A review of subtribe Phrosinellina Verves, 1989, with description of Phrosinella (Asiometopia) kocaki sp. nov. from the Middle East (Diptera: Sarcophagidae: Miltogramminae: Metopiaini)
Author
Verves, Yury
Author
Khrokalo, Liudmyla
text
Turkish Journal of Zoology
2017
2016-05-28
41
1
43
59
http://dx.doi.org/10.3906/zoo-1512-60
journal article
295431
10.3906/zoo-1512-60
55612074-37ed-42bc-b2cf-54986e32523e
1303-6114
10973790
A87957B6-B51C-4B90-ADCA-36F0EAD5572E
Phrosinella
(
Euhilarella
)
fulvicornis
(
Coquillett, 1895
)
Gymnoprosopa fulvicornis
Coquillett, 1895: 106
[
♂
♀
].
Hilarella fulvicornis
:
Coquillett, 1897: 128
[notes];
Barber, 1915: 187
[habits];
Britton, 1920: 192
[faunistic];
Brimley, 1922: 23
[faunistic];
Strickland, 1938: 175
, [faunistic];
Davis and Turner, 1978: 111
[faunistic].
Phrosinella fulvicornis
:
Allen, 1924: 92
[notes]; 1926: 70 [redescriptions of
♂
♀
, habits, faunistic];
Rowe, 1932
[faunistic];
Krombein, 1936: 93
[habits];
Séguy, 1941: 305
[hosts];
Strandtmann, 1945: 305–308
[habits];
Krombein, 1955: 223
[habits];
Downes, 1965: 938
[catalogue];
Kurczewski and Harris, 1968: 81
[habits];
Miller and Kurczewski, 1973: 365
[habits];
Peckham et al., 1973: 647
[habits];
Miller and Kurczewski, 1975: 82
[habits];
Peckham, 1977: 823
[habits];
Downes, 1985: 271
[taxonomy & faunistic];
Spofford et al., 1989: 257
[hosts];
Pape, 1996: 123
[catalogue];
Pickering, 2011: 1631
, 1653, 1657, 1660, 1661, 1685, 1693, 1712, 1713, 1721, 1724, 1725 [habits].
Holotype
(
male
):
USA
,
New Jersey
,
Avalon
.
Holotype
in
USNM
.
Distribution:
Nearctic:
Canada
(
New Brunswick
: Prince Edward I.)
9
,
USA
(
Connecticut
,
Florida
,
Kansas
,
Massachusetts
,
Michigan
,
Mississippi
,
New Jersey
,
New York
,
Pennsylvania
,
South Carolina
,
Texas
).
Habits:
Larvae develop in ground nests of different sphecid wasps, where they feed at host prey (paralyzed or freshly killed insects), viz:
1. At freshly killed adult flies:
Bembix americana
(
Barber, 1915
;
Krombein, 1936
;
Evans, 1966a
;
Peckham and Peckham, 1898
),
Bembix spinolae
(
Allen, 1926
;
Séguy, 1941
;
Evans, 1957
),
Lindenius armaticeps
(
Miller and Kurczewski, 1973
,
1975
),
Oxybelus bipunctatus
(
Kurczewski and Harris, 1968
;
Peckham et al., 1973
),
O. emarginatus
(
Krombein and Kurczewski, 1963
;
Peckham, 1977
),
O. quadrinotatus
(
Séguy, 1941
)
,
O. subulatus
(
Peckham et al., 1973
;
Peckham, 1977
),
O. uniglumis
(
Allen, 1926
;
Strandtmann, 1945
;
Krombein, 1955
;
Evans and Lin, 1959
;
Evans, 1970
;
Peckham et al., 1973
).
2. At freshly killed adult solitary wasps, bees, and honey bees:
Philanthus albopilosus
(
Spofford et al., 1989
)
,
P. crabroniformis
(
Spofford et al., 1989
)
,
P. gibbosus
(
Evans and O’Neil, 1988
)
,
P
.
politus
(
Evans and O’Neil, 1988
)
,
P. pulcher
(
Evans, 1966b
,
1970
),
P
.
sanbornii
(
Evans and O’Neil, 1988
)
,
P. solivagus
(
Ristich, 1956
)
,
P. zebratus
(
Spofford et al., 1989
)
.
3. At paralyzed nymphs and adults of
Orthoptera
:
Tachysphex acutus
(
Kurczewski, 1964
)
,
Tachysphex mergus
(
Krombein and Kurczewski, 1963
)
,
T
.
similis
,
T
.
tarsatus
(
Kurczewski, 1964
)
,
T
.
terminatus
(
Krombein and Kurczewski, 1963
;
Kurczewski, 1964
;
Kurczewski and Harris, 1968
).
4. At paralyzed or freshly killed nymphs and adults of Homoptera, Cicadoidea:
Alysson melleus
(
Evans, 1966a
)
,
Gorytes canaliculatus
(
Evans, 1966a
,
1970
,
1973
)
5. At freshly killed adult and nymphs of
Hemiptera, Homoptera
, adult
Hymenoptera
and
Diptera
:
Lindnerius columbianus
(
Miller and Kurczewski, 1973
;
Pickering, 2011
).