Pales latifrons Kugler, 1980

Cerretti, Pierfilippo, 2005, Revision of the West Palaearctic species of the genus Pales Robineau­Desvoidy (Diptera: Tachinidae), Zootaxa 885, pp. 1-36 : 17

Pales latifrons Kugler, 1980 ( Fig. 26 , 27 )

Pales latifrons Kugler, 1980: 38 . Type locality: Shefech Zohar, Israel.

Material examined. ISRAEL [including disputed territories] — West Bank, Metzoke Dragot near Mizpe Shalem, Dead Sea, 31.35 N 35.23 E, 10 m a.s.l., 7.III.1995, C. Lange & J. Ziegler leg., 8 ɗɗ, 13 ΨΨ ( JZCB). Mizpe Ramon Observatory, 17.III.1995, B. Merz leg., 1 Ψ ( SMNS).

Diagnosis. Thorax (except scutellum) and abdomen black in ground colour with blue reflections, covered with whitish­grey microtrichosity ( Fig. 27 ); posterior half or more of the scutellum reddish or yellow. Legs entirely black or dark brown. Abdominal tergites 3 and 4 with 0–3 short, fine median discal setulae. ɗ: postpedicel about 4.5 times as long as the pedicel; height of facial ridge 1.2–1.4 times as long as the frons in lateral view; lower facial margin slightly visible in lateral view; frons 0.86–1.04 times as wide as an eye in dorsal view; fore claws longer than tarsomere 5; cerci broad in posterior view, not convex basally in lateral view. Female differs from male as follows: frons wider, 1.00–1.15 times as wide as an eye in dorsal view. Postpedicel about 3.5 times as long as the pedicel. Fore a complete description see the original of Kugler (1980).

Distribution. Israel (cf. Herting 1984; Herting & Dely­Draskovits 1993).

Hosts. Unknown.

Figures

FIGURES 20 – 26. Male terminalia, scale bar 0.5 mm. 20 – 23. Pales pavida (Meigen). 20. (Italy, Latium), cerci and surstyli in posterior view. 21. Cerci and right surstylus in right lateral view (Germany, Baden­Württemberg). 22. (Germany, Baden­Württemberg), cerci and surstyli in posterior view. 23. (Italy, Latium), epandrial complex in lateral view. 24 – 25. Pales processioneae (Ratzeburg) (Germany, Baden­Württemberg). 24. Cerci and surstyli in posterior view. 25. Epandrial complex in right lateral view. 26. Pales latifrons Kugler (Israel), cerci and surstyli in posterior view.

FIGURES 27 – 30. Abdomen of Pales spp. in dorsal view. 27. Pales latifrons Kugler Ψ (Israel). 28. Pales murina Mesnil ♂ (Iran). 29. Pales cyanea (Macquart) ♂ (Spain, Canary Isalands). 30. Pales marae sp. nov. paratype ♂ (Italy, Sardinia, Cagliari prov.).