Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) tangerensis

Whitmore, Daniel, 2011, New taxonomic and nomenclatural data on Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), with description of six new species, Zootaxa 2778, pp. 1-57 : 6

Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) tangerensis nom. nov.

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Heteronychia (Heteronychia) amica Peris, González-Mora & Mingo, 1998: 173 . Type locality: Morocco, Tanger. [Junior secondary homonym of Phallosphaera amica Ma, 1964 .]

Type material examined. 1 3 paratype: Tanger, M. Escalera leg. ( UCME) [terminalia dissected and placed in glycerin in a microvial pinned beneath the source specimen].

Remarks. Peris et al. (1998) based their description of Heteronychia amica upon four males (the holotype and three paratypes), all from Tanger in Morocco and all deposited at UCME. The examined paratype fits well with the original illustrations published by Peris et al. (1998: 173, fig. 8), who did not specify which specimen(s) was (were) used for their illustrations.

Diagnosis (3). A medium-sized (7.5– 10mm) species of Heteronychia with a narrow frons, ca. 0.3 times eye width in dorsal view at its narrowest point; lower facial margin slightly protruding in lateral view; scutellum with a pair of apical setae; mid femur with a subapical posteroventral comb; costal spine short; wing vein R1 bare on dorsal surface; microtrichosity of abdomen with lateral black markings covering whole length of tergites 3−4 in posterior view; abdominal tergite 3 without median marginal setae; epandrium red-orange; cercus ( Fig. 3 ) entirely covered with tightly-spaced setae and with a rounded subapical hump; pregonite ( Fig. 4 ) distinctly widening apically, tip distinctly bent ventrally; distiphallus ( Fig. 5 ): apical process of harpes flattened, tapering and directed first apically then ventrally; juxta short, with triangular (irregularly serrated) lateral processes; vesica reduced to a small sclerite.

Distribution. Morocco.

Etymology. A Latin adjective referring to the type locality of the species.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 5. 1 – 2. Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) hellenica nom. nov., paratype from Greece, Pindos, Aoos (MMBC), scale bars 0.1 mm. 1. Cercus and surstylus. 2. Distiphallus (lateral). 3 – 5. Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) tangerensis nom. nov., paratype from Morocco, Tanger (UCME), scale bars 0.1 mm. 3. Cercus and surstylus. 4. Pregonite. 5. Distiphallus (lateral).