A new European species of Delia RobineauDesvoidy (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) near the wheat bulb fly, D. coarctata (Fallén)
Author
Michelsen, Verner
text
Zootaxa
2007
1412
61
67
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.175665
38f2fd7a-33e5-46db-a6fd-ccf97b2125f3
11755326
175665
The
Delia coarctata
species group
In this species group, which equals the ‘
Delia coarctata
superspecies’ of
Griffiths (1991)
, belong four presently accepted species:
D. coarctata
(Fallén)
,
D. montana
(Malloch)
,
D. latissima
(Fan, Ma & Li)
and
D.
coarctoides
,
new species
. I agree with Griffiths (op. cit.) that the monophyly of the group appears well supported by the characteristic shape of the long surstyli that in caudal view are broad at base but turn very slen der distally (
Figs. 3–4
).
The following practical key to the males and females of the
Delia coarctata
species group uses characters that are normally visible without dissection.