The Palaearctic species of the Pegomya terminalis species group (Diptera: Anthomyiidae), with descriptions of two new species
Author
Michelsen, Verner
text
Zootaxa
2008
1781
31
46
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.274299
2c96ce04-c14f-4f7b-8714-885b380e97b1
1175-5326
274299
Pegomya skulei
Michelsen
,
sp. nov.
Figs. 32–37
.
Etymology.
The present species is named after Bjarne Skule, a Danish lepidopterist who collected the only known specimen.
Description.
Male.
Small (WL 3.7mm; n=1). Externally indiscernible from
P. terminalis
except for wholly blackish ground colour of head, body and appendages. Even terminalia (
Figs. 32–37
) in most respects very similar to
P. terminalis
apart from shape and vestiture of surstyli which are diagnostic in respect to very short and sharply pointed meso-distal process (
Fig. 34
) and, as seen in profile (
Fig. 35
), in shape of mesobasal laminate process, and fewer but stronger ventro-basal setulae.
Female.
Unknown.
Material examined.
GREECE
[
holotype
,
ZMUC
]: Laconia: SW Monemvassia,
1 male
1–7.iv.1983
(B. Skule). The
holotype
shows signs of having been retrieved from a light trap.
Distribution.
Known only by the
holotype
from southern Peloponnese.