Xerophilomyia Rohdendorf, 1925
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https://doi.org/ 10.15407/zoo2020.03.183 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6419250 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BFAB54-B001-D767-A09D-95BCFB127040 |
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Xerophilomyia Rohdendorf, 1925 |
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Genus Xerophilomyia Rohdendorf, 1925 View in CoL
Xerophilomyia Rohdendorf, 1925: 64 View in CoL (as subgenus of Apodacra Macquart, 1854 View in CoL ). Type species: Apodacra leucocera Rohdendorf, 1925 View in CoL , by designation of Townsend, 1938: 152.
Xerophilomyia: Rohdendorf, 1930: 12 View in CoL , as a subgenus of Apodacra Macquart, 1854 View in CoL (revision); Rohdendorf & Verves, 1980: 491 (key to species); Verves, 1986: 86 (catalog); 1990: 540 (key to East Palaearctic species); Verves et al., 2015: 273 (review).
Diagnisis. Medium sized (5.5–10.0 mm) bright colored flies. Frons and face as wide as one eye; vibrissal angles distinctly raised over oral margin, and lunula narrowed downwards; head in profile angular; hind border of head distinctly shortened; proclinate orb numerous, as a group of irregular placed erect setae; Postpedicel 2.0–2.5× as long as pedicel. {: f 2 and t 2 with ctenidium consisting of long and flattened setae.
Twenty species occur in the south of the Palaearctic and Afrotropical Regions.
Key to species
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2. f 2 with ctenidium composed of flattened dorsal setae; dorsal and ventral ctenidiums of t 2 placed in apical 0.4–0.5; mid 1 st tarsomere widened ( fig. 20, e). Middle spot of 3 rd abdominal tergite separated from lateral ones by broad stripes of dusting; pattern of abdomen black ( fig. 20, g). Mid tarsus partly or entirely orange yellow. 4.5–8.0 mm............................................................................. X. nigropicta Rohdendorf, 1934 View in CoL
— f 2 without ctenidium; dorsal ctenidium of t 2 placed in apical 0.2–0.3 only; mid 1 st tarsomere not widened. Middle spot of 3 rd tergite more or less united with lateral stripes; lateral stripes of abdomen usually reddish ( fig. 22 View Figs 22–23 , g). …………………...................................................................................................................... 3
3. Mid tarsus entirely orange yellow; parafrontal setose in posterior half only ( fig. 22 View Figs 22–23 , b–d). Fore 4 th tarsomere without specialised setae; t 2 with flattened setae in distal 0.3–0.5 ( fig. 22 View Figs 22–23 , e). 6.5–9.5 mm. ……..…….......................................................................................................... X. plumipes ( Villeneuve, 1933)
— Mid tarsus distinctly blackish; parafrontalia setose almost to lunula, setosity gradually fading out and ending just before reaching the level of the anteriormost frontal seta. 4 th tarsomere of fore tarsus with a long, straight, stronger p and an almost equally long but more curved, slender a (see fig. 1 View Figs 1–2 in Pape, 1988); t 2 with flattened setae along most of its length. 5.0–8.0 mm............................. X. cyprica (Rondani, 1859) View in CoL
4. Mid tarsus distinctly blackish. .......................................................................................................................... 5
— Mid tarsus partly or entirely orange yellow. .....................................................................................................7
5. 3 rd abdominal tergite with entire black hind stripe............................................. X. cyprica (Rondani, 1859) View in CoL
— 3 rd abdominal tergite with rounded middle spot and paired lateral stripes in hind 0.4. ............................6
6. orb reach to level of fore fr; frontal vitta golden pollinose in hind part only ( figs 19 View Fig , b–d); abdomen yellowish grey pollinose, with lateral yellow areas ( figs 19 View Fig , a, e, f). 6.0 mm ..................... X. nigritarsus View in CoL sp. n.
— orb reach to mid length of frons; frontal vitta entirely silver pollinose; abdomen light grey pollinose, without lateral yellow areas. 5.7 mm. ......................................... X. famagustica Verves et Khrokalo View in CoL , sp. n.
7. Middle spot of 3 rd abdominal tergite separated from lateral stripes by broad pollinose areas ( fig. 21, b). ............................................................................................................................ X. nigropicta Rohdendorf, 1934 View in CoL
— 3 rd abdominal tergite with entire black or laterally yellowish-red hind stripe ( figs 23 View Figs 22–23 , a, b, f)..................... .............................................................................................................................. X. plumipes ( Villeneuve, 1933)
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Xerophilomyia Rohdendorf, 1925
Verves, Yu. G. 2020 |
Xerophilomyia:
Verves, Yu. & Radchenko, V. & Khrokalo, L. 2015: 273 |
Verves, Yu. G. 1986: 86 |
Rohdendorf, B. B. & Verves, Yu. G. 1980: 491 |
Rohdendorf, B. B. 1930: 12 |
Xerophilomyia
Townsend, C. H. T. 1938: 152 |
Rohdendorf, B. B. 1925: 64 |