Revision of the Bengalia torosa Wiedemann, 1819 species-group (Diptera: Calliphoridae), with notes on the systematic position of B. robertsi Kurahashi, 1987 and B. subnitida James, 1964
Author
Rognes, Knut
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Zootaxa
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Bengalia robertsi
Kurahashi, 1987
(
Figs 257–262
)
Bengalia robertsi
Kurahashi, 1987
: 70
.
HoloType
♂
(BPBM; examined), by original designaTion.
Type
localiTy:
Papua
New Guinea
(
Morobe Province
, Kulolo Creek, Bulolo).
Temaseka robertsi
:
Lehrer (2005: 150)
. [Lehrer copied the original description, including the figures, and remarked “[n]ous ne connaissons pas cette espèce, …”.]
Type material examined.
HOLOTYPE ♂ (BPBM), labelled as shown in
Fig. 257
. The dried out terminalia (not examined) are situated in a glass microvial, with a cork stopper, pinned together with the specimen (
Fig. 257
).
Discussion.
This species lacks discal setae on T5 and was included in the
Bengalia torosa
species-group (Gangelomyiinae) by
Lehrer (2005)
.
Lehrer (2005)
, copying Kurahashi’s description
in toto
, placed
B. robertsi
in his newly created nominal genus
Temaseka
together with
B. concava
Malloch
and
T. mallochi
Lehrer
, on the basis of alleged similarities in the distiphallus. By his own admission, he had not seen any material himself (“[n]ous ne connaissons pas cette espèce”). The greater ampulla is gourd-shaped (i.e., pointed at its lower end) (
Figs 259, 262
), which places it in the
Bengalia labiata
Robineau-Desvoidy
species-group. Note also the position of a particular seta (the Hough seta) inside of the row of two
sa
setae (
Fig. 262
). This seta is mentioned by Kurahashi under another name (… “first postsutural
ia
is located laterad of longitudinal intraalar line, …”). This seta is also present in
Bengalia labiata
Robineau-Desvoidy
(KR) but it is usually absent in the genus
Bengalia
.
Rognes (2011b: 19)
discussed the occurrence of the Hough seta in the
Bengaliinae
. The fore tibia has a single strong
v
seta (
Figs 260– 261
). I cannot locate the single
p
seta mentioned by Kurahashi. I have not examined the terminalia, but I find no evidence of semidomes or a distal lip process on the distiphallus in the figures published by
Kurahashi (1987)
. I leave a more detailed description of the distiphallus to revisers of the
Bengalia labiata
species-group.