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(in alcohol), 
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(
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and 
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, same data as holotype (
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; 5 ♀ and 2 ♂ paratypes, 
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same data as holotype (
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), 
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and 
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, 
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<emphasis id="1BC354707449BF5DCBF3FBD2FEF0F802" bold="true" box="[199,321,1927,1952]" pageId="1" pageNumber="56">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="1BC354707449BF5DC90FFBD2FD26F802" bold="true" box="[571,663,1927,1952]" pageId="1" pageNumber="56">sp. nov.</emphasis>
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is morphologically similar to 
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<emphasis id="1BC354707449BF5DC8C3FBD2FBC7F83D" box="[1015,1142,1927,1951]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="56">Ph. vagans</emphasis>
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but is easily distinguished by the long dorsal process on the first antennal flagellomere (shorter than the style in 
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) and in females also by the completely yellow scutellum (yellow with a small black mark in 
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).
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, wing length: 
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(
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c, e) completely black; frons gray dusted, with short white hairs; parafacials dusted along eye margin, with sparse short white hairs; mentum gray dusted; ocellar tubercle prominent black, with a few white hairs; eyes in contact for about 2.0 times frons length, contact sector of eyes medially depressed, facets of upper half of eyes enlarged; antennae (
<figureCitation id="B18C94E7744ABF5EC931FD72FDF5FEE2" box="[517,580,295,320]" captionStart="FIGURE 1" captionStartId="3.[151,250,1953,1975]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,195,1928]" captionTargetId="figure@3.[151,1436,195,1928]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURE 1. Phthiria vaganoides sp. nov., male holotype: a. lateral view; b. thorax (dorsal view); c. head (dorsal view); d. abdomen (dorsal view); e. head (lateral view); f. antenna." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/837141/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="57">Fig. 1</figureCitation>
f) completely black, scape quadrate, wider than long, pedicel cylindrical, as long as wide, first flagellomere long, 2.5 times greatest width, dorsal process 1.5 times length of transparent style; occiput with long white hairs; palpi black, proboscis long, 2.5 times head length, black. 
<emphasis id="1BC35470744ABF5ECFF3FD3AFA91FE2A" bold="true" box="[1223,1312,367,392]" pageId="2" pageNumber="57">Thorax</emphasis>
(
<figureCitation id="B18C94E7744ABF5ECE01FD3AFACAFE2A" box="[1333,1403,367,392]" captionStart="FIGURE 1" captionStartId="3.[151,250,1953,1975]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,195,1928]" captionTargetId="figure@3.[151,1436,195,1928]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURE 1. Phthiria vaganoides sp. nov., male holotype: a. lateral view; b. thorax (dorsal view); c. head (dorsal view); d. abdomen (dorsal view); e. head (lateral view); f. antenna." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/837141/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="57">Fig. 1</figureCitation>
b). Mesonotum black, densely white haired, length of hairs about equal to combined length of two basal antennal segments, gray dusted, except narrow line admedially and wide lateral stripe from transverse suture to postalar calli; scutellum black, gray dusted with long dense white hairs; pleura completely black, gray dusted, katepisternum and anepisternum with long white hairs, laterotergite with few white bristles, halter stem and knob white. 
<emphasis id="1BC35470744ABF5ECBD0FE71FE94FD9F" bold="true" box="[228,293,548,573]" pageId="2" pageNumber="57">Wing</emphasis>
. Hyaline, uniformly microtrichose; veins blackish brown; costa reaches vein CuA2+A1; R4+5 originates at level of m-m crossvein; crossvein r-m beyond middle of discal cell; anal cell closed, stalked; anal lobe wide; alula narrow, longer than wide. 
<emphasis id="1BC35470744ABF5ECACEFE3BFD96FD25" bold="true" box="[506,551,622,647]" pageId="2" pageNumber="57">Leg</emphasis>
(
<figureCitation id="B18C94E7744ABF5EC902FE3BFDC4FD25" box="[566,629,622,647]" captionStart="FIGURE 1" captionStartId="3.[151,250,1953,1975]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,195,1928]" captionTargetId="figure@3.[151,1436,195,1928]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURE 1. Phthiria vaganoides sp. nov., male holotype: a. lateral view; b. thorax (dorsal view); c. head (dorsal view); d. abdomen (dorsal view); e. head (lateral view); f. antenna." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/837141/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="57">Fig. 1</figureCitation>
a). Blackish brown; coxae and femora with long white hairs; tibiae with a few black bristles; tarsal segments ventrolaterally with dense black bristles; empodium white, as long as claw. 
<emphasis id="1BC35470744ABF5ECBA3FEE3FEBDFD6D" bold="true" box="[151,268,694,719]" pageId="2" pageNumber="57">Abdomen</emphasis>
(
<figureCitation id="B18C94E7744ABF5ECA2BFEE3FED2FD6D" box="[287,355,694,719]" captionStart="FIGURE 1" captionStartId="3.[151,250,1953,1975]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,195,1928]" captionTargetId="figure@3.[151,1436,195,1928]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURE 1. Phthiria vaganoides sp. nov., male holotype: a. lateral view; b. thorax (dorsal view); c. head (dorsal view); d. abdomen (dorsal view); e. head (lateral view); f. antenna." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/837141/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="57">Fig. 1</figureCitation>
d). Tergites with long white hairs, tergite I black except two large yellow spots at posterior corners, other tergites black with posterior margin of each yellow, black spots on tergites III to last tergite; sternites black with posterior margins narrowly yellow. 
