Review Of Subtribe Apodacrina (Diptera, Sarcophagidae) Of Middle East With Descriptions Of Ten New Species
Author
Verves, Yu. G.
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Zoodiversity
2020
2020-07-17
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http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/zoo2020.03.183
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Genus
Apodacra
Macquart, 1854
Apodacra
Macquart, 1854: 425
.
Type
species:
Apodacra seriemaculata
Macquart, 1854
, by monotypy.
Apodacra
:
Nandi, 2002: 77
(review of Hindustan species);
Povolný & Verves, 1997: 80
(review);
Rohdendorf, 1925: 63
(review); 1930: 12, 18 (revision); 1970: 627 (in key), 629 (key to species);
Rohdendorf & Verves, 1980: 462
(in key);
Séguy, 1941: 251
(review of West Palaearctic species);
Townsend, 1938: 99
(diagnose);
Venturi, 1960: 34
(review of European species);
Verves, 1986: 68
(catalog); 1990: 538 (key to East Palaearctic species);
Verves et al., 2015: 265
(review);
Zerova et al., 2006: 88
(in key), 95 (key to Ukrainian species).
Parapodacra
Rohdendorf, 1925: 68
(as subgenus of
Apodacra
Macquart, 1854
).
Type
species:
Apodacra chrysocephala
Rohdendorf, 1925
, by designation of
Townsend, 1935: 203
.
Diagnosis. Small, rarely medium-sized (3.0–
6.5 mm
) bright colored flies. Frons and face broad, vibrissal angle placed at oral margin, head in profile angular; posterior border of head distinctly shortened;
orb
1–2+2–6, strong; postpedicel 3–5× as long as pedicel.
D i s t r i b u t i o n a n d d i v e r s i t y. 16 species distributed in Palaearctic,
Oriental
and Afrotropical
Regions
.
Key to species
1. All abdominal tergites shining black, with narrow stripe of light dusting near fore margin (
fig. 7
, f). Oral setae black, anterior part of gena with black setulae (
figs 7
, b–c).
4.5 mm
.....................
A. melanura
sp. n.
— Abdominal tergites not entirely black, with shining black spots in posterior half (
figs 1
, b;
3, g; 4
, b;
5
, f; 6, f; 8, g; 9, b; 10, f; 11, b). ...................................................................................................................................2
2. Apart from a
vi
, other oral setae absent (
figs 1, c–d; 2
, c–d;
5
, b–c; 10, b–c; 11, c–d). Gena with yellow setae. .......................................................................................................................................................................3
— Apart from
vi
, at least one black oral seta present (
figs 3, b–c; 4
, c–d;
6, b–c; 8, b–c; 9
, c–d). ..................5
3. Arista widened in basal 0.4–0.5 (
figs 1, c; 2
, c). Facials strongly narrower than frons (
figs 1, d; 2
, d–e).
{
: wing with cell
r
2+3
entirely, cells
r
1
,
r
4+5
and
dm
partly fumose (
fig. 1
, f), fore 5
th
tarsomere with long d (
fig. 1
, e).
4.5–6.5 mm
. ............................................................................
A. chrysocephala
Rohdendorf, 1925
— Arista widened in basal 0.6–0.8 (
figs 5
, b; 11, b–c). Facials almost as wide as frons (
figs 5
, c; 10, c; 11, d).
{
: wing hyaline, without darkened areas (
figs 5
, a; 10, f; 11, e). ....................................................................4
4. The distance between median spot of 4
th
abdominal tergite and each lateral stripe more than diameter of median spot; median spot of 5
th
tegite much shorter than its lateral spots (
fig. 5
, f).
{
: hind 1
st
tarsomere widened, with ventral ctenidium formed by short spine-like setae (
fig. 5
, e). 5.0 mm. ............................... ...................................................................................................................................................
A. firanensis
sp. n.
— The distance between median spot of 4
th
abdominal tergite and each lateral stripes much less than diameter of median spot; all spots of 5
th
tergite equal in size (
fig. 10
, f).
{
: Hind 1
st
tarsomere without ctenidium (
fig. 10
, a). 4.0–
6.5 mm
. .............................................................
A. seriemaculata
Macquart, 1854
5. Some black setae present above
vi
(
figs 8, b–c; 9
, c–d).
{
: Fore 1
st
–4
th
tarsomeres with numerous elongate, erect d (
fig. 8
, e).
4.5–6.5 mm
. ..............................................................................
A. pulchra
Egger, 1861
— No black setae above
vi
(
figs 3, b–c; 4
,c–d).
{
: Fore tarsus without long erect setae, normal setae only (
figs 3
, a;
6
, a).........................................................................................................................................................6
6. Gena with black setae (
figs 6
, b–c).
{
: Hind 1
st
tarsomere not widened, without ventral ctenidium (
fig. 6 a
).
4.5 mm
.....................................................................................................................
A. idiopatica
sp. n.
— Gena with yellow setae (
figs 3, b; 4
, c).
{
: Hind 1
st
tarsomere widened, with ventral ctenidium (
fig. 3
, e). .....7
7. Ground color of abdomen silver-white (
figs 3, g; 4
, b).
4.5–6.5 mm
. ...............
A. dispar
Villeneuve, 1916
— Ground color of abdomen orange-yellow. 5.0 mm.
.....................
A. radchenkoi
Verves et Khrokalo, 2015