Actorthia micans (Kröber, 1924), Krober, 1924

Badrawy, Haitham B. M. & Mohammad, Salwa K., 2013, A revision of the Egyptian species of the genus Actorthia Kröber (Diptera: Therevidae: Phycinae), Zootaxa 3613 (2), pp. 181-189 : 185

Actorthia micans (Kröber, 1924)

( Figs 5 , 10)

Orthactia micans Kröber, 1924: 93 .

Actorthia efflatouni Kröber, 1925b: 233 .

Type material. Holotype "Sakkara", Egypt (ESEC, destroyed).

Diagnosis. Length: (male) body 4.5–6.5 mm, wing 3.0–4.0 mm; (female) body 6.0–7.0 mm, wing 4.0–5.0 mm.

Polished black species, antenna shining dark brown covered with dense silvery-white pubescence; scape with long black setae; thorax black with erect black setae; abdomen with cuticle blackish-brown to black dorsally with white rings on posterior margins of terga 1–4.

Local distribution. Coastal strip and Lower Nile.

Geographic distribution. Egypt and Israel.

Specimens examined. Abu Rawash 15.III.1925 (1 male, “cotype” of A. efflatouni ) det. Kröber 1925, 17.III.1926 (1 male), 12.III.1927 (1 male), 16.III.1926 (1 male); Burg 20.V.1927 (1 male & 2 females); Mirsa Matrouh 10.V.1930 (7 males), 8.V.1935 (1 male & 1 female); Arish 6.V.1934 (1 female), 20.V.1935 (1 male) (CUC); Abu-Zaabal 26.III.1922 (1 male); Abu Rawash 7.III.1925 (1 female), 11.III.1925 (1 male), 15.III.1925 (1 female & 1 male), 13.III.1926 (1 female), 12.III.1927 (1 female), 16.III.1927 (2 males); Kafr Hakim 20.III.1926 (1 male); Mansouriah 28.III.1926 (1 female), 27.VIII.1926 (1 male); Ismailia 7.IV.1926 (1 female); Serapeum 9.IV.1926 (4 females); Kerdasa 30.III.1927 (1 male); Burg 20.V.1927 (2 females) (MAC); Abu Rowash 11.III.1925 (1 male), 15.III.1925 (1 male), 22.III.1925 (3 males & 1 female), 17.III.1926 (1 male & 1 female); Mansouriah 27.II.1926 (1 male); Kerdasa 10.III.1926 (1 male); Kafr Hakim 20.III.1926 (1 female); Ismailia 7.IV.1926 (1 female) (AZUC); Israel, Negev, el. + 340 m, 6.7 km. W. Ashalim inland stabilized dunes, 3058'10''N/3438'42''E, M. E. Irwin, 7.IV.1995 (1 male, det. M. Hauser 2004) (MHC).

Remarks. Actorthia efflatouni Kröber, 1925 is confirmed as a synonym of A. micans (Kröber, 1923) after we compared the “cotype” specimen of the former species with the original description of the latter species. The type and cotype specimens of A. efflatouni (Abu Rowash 7.III.1925 & 11.III.1925) are located in (ESEC, destroyed), determined by Kröber in 1925.

Figures

FIGURE 5. Actorthia micans (Kröber), dorsal view. (male cotype specimen of A. efflatouni, (CUC )). Body length = 5.0 mm.