<emphasis id="1BC35470744ABF5EC99DFEABFCA6FCB5" bold="true" box="[681,791,766,791]" pageId="2" pageNumber="57">Genitalia</emphasis>
. Hypopygium black except gonocoxites apically yellow; epandrium triangular in dorsal view, with small invagination apically (
<figureCitation id="B18C94E7744ABF5EC8F8FF77FBA5FC99" box="[972,1044,802,827]" captionStart="FIGURE 2" captionStartId="4.[151,250,1959,1981]" captionTargetBox="[167,1411,213,1916]" captionTargetId="figure@4.[167,1411,193,1916]" captionTargetPageId="4" captionText="FIGURE 2. Phthiria vaganoides sp. nov., male genitalia: a. phalic complex (dorsal view); b. gonocoxites left half (dorsal view); c. gonocoxites ventral view; d. hypopygium (lateral view); e. epandrium (dorsal view)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/837143/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="57">Fig. 2</figureCitation>
e); gonocoxites fused, longer than wide, apicomesal process short with small bristles; gonostyli elongate oval (
<figureCitation id="B18C94E7744ABF5ECF30FF13FBE4FCFD" box="[1028,1109,838,863]" captionStart="FIGURE 2" captionStartId="4.[151,250,1959,1981]" captionTargetBox="[167,1411,213,1916]" captionTargetId="figure@4.[167,1411,193,1916]" captionTargetPageId="4" captionText="FIGURE 2. Phthiria vaganoides sp. nov., male genitalia: a. phalic complex (dorsal view); b. gonocoxites left half (dorsal view); c. gonocoxites ventral view; d. hypopygium (lateral view); e. epandrium (dorsal view)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/837143/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="57">Figs. 2</figureCitation>
b, c); basal aedeagal process narrow in dorsal view with two lateral rami basally, lateral aedeagal apodemes narrow (
<figureCitation id="B18C94E7744ABF5ECF5AFF3FFB02FC21" box="[1134,1203,874,899]" captionStart="FIGURE 2" captionStartId="4.[151,250,1959,1981]" captionTargetBox="[167,1411,213,1916]" captionTargetId="figure@4.[167,1411,193,1916]" captionTargetPageId="4" captionText="FIGURE 2. Phthiria vaganoides sp. nov., male genitalia: a. phalic complex (dorsal view); b. gonocoxites left half (dorsal view); c. gonocoxites ventral view; d. hypopygium (lateral view); e. epandrium (dorsal view)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/837143/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="57">Fig. 2</figureCitation>
a); aedeagus apically curved (
<figureCitation id="B18C94E7744ABF5ECBC6FFDBFE87FC05" box="[242,310,910,935]" captionStart="FIGURE 2" captionStartId="4.[151,250,1959,1981]" captionTargetBox="[167,1411,213,1916]" captionTargetId="figure@4.[167,1411,193,1916]" captionTargetPageId="4" captionText="FIGURE 2. Phthiria vaganoides sp. nov., male genitalia: a. phalic complex (dorsal view); b. gonocoxites left half (dorsal view); c. gonocoxites ventral view; d. hypopygium (lateral view); e. epandrium (dorsal view)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/837143/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="57">Fig. 2</figureCitation>
d).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="29088862744ABF5ECBF3FFE7FE1CF8D1" blockId="2.[151,1437,151,1943]" pageId="2" pageNumber="57">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744ABF5ECBF3FFE7FEDEFC69" bold="true" box="[199,367,946,971]" pageId="2" pageNumber="57">Female. Head</emphasis>
. (
<figureCitation id="B18C94E7744ABF5ECABCFFE7FE69FC69" box="[392,472,946,971]" captionStart="FIGURE 3" captionStartId="5.[151,250,1981,2003]" captionTargetBox="[308,1263,193,1921]" captionTargetId="figure@5.[308,1264,193,1921]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="FIGURE 3. Phthiria vaganoides sp. nov., female paratype: a. lateral view; b. thorax (dorsal view); c. abdomen (dorsal view); d. head (dorsal view); e. head (lateral view)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/837145/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="57">Figs. 3</figureCitation>
a, d &amp; e) Occiput black medially, yellow laterally, with white hairs, length of hairs equal to combined length of two basal antennal segments; vertex yellow; frons yellow, with brownish stripe medially gradually broadened and extended to apex of antennal tubercle, with clear depression at base; parafacials yellow except a black spot at level of scape extended horizontally to eye margin and extending along oral margin as black line to level of lower margin of eyes; oral margin with short scattered white hairs; ocellar tubercle raised, black, ocelli as equilateral triangle; scape brown with two yellow spots on upper side, slightly longer than wide; pedicel black, cylindrical, wider than long; first antennal flagellomere oval, with long dorsal process, longer than width of first flagellomere apically; style transparent, shorter than antennal process; mentum medially with black stripe extending to oral margin; palpi black, with few short white hairs; proboscis long, 2.5 times head length, black. 
<emphasis id="1BC35470744ABF5ECBD3F8A3FEF1FAAD" bold="true" box="[231,320,1270,1295]" pageId="2" pageNumber="57">Thorax</emphasis>
(
<figureCitation id="B18C94E7744ABF5ECA60F8A3FE2AFAAD" box="[340,411,1270,1295]" captionStart="FIGURE 3" captionStartId="5.[151,250,1981,2003]" captionTargetBox="[308,1263,193,1921]" captionTargetId="figure@5.[308,1264,193,1921]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="FIGURE 3. Phthiria vaganoides sp. nov., female paratype: a. lateral view; b. thorax (dorsal view); c. abdomen (dorsal view); d. head (dorsal view); e. head (lateral view)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/837145/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="57">Fig. 3</figureCitation>
b). mesonotum yellow, with whitish short hairs; with two paired blackish gray stripes, admedian stripes from anterior margin of mesonotum to ¾ length of mesonotum, lateral stripes from postpronotal lobes to scutellum, then narrowly extending medially; postpronotal lobes yellow, with long white hairs; prescutellar area yellow; scutellum yellow, black ventrally; anepisternum with long white hairs, lower half black, upper half yellow; anepimeron yellow, except anterior margin widely black; katepisternum black except upper margin widely yellow, with few long white hairs; meron black except a yellow spot at upper margin; halter stem and knob white. 
<emphasis id="1BC35470744ABF5ECA6CF99BFE34FA45" bold="true" box="[344,389,1486,1511]" pageId="2" pageNumber="57">Leg</emphasis>
. Coxa I brownish black with anterior surface mostly yellow, with long white hairs; coxa II brownish black dorsally with yellow spot, with long white hairs; coxa III brownish black; femur densely covered with white hairs, tibia I, II with a few black bristles apically, dorsal margin of tibia III with row of black bristles; tarsal segments with short bristles laterally, metatarsus as long as other segments combined, with row of black bristles; tarsal segment II ventrally with row of black bristles. 
<emphasis id="1BC35470744ABF5EC863FA0BFC7AF9D5" bold="true" box="[855,971,1630,1655]" pageId="2" pageNumber="57">Abdomen</emphasis>
(
<figureCitation id="B18C94E7744ABF5EC8E8FA0BFB91F9D5" box="[988,1056,1630,1655]" captionStart="FIGURE 3" captionStartId="5.[151,250,1981,2003]" captionTargetBox="[308,1263,193,1921]" captionTargetId="figure@5.[308,1264,193,1921]" captionTargetPageId="5" captionText="FIGURE 3. Phthiria vaganoides sp. nov., female paratype: a. lateral view; b. thorax (dorsal view); c. abdomen (dorsal view); d. head (dorsal view); e. head (lateral view)." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/837145/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="57">Fig. 3</figureCitation>
c). Tergites with long white hairs, with two rows of black spots laterally; tergite I yellow; tergite II yellow, with black rectangular spot medially; other tergites yellow with posterior margin of each blackish brown; sternites blackish brown, posterior margin of each very narrowly yellow. 
