Finnish Pipunculidae (Diptera) studies Part I: Taxonomic notes on Cephalops Fallén, 1810, Pipunculus Latreille, 1802 and Tomosvaryella Aczél, 1939
Author
Kehlmaier, Christian
text
Zootaxa
2008
1672
1
42
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.180216
f7c4a979-1dc7-400b-b5b0-eec6919fa931
1175-5326
180216
Pipunculus carlestolrai
Kuznetzov, 1993
(
Figs 36, 40
&
61–62
)
Pipunculus carlestolrai
Kuznetzov, 1993a
: 139
Material:
Spain
, Cabrils, Can Tolrá, ahogado piscina: 1ɗ,
6.VIII.1991
, Carles-Tolrá (
PCCK
).
Male
: Body length:
5.4mm
. Wing length:
5.8mm
. Flagellum yellowish brown. Frons greyish pollinose. Eyes meeting for slightly less than length of frons (15 facets). Postpronotal lobe bright yellow. Prescutum and scutum greyish pollinose in anterior quarter, otherwise brownish pollinose. Pleura grey pollinose. Subscutellum grey pollinose. LTC about 1.1 times LFC. Trochanter yellow. Femur with basal and apical sixth yellow.
Hind
femur somewhat concave in ventrobasal half (less than in
P. l e n i s
). Tibia yellow, ventrally darkened in apical two thirds.
Hind
tibia rather bent. Tarsi yellowish, with distitarsi darkened. Pulvilli of front legs slightly longer than distitarsi. Tergite 1 laterally grey pollinose, dorsally not assessable. Tergite 2–5 laterally with posterior half grey, anterior half brown pollinose. Dorsally, tergite
2 in
anterior two thirds, tergite
3 in
anterior half, tergite
4 in
anterior third, tergite
5 in
anterior quarter brown pollinose. Membranous area key-hole shaped, with a weak keel. Surstyli and epandrium yellowish brown with inner surstylus slightly smaller and shorter than outer one (
Fig. 36
). All three ejaculatory ducts clearly sclerotized, covered in large membranous sacks.
FIGURES 22–29.
Surstyli in strictly dorsal and outer surstylus in lateral view of male
Pipunculus lenis
(22–23 & 27– 28) and
Pipunculus tenuirostris
(24–26 & 29). Scale bars = 0.1mm.
Female
: Not studied.
Kuznetzov (1993a)
provides a thorough description and figures the wing of the female
holotype
plus the abdomen and ovipositor of the
holotype
(see
Figs 61–62
) and one
paratype
.
Annotations
: The
type
series is currently with Sergey Kuznetzov in St. Petersburg and could not be studied.
Pipunculus carlestolrai
is the only species of this genus known at present with an exclusively Mediterranean distribution, so far only recorded from Barcelona Province,
Spain
.