Taxonomic revision of the Afrotropical species of the tribe Eudorylini (Diptera, Pipunculidae)
Author
FÖLDVÁRI, MIHÁLY
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Zootaxa
2013
2013-05-22
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3656.1.1
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Eudorylas pondolandi
Földvári, 2003
(
Figs 29A–G
)
Eudorylas pondolandi
Földvári 2003
a
: 165
.
Diagnosis: Femora dark brown, black, tips yellow-brown (f1,2 silvery pollinose, f3 shining pv). No lateral spines on first tergite. SES with hairs behind PG; gonopods well sclerotized; hypandrium elongated, slightly turned; phallic guide contains two lobes with hole-like structures (may be missing); phallus narrowing very much towards tip; ejaculatory apodeme filiform with basal projection; sperm pump globose.
Type
material:
South Africa
:
1♂
[PT of
E. aemulus
, no head], HT,
Port St. John
,
Pondoland
.,
16–
28.04.1924
, 1924-235 (
BMNH
)
.
Other material examined:
Kenya
:
1♂
, Karura For.,
Nairobi
,
5500 feet
,
9–13.xii.1970
,
A.E. Stubbs
, B.M. 1972- 211. (
BMNH
)
.
South Africa
:
1♂
,
Natal Die Kop
1131m
ca.
11km
NE of Kranskop
,
28º54’57’’S
:
30º57’12’’E
,
Grass
&
Forest Margin
,
Londt Whittington
&
Chinn
,
17.iv.1990
;
1♂
,
Cape
Mountain Zebra Natl Park
,
1400m
,
March 12 1972
, ME &
BJ Irwin
, 3225
Ab
(both
NMSA
)
.
Male
Head
. Third antennal segment acuminate; dark brown. Face silvery pollinose. Frons, upper part shining black, lower part subshining; eyes touching for distance equal to 2.5 times ocellar triangle. Occiput, upper half brownish pollinose, lower half silver-grey.
Thorax
. Humeri brown, slightly paler than mesonotum. Mesonotum (viewed obliquely from front) brownish pollinose; slightly greyish pollinose from the side. Scutellum brownish pollinose, with dispersed, pale hairs. Dorsocentral hairs very weakly developed. Halter brown, stem darker.
Legs. Trochanters and base of femora dark brown, femora dark brown, tips yellow-brown (f1,2 silvery pollinose, f3 shining pv), knees, tibiae and tarsal segments yellow-brown, last segment dark brown. No ventroapical spines on first four femora; 3–4 indistinct, black spines on 3rd femur. Subapical (distal) spines on first four tibiae present. No anteromedial hairs on 3rd tibia. Hind trochanter with fine, short, white hairs on ventral side. Pulvilli slightly smaller than last tarsal segment.
Wing. Fourth costal section 1.5 times as long as third costal section. Cross-vein R-M at 2/5 of discal cell. Distal 2/ 3 of pterostigma full coloured. Hairs on tegula uncertain.
Abdomen (already dissected)
. Viewed obliquely from front tergites brownish pollinose, as well as hind margins and sides. No lateral spines on first tergite.
FIGURE 29.
Male genitalia of
Eudorylas pondolandi
(A–G) and
E. porrectus
(H–M).—A: outer surstylus, lateral view, B: ventral view with phallic guide, phallus (without ST8), C: surstyli, dorsal view, D: phallic guide, lateral view, E: dorsal view (ST8 damaged), F: sperm pump with ejaculatory apodeme, G: inner surstylus (damaged), lateral view, H: outer surstylus with phallic guide and outer gonopod, lateral view, I: dorsal view, J: inner surstylus, lateral view, K: surstyli, dorsal view, L: sperm pump with ejaculatory apodeme, M: ventral view with phallus and phallic guide (without ST8). Scale bars:
0.1 mm
Genitalia. Surstyli separate, IS broken; ST8 broken (
Fig. 29E
). SES uncertain, with hairs behind PG; gonopods well sclerotized; hypandrium elongated, slightly turned, not connected to EP; phallic guide contains two lobes with hole-like structures (not always well developed); phallus short, narrowing very much towards tip (
Fig. 28B
); ejaculatory apodeme filiform with basal projection; sperm pump globose (
Fig. 29F
).
Female—Unknown.
Distribution—
South Africa
,
Kenya
.