<emphasis id="1BC35470744ABF5ECA94FA9FFE51F941" bold="true" box="[416,480,1738,1763]" pageId="2" pageNumber="57">Wing</emphasis>
. As male (
<figureCitation id="B18C94E7744ABF5EC953FA9FFD1EF941" box="[615,687,1738,1763]" captionStart="FIGURE 4" captionStartId="6.[151,250,1979,2001]" captionTargetBox="[315,1262,193,1949]" captionTargetId="figure@6.[315,1262,193,1949]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="FIGURE 4. Phthiria vaganoides sp. nov.: a. female wing; b. female genitalia; c. female genitalia without furca." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/837147/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="57">Fig. 4</figureCitation>
a). 
<emphasis id="1BC35470744ABF5EC9E1FA9FFCF2F941" bold="true" box="[725,835,1738,1763]" pageId="2" pageNumber="57">Genitalia</emphasis>
(
<figureCitation id="B18C94E7744ABF5EC863FA9FFC1BF941" box="[855,938,1738,1763]" captionStart="FIGURE 4" captionStartId="6.[151,250,1979,2001]" captionTargetBox="[315,1262,193,1949]" captionTargetId="figure@6.[315,1262,193,1949]" captionTargetPageId="6" captionText="FIGURE 4. Phthiria vaganoides sp. nov.: a. female wing; b. female genitalia; c. female genitalia without furca." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/837147/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="57">Figs. 4</figureCitation>
b-c). Furca consisting of two parallel bars; common spermathecal duct short, membranous; basal ducts membranous; sperm pump as wide as apical ducts, striated, dilated apically, slightly sclerotized, slightly longer than apical ducts; apical ducts slightly sclerotized; spermathecal reservoir membranous, round, apical process well sclerotized, cone-shaped, slightly curved, about 3.0 times capsule length.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="61ADDBE9744ABF5ECBF3FB2BFB07F835" box="[199,1206,1918,1943]" pageId="2" pageNumber="57" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="29088862744ABF5ECBF3FB2BFB07F835" blockId="2.[151,1437,151,1943]" box="[199,1206,1918,1943]" pageId="2" pageNumber="57">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744ABF5ECBF3FB2BFED1F835" bold="true" box="[199,352,1918,1943]" pageId="2" pageNumber="57">Distribution.</emphasis>
This species is currently known only from northern 
<collectingCountry id="51A0C8F2744ABF5EC898FBD5FC68F835" box="[940,985,1920,1943]" name="Iran" pageId="2" pageNumber="57">Iran</collectingCountry>
(
<collectingRegion id="EB734680744ABF5EC8DCFB2BFB1AF835" box="[1000,1195,1918,1943]" country="Iran" name="Qazvin" pageId="2" pageNumber="57">Qazvin Province</collectingRegion>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<caption id="7DC8D8EA744BBF5FCBA3FBF4FD6DF877" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/837141/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="58" targetBox="[151,1435,195,1928]" targetPageId="3">
<paragraph id="29088862744BBF5FCBA3FBF4FD6DF877" blockId="3.[151,1435,1953,2005]" pageId="3" pageNumber="58">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744BBF5FCBA3FBF4FEBFF815" bold="true" box="[151,270,1953,1975]" pageId="3" pageNumber="58">FIGURE 1</emphasis>
. 
<taxonomicName id="EEB7F3E1744BBF5FCA29FBF4FE5CF815" authority="Gharali &amp; Evenhuis, 2017" authorityName="Gharali &amp; Evenhuis" authorityYear="2017" box="[285,493,1953,1975]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Phthiria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="58" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="vaganoides" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744BBF5FCA29FBF4FE5CF815" box="[285,493,1953,1975]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="58">Phthiria vaganoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="00F0E90B744BBF5FCAC2FBF4FDF8F815" box="[502,585,1953,1975]" pageId="3" pageNumber="58" rank="species">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744BBF5FCAC2FBF4FDF8F815" bold="true" box="[502,585,1953,1975]" pageId="3" pageNumber="58">sp. nov.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
, male holotype: 
<emphasis id="1BC35470744BBF5FC9CEFBF4FCB6F815" bold="true" box="[762,775,1953,1975]" pageId="3" pageNumber="58">a</emphasis>
. lateral view; 
<emphasis id="1BC35470744BBF5FC8AAFBF4FC1DF815" bold="true" box="[926,940,1953,1975]" pageId="3" pageNumber="58">b</emphasis>
. thorax (dorsal view); 
<emphasis id="1BC35470744BBF5FCFA9FBF4FB19F815" bold="true" box="[1181,1192,1953,1975]" pageId="3" pageNumber="58">c</emphasis>
. head (dorsal view); 
<emphasis id="1BC35470744BBF5FCEB3FBF4FA24F815" bold="true" box="[1415,1429,1953,1975]" pageId="3" pageNumber="58">d</emphasis>
. abdomen (dorsal view); 
<emphasis id="1BC35470744BBF5FCAB9FBEAFE29F877" bold="true" box="[397,408,1983,2005]" pageId="3" pageNumber="58">e</emphasis>
. head (lateral view); 
<emphasis id="1BC35470744BBF5FC944FBEAFDC8F877" bold="true" box="[624,633,1983,2005]" pageId="3" pageNumber="58">f</emphasis>
. antenna.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<caption id="7DC8D8EA744CBF58CBA3FBF2FBFEF879" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/837143/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="59" targetBox="[167,1411,213,1916]" targetPageId="4">
<paragraph id="29088862744CBF58CBA3FBF2FBFEF879" blockId="4.[151,1436,1959,2011]" pageId="4" pageNumber="59">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744CBF58CBA3FBF2FEBFF81F" bold="true" box="[151,270,1959,1981]" pageId="4" pageNumber="59">FIGURE 2</emphasis>
. 
<taxonomicName id="EEB7F3E1744CBF58CA2AFBF2FE5EF81F" authority="Gharali &amp; Evenhuis, 2017" authorityName="Gharali &amp; Evenhuis" authorityYear="2017" box="[286,495,1959,1981]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Phthiria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="59" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="vaganoides" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744CBF58CA2AFBF2FE5EF81F" box="[286,495,1959,1981]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="59">Phthiria vaganoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="00F0E90B744CBF58CACCFBF2FDFAF81F" box="[504,587,1959,1981]" pageId="4" pageNumber="59" rank="species">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744CBF58CACCFBF2FDFAF81F" bold="true" box="[504,587,1959,1981]" pageId="4" pageNumber="59">sp. nov.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
, male genitalia: 
<emphasis id="1BC35470744CBF58C9C9FBF2FCB8F81F" bold="true" box="[765,777,1959,1981]" pageId="4" pageNumber="59">a</emphasis>
. phalic complex (dorsal view); 
<emphasis id="1BC35470744CBF58CF6DFBF2FBD6F81F" bold="true" box="[1113,1127,1959,1981]" pageId="4" pageNumber="59">b</emphasis>
. gonocoxites left half (dorsal view); 
<emphasis id="1BC35470744CBF58CBEAFB90FF58F879" bold="true" box="[222,233,1989,2011]" pageId="4" pageNumber="59">c</emphasis>
. gonocoxites ventral view; 
<emphasis id="1BC35470744CBF58C936FB90FDA1F879" bold="true" box="[514,528,1989,2011]" pageId="4" pageNumber="59">d</emphasis>
. hypopygium (lateral view); 
<emphasis id="1BC35470744CBF58C803FB90FCF3F879" bold="true" box="[823,834,1989,2011]" pageId="4" pageNumber="59">e</emphasis>
. epandrium (dorsal view).
