Macquartia viridana Robineau-Desvoidy 1863

Zhang, Baihui, Li, Henan, Li, Junjian, Zhang, Dong & Zhang, Chuntian, 2023, Taxonomic study of the genus Macquartia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Tachinidae) from China, Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 106273-106273 : 106273

Macquartia viridana Robineau-Desvoidy 1863

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Cui Le; individualCount: 3; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: C354605E-91B6-5474-8DA3-C82CA7E251AC; Taxon : scientificName: Macquartia viridana; Location : country: China; stateProvince: Liaoning; locality: Tanggou , Benxi ; verbatimElevation: 350-450 m; Identification : identifiedBy: Zhang Chun-Tian ; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : samplingProtocol: sweeping; eventDate: 18/07/2009; Record Level: collectionCode: Insects Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Li Bing; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 5A6917D2-7933-54C4-998E-B5196641CF19; Taxon : scientificName: Macquartia viridana; Location : country: China; stateProvince: Liaoning; locality: Huangdaigou , Qingyuan ; verbatimElevation: 600-800 m; Identification : identifiedBy: Zhang Chun-Tian ; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : samplingProtocol: sweeping; eventDate: 26-31/05/2015; Record Level: collectionCode: Insects Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Xue Wan-Qi, Zhou Yuan-Ye; individualCount: 2; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 87A059C6-9CB1-5802-A20C-BB4A36D784B6; Taxon : scientificName: Macquartia viridana; Location : country: China; stateProvince: Liaoning; locality: Mt. Qipan , Shenyang ; verbatimElevation: 230-370 m; Identification : identifiedBy: Zhang Chun-Tian ; dateIdentified: 2022; Event : samplingProtocol: sweeping; eventDate: 29/04/2008, 07/05/2009; Record Level: collectionCode: Insects

Diagnosis

Frons width at least 1/4 of eye width, frontal vitta about twice as wide as parafrontalia (Fig. 15). Parafacial bare, at most hairy on upper half. Palpi reddish-yellow. Pedicel and tibiae at least reddish-yellow. Femora at least reddish-yellow on ventral apex. Two katepisternal setae. Three postsutural dorsocentral setae. Pre-alar seta about as long as hind supra-alar seta in famale. Mid-tibia with 2-5 anterodorsal setae. Abdomen covered with dense greyish pruinosity and regular gleaming marking, mid-dorsal excavation of syntergite 1+2 not extending to its posterior margin, 3rd tergite with 2-4 marginal setae. Male terminalia (Fig. 16). Base of sternite 5 slightly prominent, the depth of V-shaped median cleft of sternite 5 about 1/2 of the sternite, posterior lobe bluntly rounded apically. Pregonite short and bluntly rounded at apex, postgonite distinctly sclerotised, thin and long, distiphallus tubiform, sclerotised at basal half and membranous on apical half with spinules on surface. In caudal view, cerci narrowed and pointed apically, surstylus thick and slightly bent inwards, slightly blunt at apex. In lateral view, cerci slightly slender and short, apex slightly bent backwards, surstylus thick and slightly blunted at apex.

Distribution

Oriental: China (Zhejiang). Palaearctic: China (Liaoning, Inner Mongolia), Europe (British Isles, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Italy, Serbia, Spain, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland), Russia (S. Far East).

Hosts

Coleoptera , Chrysomelidae : Timarcha sp. ( Tschorsnig 2017: 266).