A new species of Wohlfahrtia Brauer & Bergenstamm (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from northwestern China, with three new synonymies and a pictorial synopsis
Author
Ge, Ying-Qiang
Author
Zhang, Dong
Author
Thomas, Pape
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-06-14
4434
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130
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journal article
29879
10.11646/zootaxa.4434.1.8
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1175-5326
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Wohlfahrtia villeneuvi
Salem, 1938
(
Figs 4
,
6L
)
Wohlfahrtia villeneuvi
Salem, 1938
: 71
.
Algeria
, Hoggar [“
Sahara Ahaggar Mountains
”]
;
Egypt
,
Wadi Hôf
;
Egypt
,
Wadi el Rishrash.
Wohlfahrtia musiva
Séguy, 1953
: 70
,
syn. nov.
Mauritania, Fderîck [“Fort Gouraud”].
Wohlfahrtia villeneuvei
:
Verves (1985
: 339
; 1986: 121), incorrect subsequent spelling of
Wohlfahrtia villeneuvi
Salem, 1938
.
Distribution.
Palaearctic—Algeria,
Egypt
,
Iran
,
Israel
,
Libya
,
Turkmenistan
; Afrotropical—Chad,
Mauritania
.
Remarks.
The nominal taXon
Wohlfahrtia musiva
Séguy, 1953
had not been revised since its proposal. Séguy’s (1953) original description contains no illustration, and the only description of the male terminalia is a statement that the cercus is straight and reddish brown (“Forceps épais, d’un brun rougeâtre”, p. 71). The original description provided by
Séguy (1953)
is of the male seX only, but it does not provide information as to whether one or more specimens were eXamined. We have recovered and eXamined a single male deposited in MNHN (
Fig. 4
), which evidently represents original
type
material, and we herewith designate this specimen as
lectotype
with the
type
locality restricted accordingly. The specimen has been identified by us as
Wohlfahrtia villeneuvi
. The
lectotype
is labelled (top to bottom) “
MAURITANIE
/ FORT—GOURAUD / BERLAND
XI—1948
[black print] //
TYPE
[black print on red label] //
Wohlfahrtia
/
musiva
/
TYPE
Seguy [blue handwriting]” (
Fig. 4G
).