Physiphora Fallén

Morgulis, E. & Freidberg, A., 2014, The Ulidiini (Diptera: Tephritoidea: Ulidiidae) of Israel, with a key to the world species of Ulidia and description of five new species, Zootaxa 3780 (2), pp. 201-247 : 207-208

Physiphora Fallén

Physiphora Fallén, 1810: 11 ; Type species Chrysomyza splendida Fallén, 1817 (= Musca alceae Preyssler, 1791 ), by subsequent monotypy in Fallén, 1817: 3.

Redescription. Head ( Figs. 7, 8 , 14 ): Structure: usually higher than long or as long as high, at most slightly longer than high. Frons smooth or rarely pitted, posteriorly sometimes with 2 pairs of low longitudinal swellings. Antennal groove shallow. Color and vestiture: mostly brown to black, sometimes partially yellow to orange. Frons usually with 1–3 lateral spots of whitish microtrichia, very rarely entirely microtrichose. Face dorsally (at least between antennae) and antennal groove gray microtrichose. Facial ridge and parafacial sometimes with longitudinal stripes of white microtrichia; gena rarely with microtrichose areas. Palpus gray microtrichose. Setae and setulae: vertical setae present. Frontal vitta rarely setulose.

Thorax: Color and vestiture: mostly black, with metallic greenish, copper, golden, blue or purple sheen. Scutum and anepisternum densely shagreened. Setae and setulae: 1 intra-alar, 1 postalar and 2 pairs of scutellar setae present. Dorsocentral and acrostichal setae fine, inconspicuous or absent. Postpronotal lobe setulose; proepisternum with one long and few shorter setulae. Anterior part of scutum and anepisternum setulose, remaining parts of scutum usually bare, sometimes with dorsocentral and acrostichal row of fine and short, often yellowish, setulae (in P. leucotricha Kameneva and Korneyev 2010 , from UAE, scutum with conspicuous whitish setulae).

Wing ( Fig. 29 ): Entirely hyaline with usually yellow, rarely brown veins. Cell bcu with long posteroapical lobe; vein Cu2 ratio more than 2.5.

Abdomen: Tergite 2 in 6 species, including P. al c ea e (Preyssler) and P. smaragdina (Loew) , with pair of round, matt, dimple-like spots lacking metallic sheen and having hexagonal cellular structure laterally.

Male terminalia ( Figs. 46, 47 , 69, 70 ): Phallus thick and usually bare, with single membranous caecum.

Female terminalia ( Figs. 86, 87 ): Aculeus about 3 times as long as oviscape and 6.5–12.0 times as long as wide, with elongate oval cercal unit.

Distribution. Cosmopolitan.

Figures

FIGURES 7 – 13. Head, anterior view. 7. Physiphora alceae; 8. P. smaragdina; 9. Timia anomala; 10. T. fallax n. sp.; 11. T. jakowlewi; 12. T. ritae n. sp.; 13. T. xanthaspis.

FIGURES 14 – 22. Head, lateral view. 14. Physiphora alceae; 15. Timia anomala; 16. T. sp. cf. berlandi; 17. T. fallax n. sp.; 18. T. ritae n. sp.; 19. T. xanthaspis; 20. Ulidia albidipennis; 21. U. sp. cf. apicalis. 22. U. aurata n. sp.

FIGURES 29 – 38. Wing. 29. Physiphora alceae; 30. Timia anomala; 31. T. sp. cf. berlandi; 32. T. ritae n. sp.; 33. Ulidia albidipennis; 34. U. aurata n. sp.; 35. U. hirsuta n. sp.; 36. U. nigripennis; 37. U. omani; 38. U. wasimi n. sp.

FIGURES 46 – 62. Epandrium, posterior view. 46. Physiphora alceae; 47. P. smaragdina; 48. Timia anomala; 49. T. sp. cf. berlandi; 50. T. fallax n. sp.; 51. T. jakowlewi; 52. T. libani; 53. T. ritae n. sp.; 54. T. xanthaspis; 55. Ulidia albidipennis; 56. U. aurata n. sp.; 57. U. hirsuta n. sp.; 58. U. nigripennis; 59. U. omani; 60. U. ruficeps; 61. U. wadicola; 62. U. wasimi n. sp.

FIGURES 69 – 77. Glans. 69. Physiphora alceae; 70. P. smaragdina; 71. Timia anomala; 72. T. sp. cf. berlandi; 73. T. fallax n. sp.; 74. T. jakowlewi; 75. T. libani; 76. T. ritae n. sp.; 77. T. xanthaspis.

FIGURES 86 – 92. Cercal unit, ventral view. 86. Physiphora alceae; 87. P. smaragdina; 88. Timia fallax n. sp.; 89. T. jakowlewi; 90. T. libani; 91. T. xanthaspis; 92. Ulidia albidipennis.