Taxonomic revision of the Afrotropical species of the tribe Eudorylini (Diptera, Pipunculidae)
Author
FÖLDVÁRI, MIHÁLY
text
Zootaxa
2013
2013-05-22
3656
1
1
121
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3656.1.1
journal article
20775
10.11646/zootaxa.3656.1.1
d2c3e582-04bb-4d44-8261-b62f1b0db73a
11755334
6039126
73E59AED-B16D-430C-B611-EB5CFEAF7FDD
Eudorylas umbrinus
(
Loew, 1858
)
(
Figs 36H–M
)
Pipunculus umbrinus
Loew, 1858: 374
[
1860: 354
]
Diagnosis: Third antennal segment long acuminate. S7, EP visible, abdomen swollen distally, without m.a. Surstyli broad at base, pointed at tip; margins of SES clear, with numerous hairs (on both side); gonopods almost symmetric, IG more rounded; phallic guide broad at base in ventral view (broader in lateral view) and pointed at tip, with distinct hairs in the middle.
Type material:
South Africa
:
1♂
, HT,
Caffraria
[3 hand-written labels:] “.B.” or “.3.”, “234”, “168”, [typewritten label:] “
Pipunculus umbrinus
” (
NHRS
).
Other material examined:
South Africa
:
1♂
, Natal, Pietermaritzburg, Town Bush,
9 June 1979
,
R. Miller
(
NMSA
)
.
Male
Head
. Third antennal segment long acuminate; yellow-brown. Face subshining black. Frons, upper part shining black, lower part silvery pollinose; eyes touching for distance equal to 3.5 times ocellar triangle. Occiput, lower half silvery pollinose, upper half more brownish.
Thorax
. Humeri pale brown. Mesonotum (viewed obliquely from front) brownish pollinose; silver-grey from the side. Scutellum brown, without hairs. Dorsocentral hairs very weakly developed. Halter pale brown.
Legs. Entirely yellow (probably parts of the femora used to be brown on HT), f3 shining pv. Ventroapical row of 6–7 very short spines on f2; spines missing on f1,3. Subapical (distal) spines on first four tibiae present. No anteromedial hairs on 3rd tibia. Hind trochanter without hairs or spines on ventral side. Pulvilli as long as last tarsal segment.
Wing. Fourth costal section 0.8 times as long as third costal section. Cross-vein R-M at 1/3 of discal cell. Pterostigma fully coloured. Dark hairs on tegula present (2).
Abdomen
. Viewed obliquely from front tergites brownish pollinose, hind margins and sides slightly greyish. Hairs missing on abdomen. Laterally 3 black bristles on first tergite. Postabdomen in dorsal view: S7, EP visible; T5 0.8 times as long as ST8. Genitalia without dissection: abdomen swollen distally, no m.a., EP and SS yellow.
Genitalia. Surstyli broad at base, pointed at tip; ST8 with uncertain borders (
Fig. 36M
). Margins of SES clear, with numerous hairs (on both side); gonopods almost symmetric, IG more rounded; phallic guide (
Fig. 36I
) broad at base in ventral view (broader in lateral view,
Fig. 36H
) and pointed at tip, with distinct hairs in the middle; phallus trifid, curved, with membranous supporting structure; ejaculatory apodeme fan shaped; sperm pump round with two projections (
Fig. 36K
).
Female—Unknown.
Remarks
—The
type
specimen was collected during a Swedish expedition to southern and south-eastern Africa led by J.A. Wahlberg. The numbers refer to particular localities, but the list of localities had disappeared and correct labels had never been produced according to Thomas Pape, NHRS (pers. comm.).
Loew (1858: 374)
gives the
type
locality as “Caffraria (Wahlb.)”, which refers to a large part of current
South Africa
, but does not mention the number of specimens he had studied.
Distribution—
South Africa
.