Eudorylas protumidus, FÖLDVÁRI, MIHÁLY, 2013

FÖLDVÁRI, MIHÁLY, 2013, Taxonomic revision of the Afrotropical species of the tribe Eudorylini (Diptera, Pipunculidae), Zootaxa 3656 (1), pp. 1-121 : 89-91

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3656.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6303044

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A487FD-FFCE-FFA2-1D3D-F8E5FE324E1C

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Felipe

scientific name

Eudorylas protumidus
status

sp. nov.

Eudorylas protumidus sp. nov.

( Figs 30A–E View FIGURE 30 )

Diagnosis: Surstyli asymmetrical, strongly bent ventrally, both with broad distal parts in lateral view; no m.a. on ST8. Gonopods equal in length, OG with a distinct process, directed medially; phallic guide broad, tip pointed and with a sickle shaped apical appendix on the left in ventral view; phallus trifid, branches short.

Type material: South Africa: 1♂, HT, Cape Prov., Pakhuis Pass, east side, 17-VIII-1973, ME Irwin, 600 m, meadow with flowers, 3219Aa ( NMSA) .

Male

Head. Third antennal segment long acuminate; brown. Face silvery pollinose. Frons, upper part subshining black, lower part silvery pollinose, except shining black spot in the middle; eyes touching for distance equal to 2.5 times ocellar triangle. Occiput, lower half silvery pollinose, upper half more brownish.

Thorax. Humeri pale brown. Mesonotum (viewed obliquely from front) brownish pollinose, along anterior margin more greyish; also greyish from the side. Scutellum brown, with 6–7 pairs of short, pale hairs. Dorsocentral hairs weakly developed. Halter yellow-brown, knob dark brown.

Legs. Trochanters and base of femora yellow, femora brown (shining ventrally), knees and tibiae brownish yellow, t3 slightly bent. Tarsal segments yellow, last segment brown. Ventroapical row of 5–6 short dark spines on mid femora; 3–4 pale hairs on 3rd femur (no spines on f1). Subapical (distal) spines on first four tibiae present. One short dark anteromedial hair on 3rd tibia. Hind trochanter with 1–2 short, pale hairs on ventral side. Pulvilli distinctly shorter than last tarsal segment.

Wing. Fourth costal section as long as third costal section. Cross-vein R-M beyond 1/3 of discal cell. Pterostigma fully coloured. Two pale hairs on tegula.

Abdomen (already dissected). Viewed obliquely from front tergites (T1,2) brownish pollinose. Hairs dispersed, short and weakly developed. Laterally spines on first tergite.

Genitalia. Surstyli asymmetrical, strongly bent ventrally, both with broad distal parts in lateral view; epandrium elongated, almost as long as ST8; no m.a. on ST8 ( Fig. 30B View FIGURE 30 ). SES missing; gonopods equal in length, OG with a distinct process, directed medially; phallic guide broad, tip pointed and with a sickle shaped apical appendix on the left in ventral view ( Fig. 30E View FIGURE 30 ); phallus trifid, branches short.

Female—Unknown.

Distribution — South Africa.

Etymology —Named after the projection (protumidus in Latin meaning protuberant) on the left side of the phallic guide in ventral view.

NMSA

KwaZulu-Natal Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Pipunculidae

Genus

Eudorylas

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