Empidideicus, Becker, 1907

Moghbeli, Sajjad, Fekrat, Lida & Gharali, Babak, 2020, Empidideicus jirofti sp. nov. (Diptera: Mythicomyiidae: Empidideicinae), a new microbombyliid from Kerman province, southern Iran, with a key to species of Empidideicus from Iran, Zootaxa 4722 (4), pp. 352-360 : 353

Key to species of the genus Empidideicus known from Iran

1- Occiput completely black............................................................................... 2

- Occiput completely yellow or with yellow spot laterally....................................................... 5

2- Mid coxa with sclerotized square flap like projection basolaterally............... E. legulicoxa Gharali & Evenhuis, 2010

- Mid coxa without sclerotized square flap like projection basolaterally............................................ 3

3- Dorsal pattern on mesonotum orange...................................... E. aurantiacus Gharali & Evenhuis, 2010

- Dorsal pattern on mesonotum brown, blackish brown or black.................................................. 4

4- Dorsum of mesonotum completely black, without longitudinal stripes; prescutellar area completely black...................................................................................... E. persicus Gharali & Evenhuis, 2010

- Dorsum of mesonotum yellow with 3 black longitudinal stripes; prescutellar area completely yellow........................................................................................ E. greatheadi Gharali & Evenhuis, 2010

5- Occiput completely yellow laterally....................................................................... 6

- Occiput black with yellow spot laterally............................... E. jirofti Gharali, Mogbeli & Fekrat sp. nov.

6- Prescutellar area completely yellow....................................................................... 9

- Prescutellar area with at least some brown or black colour adjacent to scutellum................................... 7

7- Prescutellar area completely brown or black; spermathecal reservoir subglobular, without any striation externally.................................................................................. E. unicus Gharali & Evenhuis, 2011

- Prescutellar area with narrow blackish brown stripe adjacent to scutellum and with yellow mark; spermathecal reservoir globular, at least basal half striated externally.................................................................... 8

8- Prescutellar area with a large quadrate yellow mark; spermathecal reservoir cylindrical, completely striated externally; furca u-shaped, gonostyli sickle-shaped, broad basally, with a small denticle, tapering suddenly to a curved, narrow, acute part apically........................................................... E. formosus Hakimian, Talebi & Gharali, 2014

- Prescutellar area with an oval yellow mark; spermathecal reservoir globular, only basal half striated externally; furca subtriangular with large concavity medially, gonostyli triangular, long, straight, without denticle basally.............................................................................. E. citridomus Gharali, Majnon Jahromi & Evenhuis, 2014

9- Vein R 4+5 curved upward, meeting costa at level of cua1; vein M 1+2 shorter than half of M 2 .................................................................................................. E. ebellicus Gharali & Evenhuis, 2010

- Vein R 4+5 straight, meeting costa well beyond level of cua1; vein M 1+2 longer than half of M 2 ......................... 10

10- Second antennal flagellomere as long as or longer than first flagellomere; furca with well-sclerotized plates around genital orifice.................................................................. E. amicus Gharali & Evenhuis, 2010

- second antennal flagellomere much shorter than first flagellomere; furca without sclerotized area around genital orifice........................................................................ E. matricarius Gharali & Evenhuis, 2010