</paragraph>
</caption>
<caption id="7DC8D8EA744DBF59CBA3FBE8FDE9F850" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/837145/files/figure.png" pageId="5" pageNumber="60" targetBox="[308,1263,193,1921]" targetPageId="5">
<paragraph id="29088862744DBF59CBA3FBE8FDE9F850" blockId="5.[151,1436,1981,2034]" pageId="5" pageNumber="60">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744DBF59CBA3FBE8FEBDF871" bold="true" box="[151,268,1981,2003]" pageId="5" pageNumber="60">FIGURE 3</emphasis>
. 
<taxonomicName id="EEB7F3E1744DBF59CA2DFBE8FE59F871" authority="Gharali &amp; Evenhuis, 2017" authorityName="Gharali &amp; Evenhuis" authorityYear="2017" box="[281,488,1981,2003]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Phthiria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="60" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="vaganoides" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744DBF59CA2DFBE8FE59F871" box="[281,488,1981,2003]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="60">Phthiria vaganoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="00F0E90B744DBF59CADAFBE8FD8EF871" box="[494,575,1981,2003]" pageId="5" pageNumber="60" rank="species">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744DBF59CADAFBE8FD8EF871" bold="true" box="[494,575,1981,2003]" pageId="5" pageNumber="60">sp. nov.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
, female paratype: 
<emphasis id="1BC35470744DBF59C9C9FBE8FCBBF871" bold="true" box="[765,778,1981,2003]" pageId="5" pageNumber="60">a</emphasis>
. lateral view; 
<emphasis id="1BC35470744DBF59C8A8FBE8FC1BF871" bold="true" box="[924,938,1981,2003]" pageId="5" pageNumber="60">b</emphasis>
. thorax (dorsal view); 
<emphasis id="1BC35470744DBF59CFA6FBE8FB2CF871" bold="true" box="[1170,1181,1981,2003]" pageId="5" pageNumber="60">c</emphasis>
. abdomen (dorsal view); 
<emphasis id="1BC35470744DBF59CBA3FB89FF14F850" bold="true" box="[151,165,2012,2034]" pageId="5" pageNumber="60">d</emphasis>
. head (dorsal view); 
<emphasis id="1BC35470744DBF59CA4FFB89FE37F850" bold="true" box="[379,390,2012,2034]" pageId="5" pageNumber="60">e</emphasis>
. head (lateral view).
</paragraph>
</caption>
<caption id="7DC8D8EA744EBF5ACBA3FBEEFABBF873" box="[151,1290,1979,2001]" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/837147/files/figure.png" pageId="6" pageNumber="61" targetBox="[315,1262,193,1949]" targetPageId="6">
<paragraph id="29088862744EBF5ACBA3FBEEFABBF873" blockId="6.[151,1290,1979,2001]" box="[151,1290,1979,2001]" pageId="6" pageNumber="61">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744EBF5ACBA3FBEEFEBDF873" bold="true" box="[151,268,1979,2001]" pageId="6" pageNumber="61">FIGURE 4</emphasis>
. 
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744EBF5ACA2CFBEEFE57F873" box="[280,486,1979,2001]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="61">Phthiria vaganoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="00F0E90B744EBF5ACAD9FBEEFD8CF873" box="[493,573,1979,2001]" pageId="6" pageNumber="61" rank="species">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744EBF5ACAD9FBEEFD8CF873" bold="true" box="[493,573,1979,2001]" pageId="6" pageNumber="61">sp. nov.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
: 
<emphasis id="1BC35470744EBF5AC97FFBEEFDE9F873" bold="true" box="[587,600,1979,2001]" pageId="6" pageNumber="61">a</emphasis>
. female wing; 
<emphasis id="1BC35470744EBF5AC9DBFBEEFD4CF873" bold="true" box="[751,765,1979,2001]" pageId="6" pageNumber="61">b</emphasis>
. female genitalia; 
<emphasis id="1BC35470744EBF5AC88EFBEEFC7AF873" bold="true" box="[954,971,1979,2001]" pageId="6" pageNumber="61">c.</emphasis>
female genitalia without furca.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<subSubSection id="61ADDBE9744FBF54CBF3FCC2FEF7FD52" lastPageId="8" lastPageNumber="63" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="29088862744FBF5BCBF3FCC2FC16FF77" blockId="7.[151,1437,151,2034]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCBF3FCC2FEFFFF12" bold="true" box="[199,334,151,176]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Etymology.</emphasis>
The name of new species composed of 
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BC83CFCCCFCE2FF12" box="[776,851,153,176]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">vagan,</emphasis>
derived from 
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BC8C5FCCDFB15FF12" box="[1009,1188,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Phthiria vagans</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(a common species in 
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) + - 
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCBC0FCE9FE9EFF76" box="[244,303,188,212]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">oides</emphasis>
(= similar) referring to the similarity of the two species.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="29088862744FBF5BCBF3FC8AFE04FC06" blockId="7.[151,1437,151,2034]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCBF3FC8AFE07FF5A" bold="true" box="[199,438,223,248]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Taxonomic remarks</emphasis>
. There is no comprehensive key to species of 
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BC8FCFCB5FB94FF5A" box="[968,1061,224,248]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Phthiria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in the Palaearctic Region except that in 
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, in which the key and descriptions did not include some species described before him such as 
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCBA3FD7DFEACFEE2" box="[151,285,296,320]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. tricolor</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="4D26F593744FBF5BCA1CFD72FE04FEE2" author="Bezzi" box="[296,437,295,320]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" refString="Bezzi, M. (1924) Missione del Dr. E. Festa in Cirenaica. XI. Ditteri di Cirenaica. Bolletino del Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della Reale Universita di Torino, 39, 1 - 26." type="journal article" year="1924">Bezzi, 1924</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
. Other keys such as those in 
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, 
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and 
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are limited, including only a few species of 
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BC947FD19FD61FEC6" box="[627,720,332,356]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Phthiria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
confined to the region where they worked. According to the Engel’s (1933) key, our species runs to 
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BC965FD25FD58FE2A" box="[593,745,368,392]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. subnitens</emphasis>
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Loew, 
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in males and the females run to 
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCFD5FD25FAE5FE2A" box="[1249,1364,368,392]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. gaedii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Male 
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCBA3FDC1FECAFE0E" box="[151,379,404,428]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Phthiria vaganoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCAB6FDC1FE6DFE0F" bold="true" box="[386,476,404,429]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="00F0E90B744FBF5BCAB6FDC1FE6DFE0F" box="[386,476,404,429]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
are easily distinguished from 
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BC81AFDC1FC77FE0E" box="[814,966,404,428]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. subnitens</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by the white hairs on mesonotum that are black in the new species. Also there is a brown spot on dorsal surface of knob of halter in 
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCFA5FDEDFA98FE72" box="[1169,1321,440,464]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. subnitens</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
while 
