Gasterophilus meridionalis (Pillers & Evans, 1926)

Li, Xin-Yu, Pape, Thomas & Zhang, Dong, 2019, Taxonomic review of Gasterophilus (Oestridae, Gasterophilinae) of the world, with updated nomenclature, keys, biological notes, and distributions, ZooKeys 891, pp. 119-156 : 119

Gasterophilus meridionalis (Pillers & Evans, 1926) Figs 2 D–F , 5C, D , 11E , 15 D–F ; Table 1

Oestrus meridionalis Pillers & Evans, 1926: 264. Type locality: Zimbabwe (as “Rhodesia”).

Selected references.

Zumpt (1965: 121); Cogley (1991b); Colwell et al. (2006: 36); Colwell et al. (2007: 256).

Diagnosis.

Male unknown. Antennal postpedicel long-oval. Facial plate setose. Wing completely hyaline. Crossvein dm-cu extremely weak, with only a faint trace; distance between crossveins r-m and dm-cu equal or less than length of r-m. Meron with unmodified setae. Legs black or black-brown. Abdomen ground color dark brown. Female sternite 8 longitudinally ridged in the middle and with a scallop-shaped apex.

Material examined.

SOUTH AFRICA • 2♀♀; Transvaal; Newington; 15 Aug. 1957; reared from third instar larvae by F. Zumpt; KZNM.

Hosts.

Burchell’s zebra ( E. quagga burchellii).

Distribution.

Afrotropical - Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Namibia, Republic of the Congo, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Figures

Figure 2. Left lateral view of habitus (A, D, G), head and thorax (B, E, H), and head in frontal view (C, F, I) of Gasterophilus species A-C Male G. intestinalis (De Geer) China (in MBFU) D-F Female G. meridionalis (Pillers & Evans); South Africa (in KZNM) G-I Male G. nasalis (Linnaeus) China (in MBFU). Scale bars: 1 mm (A-E, I); 0.5 mm (F).

Figure 5. Dorsal view of habitus (A, C, E) and head and and thorax (B, D, F) of male Gasterophilus species A, B Male G. intestinalis (De Geer) C, D Female G. meridionalis (Pillers & Evans) E, F Male G. nasalis (Linnaeus). Scale bars: 1 mm (A-F).

Figure 11. Anterior (A, D, G), left lateral (B, E, H) and posterior view (C, F, I) of male terminalia of Gasterophilus species, modified from Li et al. (2019) A-C G. flavipes (Olivier) D-F G. haemorrhoidalis (Linnaeus) G-I G. inermis (Brauer). Scale bars: 0.5 mm (A-I). The dotted line in C and F indicates the sagittal plane. Abbreviations: cer, cercus; ph, phallus; pog, postgonite; pr l, processi longi; sur, sustylus.

Figure 15. Dorsal (A, D, G), left lateral (B, E, H) and ventral (C, F, I) view of female genitalia of Gasterophilus species A-C G. intestinalis (De Geer) D-F G. meridionalis (Pillers & Evans) G-I G. nasalis (Linnaeus). Scale bars: 0.5 mm (A-I).