Review Of Subtribe Apodacrina (Diptera, Sarcophagidae) Of Middle East With Descriptions Of Ten New Species Author Verves, Yu. G. text Zoodiversity 2020 2020-07-17 54 3 183 204 http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/zoo2020.03.183 journal article 53626 10.15407/zoo2020.03.183 d7e9d83e-0bdb-430a-8525-76a1bdac0a94 2707-7268 6377612 Xeromyia jeddaense Verves et Khrokalo , sp. n. Material. Type. Holotype : } : Saudi Arabia : nr. Jedda , 21.01.1946 , leg. E. S. Brown . Deposited in NHMUK . Paratype : } : Saudi Arabia : Buraiman nr. Jedda , 18.01.1946 , leg. E. S. Brown . Deposited in NHMUK . Differential diagnosis: Similar to X. africana ( Rohdendorf, 1930 ) and X. transoxiana ( Rohdendorf, 1925 ) in coloration and abdominal pattern, differing from the former species by the fine fr and narrower dusting areas between spots of 3 rd abdominal tergite, and from the latter by the very narrow fore part of frontal vitta. F e m a l e. B o d y l e n g t h 6.5–7.0 mm. — Head. Frontal vitta brownish yellow, almost without dusting, other parts of head densely silvery white pollinose. Antenna and palp yellow, apical half of arista darkened. Frons at vertex 0.34–0.35×, at level of antennal base 0.30–0.33× head-width. Frontal vitta 3.0× widened in hind part, in fore part parallel, 0.5× as wide as one of parafrontalia. Postpedicel 3.0× as long as pedicel, arista widened in basal 0.7–0.8. Parafacialia at level of antennal base 0.17–0.19×, gena 0.04–0.06× eye-height. Palp at apex strongly widened. oc fine; fr 8–10, short and fine, not crossed; orb 1+1, proclinate ones short; parafrontalia and parafacialia with short light setae; gena with more dense and long yellow setae and 2–3 black setae in fore part; one pair of vi ; oral setae absent. — Thorax covered with medium long black setae, densely light grey pollinose, longitudinal stripes badly developed, the apex of scutellum light yellow. acr 0+1; dc 0+2–3; ia 0–1+1–2; pprn 2; npl 2 (without setulae). Scutellum with 3 pairs of strong marg; ds not distinct. — Wings hyaline. Costal spine absent, petiolus of cell r 4+5 0.5× as long as r-m , R 4+5 bare, M -vein rightangled, dm-cu s -like curved. t 2 near the middle with one elongate and one short ad . — Legs yellow; f 1 almost entirely, f 2 and f 3 in basal 2/3 grey pollinose; t 1 and t 3 fuscous in basal 2/3; base of t 3 grayish. — Abdomen with light yellowish grey dusting, with black pattern, slightly reddish laterally. 1+2 nd tergite entirely black, 3 rd tergite in hind 1/3–2/5 with rectangle transverse median spot, separated from lateral stripes by narrow areas of dusting; 4 th tergite with similar pattern, but pollinose areas between spots more wide; 5 th tergite in hind 0.6 with large median spot and paired rectangle lateral spots. M a l e. Unknown. Etymology: The species epithet is formed from the name of the type locality, Jedda . D i s t r i b u t i o n: Palaearctic: Asia: Saudi Arabia .