Review of the West Indian species of Efferia Coquillett (Diptera: Asilidae): Part 1. Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Cuba, and Jamaica
Author
Scarbrough, Aubrey G.
Visiting Scholar, Department of Entomology University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85741
Author
Perez-Gelabert, Daniel E.
Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution, P. O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013 - 7012
text
Insecta Mundi
2008
2008-10-10
2008
49
1
29
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5169958
1942-1354
5169958
Efferia vauriei
(Curran)
Fig. 1
, 43-45
Erax vauriei
Curran, 1953: 5
.
Nerax vauriei
(Curran)
,
Hull 1962: 478
. Combi-
nation.
Efferia vauriei
(Curran)
,
Martin and Papavero
1970: 66. Combination, catalogue.
Types examined
.
BAHAMAS
,
South
Bimini
Isl
. /
v.1951
C. and P. Vaurie
(
holotype
m,
AMNH
).
Paratypes
: same data as holotype
except vi-viii.1951 (
allotype
f,
10 m
, 12 f,
AMNH
)
;
same data as holotype (
1 m
,
FSCA
)
;
same data as
holotype
except
vii.1951
(
1 m
,
FSCA
);
South
Bimini
Isl. /
Bahamas
B.W.I. /
10.vi.1950
/ Cazier &
Rindge (1 f, FSCA);
same data except
vi.1951
~
P.&C. Vaurie / collectors (1 f, FSCA).
Other specimens examined
.
BAHAMAS
:
Stranger Cay
, 14.vii.? ~
Erax rufitibia Macq.
Figure 46-48.
Male terminalia of
Efferia vinalensis
n.
misidentified’ ~
Erax fortis Wk.
‘misidentified ~
sp.,
lateral views; 46. intact terminalia; 47a-b. gonostylus
Efferia vauriei (Curran)
/ dt. A. Scarbrough 07’ (1
apically and basally; 48a-b. phallus with aedeagus, m, 0186797, OSUC);
Erax rufitibia
/ Macq. / aedeagal tubes, and phallic flanges.
Stranger Cay /
vii.1914
(
1 m
,
MCZC
);
Fortune
Island
/ (or Long Cay) / nr. Albert Town /
7.iii.1953
~ Van Vost A.M.N.H. / Bahama Isls. Exped. / coll. L. Giovannoli ~ vauriei (
1 m
, FSCA).
Distribution
.
BAHAMAS
, South and East
Bimini
Islands, Stranger Cay, Fortune Island; June- August.
Remark
.
Efferia vauriei
is distinguished by the characters in the key and the combined characters of the terminalia (Fig. 43-45). It is further distinguished by the several long setae along the apical margin of sternite 8, the tooth-like process along the posterior margin of the epandrium [concealed in lateral view], and the dense orange-yellow setae on the inner surface of the gonocoxite. The seventh segment of the female is black with thin brown tomentum dorsally and black setae; at middle, the terminalia is about 1/ 9 as wide as long.