<taxonomicName id="EEB7F3E1744FBF5BCE42FDEDFEA6FE56" authority="Gharali &amp; Evenhuis, 2017" authorityName="Gharali &amp; Evenhuis" authorityYear="2017" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Phthiria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="vaganoides" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCE42FDEDFEA6FE56" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. vaganoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="00F0E90B744FBF5BCA29FD89FEC6FE57" box="[285,375,476,501]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" rank="species">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCA29FD89FEC6FE57" bold="true" box="[285,375,476,501]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">sp. nov.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
has completely white halteres. The females of 
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BC8BDFD89FB91FE56" box="[905,1056,476,500]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. subnitens</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
have a large triangular black spot on the scutellum but this spot is absent in the female of 
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BC839FE55FC0AFDBA" box="[781,955,512,536]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. vaganoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BC8F6FDAAFBADFDBA" bold="true" box="[962,1052,511,536]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">sp. nov.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
, whose is completely yellow. The males of 
<taxonomicName id="EEB7F3E1744FBF5BCBC9FE71FE1BFD9E" authority="Gharali &amp; Evenhuis, 2017" authorityName="Gharali &amp; Evenhuis" authorityYear="2017" box="[253,426,548,572]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Phthiria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="vaganoides" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCBC9FE71FE1BFD9E" box="[253,426,548,572]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. vaganoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCA84FE71FDB8FD9F" bold="true" box="[432,521,548,573]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">sp. nov.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
are easily separated from that of 
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BC849FE71FC41FD9E" box="[893,1008,548,572]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. gaedii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by the color of scutellum and postalar calli. In 
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCBC1FE1DFED8FDC2" box="[245,361,584,608]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. gaedii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
the scutellum and postalar calli are completely yellow but in the latter both are black and gray dusted. In the female of 
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCA8CFE39FD9EFD26" box="[440,559,620,644]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. gaedii</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, the prescutellar area is triangular black but 
<taxonomicName id="EEB7F3E1744FBF5BCF09FE39FB5FFD26" authority="Gharali &amp; Evenhuis, 2017" authorityName="Gharali &amp; Evenhuis" authorityYear="2017" box="[1085,1262,620,644]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Phthiria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="vaganoides" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCF09FE39FB5FFD26" box="[1085,1262,620,644]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. vaganoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="00F0E90B744FBF5BCFCCFE39FAE4FD27" box="[1272,1365,620,645]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" rank="species">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCFCCFE39FAE4FD27" bold="true" box="[1272,1365,620,645]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">sp. nov.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
has a completely yellow prescutellar area on which lateral dark mesonotal stripes extended as narrow stripes medially and are approximated in the middle. Based on Austen’s (1937) key, our new species runs to his new species, 
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCE42FEE1FF56FD4D" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. virgata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, which is known only by a single female specimen, but differences between two exist. In 
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCFD8FE8DFAC0FD4D" box="[1260,1393,728,752]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">
<taxonomicName id="EEB7F3E1744FBF5BCFD8FE8DFADCFD4D" authorityName="Austen" authorityYear="1937" box="[1260,1389,728,752]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Phthiria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="virgata">Ph. virgata</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
the tergites of the abdomen are black with a narrow yellow posterior margin but in 
<taxonomicName id="EEB7F3E1744FBF5BCF25FEA9FB0CFCB6" authority="Gharali &amp; Evenhuis, 2017" authorityName="Gharali &amp; Evenhuis" authorityYear="2017" box="[1041,1213,764,788]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Phthiria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="vaganoides" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCF25FEA9FB0CFCB6" box="[1041,1213,764,788]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. vaganoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="00F0E90B744FBF5BCFF1FEA9FAAFFCB7" box="[1221,1310,764,789]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" rank="species">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCFF1FEA9FAAFFCB7" bold="true" box="[1221,1310,764,789]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">sp. nov.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
abdominal tergite II is completely yellow with a small black mark in the middle and the other tergites are predominant yellow on the posterior margin and black on the anterior margin. Another difference is the color of the scutellum (completely yellow in 
<taxonomicName id="EEB7F3E1744FBF5BCAADFF3DFDF6FC22" authority="Gharali &amp; Evenhuis, 2017" authorityName="Gharali &amp; Evenhuis" authorityYear="2017" box="[409,583,872,896]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Phthiria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="vaganoides" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCAADFF3DFDF6FC22" box="[409,583,872,896]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. vaganoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="00F0E90B744FBF5BC964FF32FD1AFC22" box="[592,683,871,896]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" rank="species">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BC964FF32FD1AFC22" bold="true" box="[592,683,871,896]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">sp. nov.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
but with a triangular blackish brown spot on the upper surface of scutellum in 
<taxonomicName id="EEB7F3E1744FBF5BCA13FFD9FE15FC06" authorityName="Austen" authorityYear="1937" box="[295,420,908,932]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Phthiria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="virgata">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCA13FFD9FE15FC06" box="[295,420,908,932]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. virgata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="29088862744FBF5BCBF3FFFAFDDBFBD8" blockId="7.[151,1437,151,2034]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">
<bibRefCitation id="4D26F593744FBF5BCBF3FFFAFE33FC6A" author="Efflatoun" box="[199,386,943,968]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" refString="Efflatoun, H. C. (1945) A monograph of Egyptian Diptera. Part VI. Family Bombyliidae. Section I: Subfamily Bombyliidae Homeophthalmae. Bulletin de la Societe Fouad I er d'Entomologie, 29, 1 - 483." type="journal article" year="1945">Efflatoun (1945)</bibRefCitation>
studied the bee flies of 
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and described a new species of 
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCF77FFE5FB11FC6A" box="[1091,1184,944,968]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Phthiria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="EEB7F3E1744FBF5BCF9BFFE5FAD5FC6A" authorityName="Efflatoun" authorityYear="1945" box="[1199,1380,944,968]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Phthiria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="salmayensis">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCF9BFFE5FAD5FC6A" box="[1199,1380,944,968]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. salmayensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and proposed a key to four species of 
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BC914FF86FDCFFC49" box="[544,638,979,1003]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Phthiria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
known to him. 
