on thorax yellowish white, becoming ochreous at anterior parts of scutum and scutellum; katepisternum covered with dense white scales; wings hyaline with a feeble but distinct milky opaque, with at most a faint yellowish infuscation at base and along anterior border; three black prealar bristles apparently present; abdomen more or less parallel sided, with white scales only, some may be yellowish, forming dense white transverse bands covering the basal halves of tergites; the sperm pump with the apical endplate large with long processes; basal bulb rounded, thin walled; reservoir rounded similar to the basal bulb, thick walled without a tapered apical extension ( Fig. 19 ).

Figures

FIGURES 15 – 19. Male & female genitalia: 15 – 17. Defilippia minos. 15. male genitalia, dorsal; 16. furca; 17. spermathecal complex; 18 – 19. Defilippia pharaonis. 18. furca; 19. spermathecal complex.