Macquartia Robineau-Desvoidy 1830

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 Robineau-Desvoidy 1830

> Macquartia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 204. Type species: Macquartia rubripes Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (by designation of Townsend, 1916) [= Tachina dispar Fallén, 1820]. References: Mesnil (1972): 1093; Crosskey (1976): 195; Herting (1984): 112; Herting and Dely-Draskovits (1993): 312; Tschorsnig and Herting (1994): 70; Tschorsnig and Richter (1998): 729, 757, 790; Chao et al. (1998): 2043; O’Hara and Wood (2004): 268; Cerretti (2006): 347; O’ Hara et al. (2009): 155; O’Hara and Cerretti (2016): 210; Zhang et al. (2016): 587; O’Hara et al. (2020): 703; Li et al. (2022): 4. Synonyms: see O’Hara et al. (2020): 703-704.

Maquartia . Incorrect subsequent spelling of Macquartia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (Rondani (1862: 162)).

Minella Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 209. Type species: Minella nitida Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (= Tachina tenebricosa Meigen, 1824), by monotypy [France].

Ptylops Rondani, 1859: 85. Type species: Macquartia celebs Rondani, 1859 (= Tachina praefica Meigen, 1824), by monotypy [Italy].

Gymnopsis Rondani, 1859: 90 (junior homonym of Gymnopsis Rafinesque, 1815). Type species: Tachina chalconota Meigen, 1824, by monotypy.

Bebricia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863: 1112. Type species: Macquartia microcera Robineau- Desvoidy, 1830 (= Tachina praefica Meigen, 1824), by original designation [France].

Javetia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863: 1115. Type species: Macquartia germanica Robineau- Desvoidy, 1830 (= Tachina chalconota Meigen, 1824), by subsequent designation of Townsend (1916: 7) [Germany].

Pherecida Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863: 1118. Type species: Tachina egens Meigen, 1824 (= Tachina grisea Fallén, 1810), by original designation [Europe].

Hesione Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863: 199 (junior homonym of Hesione Rafinesque, 1815). Type species: Hesione microcera Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 (= Tachina tessellum Meigen, 1824), by original designation [France].

Olbya Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863: 170. Type species: Olbya brunisquamis Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 (= Tachina tessellum Meigen, 1824), by monotypy [France].

Arraltia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863: 72. Type species: Arraltia atra Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 (= Tachina praefica Meigen, 1824), by monotypy [France].

Rondanimyia Townsend, 1908: 67 (nomen novum for Gymnopsis Rondani, 1859).

Alaskophyto Townsend, 1915: 285. Type species: Muscopteryx obscura Coquillett, 1902, by original designation [United States].

Proteremoplax Enderlein, 1936: 240. Type species: Tachina chalconota Meigen, 1824, by subsequent designation of Herting (1984: 113).

Myioclonia Reinhard, 1945: 28. Type species: Myioclonia erythrocera Reinhard, 1945, by original designation [United States].

Hesionella Mesnil, 1972: 1093 (as subgenus of Macquartia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830; junior homonym of Hesionella Hartman, 1939). Type species: Tachina tessellum Meigen, 1824, by original designation [Europe].

Albiniola Mesnil, 1972: 1094 (as subgenus of Macquartia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830). Type species: Macquartia (Albiniola) nudigena Mesnil, 1972, by original designation [France].

Macquartia Macquartia rubripes Robineau-Desvoidy 1830

Description

Body length more than 4.0 mm. Head with eye densely covered with long hairs. Frons of male at most one-fourth eye width in dorsal view, parafacial bare or hairy; proclinate orbital setae absent in male or with two proclinate orbital setae in female. Ocellar setae developed, proclinate. Lower margin of face usually not visible in profile. Facial ridge with setae on lower half or less. Hairs or setulae on posteroventral half of head all black, without pale hairs. Pedicel and basal half of postpedicel dark brown or reddish-yellow, postpedicel less than two times as long as pedicel. Arista thickened on basal one-fourth or less, first aristomere distinctly shorter, arista bare or short pubescent, the longest hairs longer than basal diameter of arista or plumose. Palpus dark brown or at least reddish-yellow at apex. Thorax with scutum before suture without dark stripes, 2-3 presutural and 3-4 postsutural dorsocentral setae and 2 or 3 postsutural intra-alar setae. Scutellum usually black, at most reddish-yellow at apical half, with three or more pairs of marginal setae, with strongly crossed apical scutellar setae, but weaker than subapical scutellar setae, lateral scutellar setae absent or present. Prosternum and proepisternum bare. Postpronotal lobe with 2 or 3 setae, arranged in a straight line. Katepisternum with 2 or 3 setae, anepimeral seta well-developed, anatergite almost always with a group of minute hairs or setulae below lower calypter. Basicosta dark brown or reddish-yellow. Second costal section of wing with fine hairs ventrally. Only base of vein R4+5 with hairs. Wing cell r4+5 open or with a very short petiole, bend of vein M without continuation or with a very short stub. Dorsal surface of lower calypter bare, divergent from scutellum or not divergent from scutellum. Legs usually black, sometimes reddish-yellow. Inner anterior surface of fore coxa bare or predominantly bare. Mid-tibia with 1 or 2-5 anterodorsal setae, hind tibia with 2 or 3 pre-apical dorsal setae. Pre-apical posteroventral seta on hind tibia distinctly shorter than pre-apical anteroventral seta. Abdomen black, syntergite 1+2 medially excavated to its hind margin or not, without or with 2 median marginal setae, 3rd tergite with 2 or a row of median marginal and 2 (weak) median discal setae in male and absent in female and 1-3 pairs of lateral discal setae, 4th tergite with a row of marginal, 2 to a row of discal setae in male and 2 setae in female or 3rd and 4th tergites without median discal setae in both sexes. 5th tergite with a row of or two rows of median discal and a row of marginal setae. Male terminalia very long, middle part of cerci narrowed and pointed, surstyli more or less narrowed.

Diagnosis

Eye densely covered with long hairs, ocellar setae developed, proclinate, hairs or setulae on posteroventral half of head all black, without pale hairs. Antenna with postpedicel at most two times as long as pedicel, arista thickened on basal one-fourth or less. Body black, prosternum bare, scutellum with strong crossed apical setae, anepimeral seta well-developed, anatergite almost always with a group of minute hairs or setulae below lower calypter. Second costal section of wing with fine hairs ventrally. Pre-apical posteroventral seta on hind tibia distinctly shorter than pre-apical anteroventral seta.