Taxonomy of Morellia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Muscidae): revision of the subgenera Morellia s. str. and Parapyrellia Townsend
Author
Pamplona, Denise
Author
Nihei, Silvio S.
Author
Couri, Márcia S.
Author
Pont, Adrian C.
text
Zootaxa
2016
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4163.1.1
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39.
Morellia
(
M
.)
tibetana
Fan, 1974
(
Figs 157–161
)
Morellia hortorum
ssp.
tibetana
Fan, 1974
: 95
.
Type
locality:
CHINA
,
Xizang
[
Tibet
], Lhasa.
Holotype
Ƌ,
SIPPE
.
Descriptive remarks.
Originally described as a subspecies of
M. hortorum
,
M. tibetana
was recently raised to full species rank by
Fan (2008)
.
Similar to
M. hortorum
, the male differing as follows: scutellum with 1 basal, 1 latero-discal, 2 preapical (weak) and 1 apical pairs of setae. Wing with one faint spot in costal cell from base until after the humeral crossvein. Seventeen pairs of frontal setae. Mid tibia with an anterodorsal comb-like row of shorter setulae on basal twothirds; hind femur with an anterodorsal row of shorter setae; hind tibia with an anteroventral row of shorter setae and with anteroventral and anterodorsal setae on apical half, and 2 anterodorsal setae on basal half; dm-cu sinuous; posterior margin of sternite 5 concave and with few setae (
Fig. 157
).
Terminalia. Apical third of cercal plate bare; cercal plate ventrally with 2 strong spines; surstylus with many setae on apical half (
Figs 158–160
); basiphallus long; aedeagus with spicules on anterior membrane of distiphallus; gonopod with 1 long and strong seta on basal third and 1 seta on apical third; paramere with some setae apically and a few setae on middle third (
Fig. 161
).
Female.
Unknown.
Material
examined.
CHINA
: locality not deciphered [in Chinese],
5.vii.1977
, 1 Ƌ (
BMNH
).
Distribution.
PALAEARCTIC:
China
(
Xizang
,
Shanxi
).