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BC80CFF86FBACFC49" box="[824,1053,979,1003]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Phthiria vaganoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCF13FF86FB32FC4E" bold="true" box="[1063,1155,979,1004]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">sp. nov.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
is closely related to 
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCE42FF86FEAFFBAD" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. salmayensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
but it is distinguished in the male by different hair color on the frons. The color of hairs in 
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCE42FFA2FEAFFB90" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. salmayensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are black and in our new species is white. Females of the two species are easily separated by the distinctly different dark pattern on the frons. Our new species, 
<taxonomicName id="EEB7F3E1744FBF5BC853F86BFBFDFBF4" authority="Gharali &amp; Evenhuis, 2017" authorityName="Gharali &amp; Evenhuis" authorityYear="2017" box="[871,1100,1086,1110]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Phthiria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="vaganoides" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BC853F86BFBFDFBF4" box="[871,1100,1086,1110]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Phthiria vaganoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCF61F868FB01FBF4" bold="true" box="[1109,1200,1085,1110]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">sp. nov.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
also does not match with any species keyed in 
<bibRefCitation id="4D26F593744FBF5BCA8AF834FDD7FBD8" author="Zaitzev" box="[446,614,1121,1146]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" refString="Zaitzev, V. F. (1966) Parasitic flies of the family Bombyliidae (Diptera) in the fauna of Transcaucasia. Nauka, Moscow &amp; Leningrad, 375 pp. [in Russian]" type="book" year="1966">Zaitzev (1966)</bibRefCitation>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="29088862744FBF5BCBF3F8D1FE9DFB46" blockId="7.[151,1437,151,2034]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">
Subsequent to these studies, additional species have been described from different areas (
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). We place our new species with the species of 
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BC967F8FDFD01FB62" box="[595,688,1192,1216]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Phthiria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
with the long dorsal process at the apex of the first antennal flagellomere.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="29088862744FBF5BCBF3F8BAFCA9F913" blockId="7.[151,1437,151,2034]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">
<bibRefCitation id="4D26F593744FBF5BCBF3F8BAFEE3FAAA" author="Baez" box="[199,338,1263,1288]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" refString="Baez, M. (1985) El genero Phthiria en las Islas Canarias, con la descripcion de dos nuevas especies (Diptera, Bombyliidae). Anales de la Universidad de la Laguna. Facultad de Ciencias, 10, 61 - 70." type="journal article" year="1985">Báez (1985)</bibRefCitation>
described two new species, 
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BC9ACF8BAFD48FAA5" box="[664,761,1263,1287]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. freyi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName id="EEB7F3E1744FBF5BC806F8BAFC07FAA5" authorityName="Baez" authorityYear="1985" box="[818,950,1263,1287]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Phthiria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="antiqua">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BC806F8BAFC07FAA5" box="[818,950,1263,1287]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. antiqua</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and three subspecies of 
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCFE3F8BAFAECFAA5" box="[1239,1373,1263,1287]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. simonyi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from the 
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[all subspecies were raised to full species rank in Evenhuis &amp; Greathead (1999)]. 
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCE31F946FA2AFA89" box="[1285,1435,1299,1323]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Phthiria freyi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is easily distinguished from 
<taxonomicName id="EEB7F3E1744FBF5BCAE9F963FD3DFAEC" authority="Gharali &amp; Evenhuis, 2017" authorityName="Gharali &amp; Evenhuis" authorityYear="2017" box="[477,652,1334,1358]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Phthiria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="vaganoides" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCAE9F963FD3DFAEC" box="[477,652,1334,1358]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. vaganoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="00F0E90B744FBF5BC9A2F963FD43FAED" box="[662,754,1334,1359]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" rank="species">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BC9A2F963FD43FAED" bold="true" box="[662,754,1334,1359]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">sp. nov.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
in both sexes by the large ventral process of first antennal flagellomere (see 
<bibRefCitation id="4D26F593744FBF5BCA54F90FFE50FAD0" author="Baez" box="[352,481,1369,1394]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" refString="Baez, M. (1985) El genero Phthiria en las Islas Canarias, con la descripcion de dos nuevas especies (Diptera, Bombyliidae). Anales de la Universidad de la Laguna. Facultad de Ciencias, 10, 61 - 70." type="journal article" year="1985">Báez, 1985</bibRefCitation>
; page 68, fig. 5). The male of 
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BC801F90CFC25FAD3" box="[821,916,1369,1393]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. freyi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is also different from 
<taxonomicName id="EEB7F3E1744FBF5BCFBAF90CFA8AFAD3" authority="Gharali &amp; Evenhuis, 2017" authorityName="Gharali &amp; Evenhuis" authorityYear="2017" box="[1166,1339,1369,1393]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Phthiria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="vaganoides" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCFBAF90CFA8AFAD3" box="[1166,1339,1369,1393]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. vaganoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCE76F90CFA2DFAD0" bold="true" box="[1346,1436,1369,1394]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">sp. nov.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
by the color of hairs on mesonotum that are completely black, while in the new species they are completely white. Females of 
<taxonomicName id="EEB7F3E1744FBF5BCA15F9F5FE35FA1A" authorityName="Baez" authorityYear="1985" box="[289,388,1440,1464]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Phthiria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="freyi">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCA15F9F5FE35FA1A" box="[289,388,1440,1464]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. freyi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
have the scutellum black with a yellow apex and two yellow spots basally, while in 
<taxonomicName id="EEB7F3E1744FBF5BCE42F9F5FEA6FA7E" authority="Gharali &amp; Evenhuis, 2017" authorityName="Gharali &amp; Evenhuis" authorityYear="2017" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Phthiria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="vaganoides" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCE42F9F5FEA6FA7E" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. vaganoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="00F0E90B744FBF5BCA10F991FE35FA7F" box="[292,388,1476,1501]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" rank="species">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCA10F991FE35FA7F" bold="true" box="[292,388,1476,1501]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">sp. nov.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
the color of the female scutellum is completely yellow. 
