Review Of The Genus Geloemyia (Diptera, Pyrgotidae), With Discussion Of Its Taxonomic Position
Author
Korneyev, V. A.
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Vestnik Zoologii
2015
2015-12-01
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/vzoo-2015-0061
journal article
10.1515/vzoo-2015-0061
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2073-2333
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Geloemyia quadriseta
Hendel, 1933
(fig. 8–10, 16, 21, 67–76)
quadriseta
Hendel 1933: 13
(
Geloemyia
);
Hendel, 1934: 142
;
Soós, 1984: 38
; Korneyev, 2004: 43;
Korneyev, Nartshuk, 2004: 408
;
Nartshuk, Korneyev, 2005: 9
(
Parageloemyia
). —
ornata
Hering, 1940: 293
(
Parageloemyia
);
Enderlein, 1942: 111
;
Soós, 1984: 37
(
Dicranostira
),
syn. n.
—
nigrofasciata
(
Geloemyia
);
Hendel 1933: 13
;
Soós, 1984: 37
; Korneyev, 2004: 43; Korneyev, Narchuk, 2004: 408 (
Parageloemyia
),
possible synonym
.
Fig. 62–66.
Geloemyia namibica
,
sp. n.
, paratype ♂ (62–64) (MNKB) and ♀ (65–66) (SIZK): 62 — abdomen, ventral view; 63 — epandrium, lateral view; 64 — glans of phallus; 65 — aculeus; 66 — spermatheca (one of the three).
M a t e r i a l.
Type.
Syntype
♀
Geloemyia quadriseta
: [
China
:] “Shin Kai Si / Mt. Omei / Szechuen
China
”, “
1000 feet
/ alt”, “DCGraham / collector”, “
Geloemyia
/ quadrisetosa [sic!] / Hend. Hend. [det.]” (red paper rectangle) (USNM).
Holotype
♀
Parageloemyia ornata
: [
China
:] “Chandaoche / Manchukuo,
VIII. 1938
/ W Alin”, “Type”, “
Parageloemyia ornata
m. Type ♀ / Hering det.” (MNKB).
Holotype
♂
Geloemyia nigrofasciata
: “
Suifu
/
Szechuen
/
China
”, “
DC Graham
/ coll.”, “Type No / 41873 / U.S.N.M.” (red paper rectangle), “
Geloemyia
/ nigrofasciata / Hend.” (
USNM
).
Non-type.
Japan
:
Tokyo
,
11.05.1910
, 1 ♀ (
E. Galois
) (
MHNP
)
.
B r i e f r e d e s c r i p t i o n. This species can be recognized from combination of the head with narrow parafacial dorsally approximately as long as flagellomere 1 width, face slightly receding, with ventral portions of antennal grooves slightly protruding, and peristomal cavity nearly as long as eye horizontal diameter, ocellar seta as long as anterior frontal setulae; wing gray microtrichose, with a variously developed brown pattern consisting of the short subbasal crossband posterior of costal cell apex and a spot at base of cell cua1, pterostigmal crossband, from the apical half of stigma through crossvein r-m to posterior wing margin, short accessory crossband in cell r1 distal of vein R
1
apex, preapical crossband (from cell r1 through dm-cu) either broken at vein M or complete, and apical band usually with extensions into cell r
2+3
or along vein M; vein R
2+3
without stump vein; vein R
4+5
setulose dorsally; crossvein dm-cu moderately oblique, forming angle c. 60–70° with vein CuA
1
; variously brownish shaded (narrowly in
G. quadriseta
holotype
and broadly in
P. ornata
syntypes
); mesonotum with no presutural and 3 postsutural dorsocentral setae; scutellum with 2 pairs of setae and no marginal setulae; female fore tarsus with unmodified trapezoid preapical, and strongly modified apical tarsomere 0.8× as long as wide, bearing thumb-like, long setulose lateral process, with claw 0.4–0.5 times an long as apical fore tarsomere width; female mid femur without femoral organ; oviscape almost as long as preabdominal tergites combined, its apex ventrally with pair of rows consisting of 3 shorter and one long apical setae (fig. 16).
R e m a r k s. Study of
holotype
females of
Geloemyia quadriseta
and
Parageloemyia ornata
shows them to have similarly modified fore tarsomere and no femoral organ; I therefore consider them conspecific and synonymize these names. As the wing pattern of
Geloemyia cheni
and
G. trifasciata
is sexually dimorphic, with darker, wider and solid crossbands in males, it can be interpolated on other species, including
G. quadriseta
(but except
G. namibica
and
G. wonjuensis
). Description of
G. nigrofasciata
was based on a single male, which shows no characters differing closely related
G. cheni
and
G. quadriseta
and thus cannot be formally proven to belong either to the first or to the second species. Type localities of
G. quadriseta
based on females and of
G. nigropunctata
based on male are in
Sichuan Province
c.
200 km
from each other, and this is quite a reason that they could be conspecific. I leave the formal synonymization pending until more rigorous proofs are found.