Ceroptera picta Becker, 1913

Papp, LÁsZLÓ, 2014, A Review Of The Old World Species Of Ceroptera Macquart, 1835 (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae), Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 60 (2), pp. 109-155 : 123-124

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scientific name	Ceroptera picta Becker, 1913
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Ceroptera picta Becker, 1913 View in CoL

(Figs 19, 22–23, 27–28)

Limosina picta Becker View in CoL in Becker & Stein, 1913: 94. Holotype female (ZISP): Morocco, Tanger.

DudA (1918: 97) synonymised it with C. rufitarsis View in CoL , although he did study theholotypeinSt. Petersburg. AlsoImisidentifieditformerly (seebelow).

Materialstudied ( HNHM): 7 males (onemale’sabdomenwithgenitaliaareprepared andkeptinpolyethylenemicrovialwithglycerol) 5 females: MOROCCO, MaarmoraFor- est, onScarabaeussacer – 7 April 2004, leg. J. Niogret (morespecimensinthecollector’scol- lection). 2 males (gen. prep.): MOROCCO: Mina Hassan Tani (Kenitra) 25 m, 1 June 1981, EdwardS. Ross. Cal. Acad. Sci. Coll. – “CeropterarufitarsisMEIG., det. L. Papp 1988 ” .

It is species distinct from C. rufitarsis (see key below). Male sternite 5 (Fig. 19) very large, asymmetrical, right edge of synsternite (i.e. sternite 6 portion) fusedtorightsidesclerites. Malegenitalialargeandalsoanalopening large (Fig. 22). Epandriumslightlyasymmetrical, ventrallymuchlongerthan dorsally. Posteriorlobeofsurstylus (Fig. 28) broader. Subepandrialsclerite

(Fig. 22) islarge. Basiphallus (Fig. 23) withepiphallus, butitisnotrecurved. Postgonite (Fig. 27) similar to that of C. rufitarsis but less curved.