<taxonomicName id="EEB7F3E1744FBF5BCF03F991FB48FA7E" authorityName="Becker" authorityYear="1908" box="[1079,1273,1476,1500]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Phthiria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="simonyi">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCF03F991FB48FA7E" box="[1079,1273,1476,1500]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Phthiria simonyi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and its three originally proposed subspecies (currently treated as 
<taxonomicName id="EEB7F3E1744FBF5BC9D1F9B2FBA2F9A2" authority="Baez, 1985" authorityName="Baez" authorityYear="1985" box="[741,1043,1511,1536]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Phthiria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="ombriosus">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BC9D1F9B2FC39FA5D" box="[741,904,1511,1535]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. ombriosus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="4D26F593744FBF5BC8A5F9BDFBA2F9A2" author="Baez" box="[913,1043,1511,1536]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" refString="Baez, M. (1985) El genero Phthiria en las Islas Canarias, con la descripcion de dos nuevas especies (Diptera, Bombyliidae). Anales de la Universidad de la Laguna. Facultad de Ciencias, 10, 61 - 70." type="journal article" year="1985">Báez, 1985</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
; 
<taxonomicName id="EEB7F3E1744FBF5BCF14F9B2FAFEF9A2" authority="Baez, 1985" authorityName="Baez" authorityYear="1985" box="[1056,1359,1511,1536]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Phthiria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="intermedia">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCF14F9B2FB79FA5D" box="[1056,1224,1511,1535]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. intermedia</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="4D26F593744FBF5BCFE4F9BDFAFEF9A2" author="Baez" box="[1232,1359,1511,1536]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" refString="Baez, M. (1985) El genero Phthiria en las Islas Canarias, con la descripcion de dos nuevas especies (Diptera, Bombyliidae). Anales de la Universidad de la Laguna. Facultad de Ciencias, 10, 61 - 70." type="journal article" year="1985">Báez, 1985</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
&amp; 
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCE42F9B2FF57F981" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. lazaroi</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="4D26F593744FBF5BCBDAFA5EFEC1F986" author="Baez" box="[238,368,1547,1572]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" refString="Baez, M. (1985) El genero Phthiria en las Islas Canarias, con la descripcion de dos nuevas especies (Diptera, Bombyliidae). Anales de la Universidad de la Laguna. Facultad de Ciencias, 10, 61 - 70." type="journal article" year="1985">Báez, 1985</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
) are easily distinguished from males of 
<taxonomicName id="EEB7F3E1744FBF5BC876FA5EFC40F981" authority="Gharali &amp; Evenhuis, 2017" authorityName="Gharali &amp; Evenhuis" authorityYear="2017" box="[834,1009,1547,1571]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Phthiria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="vaganoides" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BC876FA5EFCD0F981" box="[834,865,1547,1571]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph</emphasis>
. 
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BC846FA5EFC40F981" box="[882,1009,1547,1571]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">vaganoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="00F0E90B744FBF5BC8CEFA5EFBE7F986" box="[1018,1110,1547,1572]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" rank="species">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BC8CEFA5EFBE7F986" bold="true" box="[1018,1110,1547,1572]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">sp. nov.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
by the color of hairs on the mesonotum and by the color of the scutellum in the females. Hairs on male mesonotum are scattered and black in the former species but they are completely yellow and dense in the latter. The scutellum in the females of 
<taxonomicName id="EEB7F3E1744FBF5BCE42FA07FF5FF92F" authorityName="Becker" authorityYear="1908" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Phthiria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="simonyi">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCE42FA07FF5FF92F" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. simonyi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and its subspecies is gray with two yellow spots in each side of the lateral margins while the females of 
<taxonomicName id="EEB7F3E1744FBF5BCE42FA20FEA6F913" authority="Gharali &amp; Evenhuis, 2017" authorityName="Gharali &amp; Evenhuis" authorityYear="2017" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Phthiria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="vaganoides" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCE42FA20FEA6F913" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. vaganoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCA29FACDFEC7F913" bold="true" box="[285,374,1688,1713]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">sp. nov.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
have a completely yellow scutellum.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="29088862744FBF5BCBF3FAE9FD2AF8C0" blockId="7.[151,1437,151,2034]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">
<bibRefCitation id="4D26F593744FBF5BCBF3FAE9FDABF977" author="Greathead" box="[199,538,1724,1749]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" refString="Greathead, D. J. &amp; Evenhuis, N. L. (2001) Bombylioidea (Diptera: Bombyliidae; Mythicomyiidae) from the island of Socotra. Zootaxa, 14 (1), 1 - 11." type="journal article" year="2001">Greathead &amp; Evenhuis (2001)</bibRefCitation>
and 
<bibRefCitation id="4D26F593744FBF5BC966FAE9FCA6F977" author="Greathead" box="[594,791,1724,1749]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" refString="Greathead, D. J. (2004) Bombylioidea (Diptera) from the Socotra Archipelago: A new species of Phthiria Meigen, 1803, and a checklist of species. Fauna of Arabia, 20, 497 - 504." type="journal article" year="2004">Greathead (2004)</bibRefCitation>
described two new species of 
<taxonomicName id="EEB7F3E1744FBF5BCF45FAE9FB7FF976" authorityName="Meigen" authorityYear="1820" box="[1137,1230,1724,1748]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Phthiria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCF45FAE9FB7FF976" box="[1137,1230,1724,1748]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Phthiria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, 
<taxonomicName id="EEB7F3E1744FBF5BCFE9FAE9FADDF976" authorityName="Greathead &amp; Evenhuis" authorityYear="2001" box="[1245,1388,1724,1748]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Phthiria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="socotrae">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCFE9FAE9FADDF976" box="[1245,1388,1724,1748]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. socotrae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and 
<taxonomicName id="EEB7F3E1744FBF5BCBA3FAB5FEADF955" authorityName="Greathead" authorityYear="2004" box="[151,284,1760,1784]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Phthiria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="stictica">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCBA3FAB5FEADF955" box="[151,284,1760,1784]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. stictica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, that both have the first antennal flagellomere with a long dorsal process. 
<taxonomicName id="EEB7F3E1744FBF5BCF8AFAB5FACAF955" authorityName="Greathead" authorityYear="2004" box="[1214,1403,1760,1784]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Phthiria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="stictica">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCF8AFAB5FACAF955" box="[1214,1403,1760,1784]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Phthiria stictica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is distinguished from our species and easily from all other species of 
<taxonomicName id="EEB7F3E1744FBF5BC849FB56FC6BF8B9" authorityName="Meigen" authorityYear="1820" box="[893,986,1795,1819]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Phthiria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BC849FB56FC6BF8B9" box="[893,986,1795,1819]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Phthiria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by infuscated spots on the wing and 
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCE42FB56FF49F89C" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. socotrae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is also clearly separated from our species by having an orange dorsal pattern on the mesonotum and two triangular black spots on the prescutellar area.
</paragraph>
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<bibRefCitation id="4D26F593744FBF5BCBF3FB38FEC0F824" author="Zaitzev" box="[199,369,1901,1926]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" refString="Zaitzev, V. F. (2005) New species of flies of the family Bombyliidae (Diptera) from the Palaearctic region. Entomological Review, 85 (6), 702 - 706." type="journal article" year="2005">Zaitzev (2005)</bibRefCitation>
described three new species from 
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including 
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BC8C1FB38FBDFF827" box="[1013,1134,1901,1925]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. merlei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, 
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCFB5FB38FA9EF827" box="[1153,1327,1901,1925]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. maroccana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and 
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCE42FB38FE97F80B" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">
<taxonomicName id="EEB7F3E1744FBF5BCE42FB38FE92F80B" authorityName="Zaitzev" authorityYear="2005" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Phthiria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="lucidipennis">Ph. lucidipennis</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
in which the first two have the first antennal flagellomere with a long dorsal process. 
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BCFC4FBC4FA2AF80B" box="[1264,1435,1937,1961]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Phthiria merlei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is easily distinguished by the dark brown mark on the knob of the halter and the yellow scutellum with a dark brown spot in the center of the apical surface where in 
<taxonomicName id="EEB7F3E1744FBF5BC837FB8FFC1EF850" authority="Gharali &amp; Evenhuis, 2017" authorityName="Gharali &amp; Evenhuis" authorityYear="2017" box="[771,943,2010,2034]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Phthiria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="62" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="vaganoides" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BC837FB8FFC1EF850" box="[771,943,2010,2034]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">Ph. vaganoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="1BC35470744FBF5BC883FB8CFBA0F850" bold="true" box="[951,1041,2009,2034]" pageId="7" pageNumber="62">sp. nov.</emphasis>
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the knob is completely yellow and the scutellum is black. Although the female of 
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<emphasis id="1BC354707440BF54C980FCCDFC9DFF12" box="[692,812,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="63">Ph. merlei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has a yellow frons, the color of its legs are yellow on coxae, femora and tibiae, differing from the blackish brown legs of 
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<emphasis id="1BC354707440BF54C8A5FCE9FB8FFF76" box="[913,1086,188,212]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="63">Ph. vaganoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="1BC354707440BF54CF71FCE9FB2EFF77" bold="true" box="[1093,1183,188,213]" pageId="8" pageNumber="63">sp. nov.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
From 
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<emphasis id="1BC354707440BF54CFDFFCE9FA24FF76" box="[1259,1429,188,212]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="63">Ph. maroccana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, our new species is easily distinguished by the color of hairs on the mesonotum and scutellum that are completely black in males, while in 
<taxonomicName id="EEB7F3E17440BF54CA91FD51FDE0FEBE" authorityName="Gharali &amp; Evenhuis" authorityYear="2017" box="[421,593,260,284]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Phthiria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="63" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="vaganoides">
<emphasis id="1BC354707440BF54CA91FD51FDE0FEBE" box="[421,593,260,284]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="63">Ph. vaganoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
they are completely whitish. The females of 
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<emphasis id="1BC354707440BF54CF72FD51FB5EFEBE" box="[1094,1263,260,284]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="63">Ph. maroccana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
have an almost all dark abdomen but in 
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<emphasis id="1BC354707440BF54CA91FD7DFDE0FEE2" box="[421,593,296,320]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="63">Ph. vaganoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="1BC354707440BF54C96CFD72FD00FEE2" bold="true" box="[600,689,295,320]" pageId="8" pageNumber="63">sp. nov.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
the abdomen is almost all yellow. The halter is also different in the two species. The former species has a brown spot on the halter knob that is absent in the latter. 
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<emphasis id="1BC354707440BF54CE0AFD19FE91FE2A" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="63">Phthiria lucidipennis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is also distinguished from our new species, 
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<emphasis id="1BC354707440BF54C821FD25FC72FE2A" box="[789,963,368,392]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="63">Ph. vaganoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="1BC354707440BF54C8FEFD3AFB94FE2A" bold="true" box="[970,1061,367,392]" pageId="8" pageNumber="63">sp. nov.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
, by the halter knob color and the color of scutellum. In 
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<emphasis id="1BC354707440BF54CAA4FDC1FDF7FE0E" box="[400,582,404,428]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="63">Ph. lucidipennis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
the halter knob has a black spot in both sexes and also females have yellow scutellum with a large triangular black mark. The halter knob is completely yellow in our new species and the color of the scutellum is completely yellow in females.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="290888627440BF54CBF3FDAAFEF7FD52" blockId="8.[151,1437,151,752]" pageId="8" pageNumber="63">
El-Hawagri &amp; Al Dhafer, (2014) described a new species, 
<emphasis id="1BC354707440BF54C855FE55FBACFDBA" box="[865,1053,512,536]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="63">
<taxonomicName id="EEB7F3E17440BF54C855FE55FBA8FDBA" authorityName="El-Hawagry &amp; Al Dhafer" authorityYear="2014" box="[865,1049,512,536]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Phthiria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="63" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sharafi">Phthiria sharafi</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
from 
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. The males of 
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<emphasis id="1BC354707440BF54CBA3FE71FEF7FD9E" box="[151,326,548,572]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="63">Ph. vaganoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="00F0E90B7440BF54CA64FE71FE1CFD9F" box="[336,429,548,573]" pageId="8" pageNumber="63" rank="species">
<emphasis id="1BC354707440BF54CA64FE71FE1CFD9F" bold="true" box="[336,429,548,573]" pageId="8" pageNumber="63">sp. nov.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
are different from those of 
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<emphasis id="1BC354707440BF54C9C0FE71FCC2FD9E" box="[756,883,548,572]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="63">Ph. sharafi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
at least in the color of hairs on frons (white in Iranian species and black in Egyptian). The females of the two species are clearly different in two characters: dark pattern on frons and the shape of spermathecal process. The frons has a wide black stripe in 
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<emphasis id="1BC354707440BF54CF9DFE39FA94FD26" box="[1193,1317,620,644]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="63">Ph. sharafi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
extending from the ocellar tubercle to the base of the antenna, but the frons in 
<taxonomicName id="EEB7F3E17440BF54C8A6FEC5FB8EFD0A" authority="Gharali &amp; Evenhuis, 2017" authorityName="Gharali &amp; Evenhuis" authorityYear="2017" box="[914,1087,656,680]" class="Insecta" family="Bombyliidae" genus="Phthiria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="63" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="vaganoides" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="1BC354707440BF54C8A6FEC5FB8EFD0A" box="[914,1087,656,680]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="63">Ph. vaganoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="1BC354707440BF54CF72FEDAFB2EFD0A" bold="true" box="[1094,1183,655,680]" pageId="8" pageNumber="63">sp. nov.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
is almost yellow (
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d). The spermathecal process is recurved in 
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<emphasis id="1BC354707440BF54C9AAFEE1FCADFD6E" box="[670,796,692,716]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="63">Ph. sharafi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
while in 
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<emphasis id="1BC354707440BF54C8BEFEE1FB89FD6E" box="[906,1080,692,716]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="63">Ph. vaganoides</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="1BC354707440BF54CF75FEE1FB2CFD6F" bold="true" box="[1089,1181,692,717]" pageId="8" pageNumber="63">sp. nov.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
it is nearly straight or slightly curved.
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