Wohlfahrtiodes mongolicus Chao & Zhang, 1988a : 273

Zhang, Dong, Zhang, Ming, Li, Zijuan & Pape, Thomas, 2015, The Sarcophagidae (Insecta: Diptera) described by Chien-ming Chao and Xue-zhong Zhang, Zootaxa 3946 (4), pp. 451-509 : 492-494

Wohlfahrtiodes mongolicus Chao & Zhang, 1988a: 273 . China, Neimenggu, Qog B, Mt. Langshan.

Originally included specimens: Described from twenty males.

Name-bearing type: Holotype ♂: Neimenggu, Qog B/ Mt. Langshan/ Chinese Academy of Sciences [white label in Chinese, in black print except “Qog B/ Mt. Langshan” in handwritten]// 1978. VI.29 / Collected by C.M. Chao [“1978. VI.29 ” handwritten in black ink, remaining in black print, in Chinese]// HOLOTYPE [red label, in black print]// IOZ(E)216001 [blue label, in black print]// ♂ [white label, in black print]// Wohlfahrtiodes / mongolicus / Zhao & Zhang [white label, in black print]// Wohlfahrtiodes / mongolicus Chao et Zhang / Identified by C.M. Chao [“Identified by C.M. Chao” in black print, in Chinese, remaining handwritten in black ink].

Holotype in good condition except a crack on presutural area of scutum, left mid leg missing and terminalia extracted and fully visible.

Current identity: Asiosarcophila kaszabi Rohdendorf & Verves, 1978 , as treated by Verves (1982) and here proposed as a senior synonym of Wohlfahrtiodes mongolicus Chao & Zhang, 1988 , syn. n.

Additional type specimens: Wohlfahrtiodes mongolicus Chao & Zhang : Paratypes 19♂♂: China: Neimenggu, Erenhot, Honggeer, 10–12.VII.1972, Coll. by C.M. Chao ( NZMC). Asiosarcophila kaszabi Rohdendorf & Verves : Paratype 1♂: Mongolia: G. [Gornyj]-Altai, Gurvan-Erenej-Nuru, Ikhesnurskaja kotlovina [Ikhesnur basin], 15−19.VIII.1970, Coll. by A. Ponomarenko & Yu. Popov ( ZMUC).

Remarks: Rohdendorf & Verves (1978) proposed the genus Asiosarcophila to accommodate a single species with a mixture of character states from the genera Sarcophila , Wohlfahrtia and Wohlfahrtiodes . This was probably overlooked by Chao & Zhang (1988a), as their only comparative remark was that their new species is “Closely allied to W. marzinowskyi Rohd [= Wohlfahrtiodes marzinowskyi Rohdendorf ]”. The genus Asiosarcophila is herewith reported for the first time from China.

Redescription of Male: Body length 9.0– 9.5 mm ( Fig. 24 A). Eye bare, red. Fronto-orbital plate, parafacial and postocular strip black with silvery pollinosity; parafacial with three or four fine bristles in upper part, about as broad as fronto-orbital plate. Frontal vitta black, 1.2× as broad as fronto-orbital plate at the narrowest point; frons at vertex about 0.35× head width ( Fig. 24 C); frontal row of 7 or 8 bristles; outer vertical bristle not differentiated from postocular bristles. Ocellar bristles directed antero-laterally. Gena ground color black, with sparse and short black bristles and silvery gray pollinosity, height 0.29–0.40× eye height in lateral view ( Fig. 24 E). Antenna brown, not reaching the level of vibrissal insertion, first flagellomere about 2.2× as long as pedicel ( Fig. 24 C, D); arista with short plumose and swollen in basal 1/3 ( Fig. 24 E), postocular bristles in four rows; vibrissa developed. Palpus yellowish brown, slightly expanded in distal part.

Thorax ground color black; scutum pollinosity gray with two black dorsal vittae. Chaetotaxy: acrostichals 1(2)+1, dorsocentrals 3+3(2), intra-alars 0+3, supra-alars 2, postalars 2, postpronotals 3, notopleurals 2, scutellum with 1 apical, 1 subapical, 1 basal and 1 discal bristles. Pleuron with meropleurals 6 or 7, katepisternal bristles 2: 1, prosternum, metasternum and proepisternum all bare, postalar wall with two fine bristles.

Wing hyaline ( Fig. 24 A); subcostal sclerite and basicosta yellow, bare; tegula yellow; costal spine differentiated; vein R1 bare, one ventral bristle at node of R2+3-R4+5, vein R4+5 setose dorsally from junction of R2+3 halfway to crossvein r-m; cell r4+5 broadly open; lower calypter yellowish white.

Legs black, claw and pulvillus large. Fore femur with one row of dorsal bristles (about 8), one row of posteroventral bristles (about 13) and one row of posterodorsal bristles (about 10), fore tibia with one sub-median ventral bristle and one row of anterodorsal bristles (about 6); mid femur with one row of anterior bristles (about 5) and one row of ventral bristles (about 5), two apical posterodorsal bristles, distal part with short ventral comb-like posteroventral bristles, mid tibia with three anterodorsal, two posterior and two posterodorsal bristles; hind femur with one row of anterodorsal bristles, one row of anteroventral bristles (about 7) and one row of posteroventral bristles (about 4), hind tibia with one row of anterodorsal bristles (7–9), one sub-median anteroventral and three posterodorsal bristles.

Abdomen long oval with silvery gray pollinosity, tergites with triangular black spots; tergite 3 with one pair of median marginal bristles, tergites 4–6 and syntergosternite 7+8 with complete row of marginal bristles, epandrium black ( Fig. 24 F). Terminalia: cercus small with basal part broad, distal half narrow with round apex; surstylus significant broad, posterior margin with round tip, phallus straight and with an anterior extension in middle part ( Fig. 24 B).

Figures

FIGURE 24. Wohlfahrtiodes mongolicus Chao & Zhang, 1988 [= Asiosarcophila kaszabi Rohdendorf & Verves, 1978], male, holotype. A. Body, lateral view. B. Terminalia, lateral view. C. Head, anterior view. D. Head, anterolateral view. E. Head, lateral view. F. Abdomen, dorsal view. G. Labels. Scales: A = 3.00 mm, B = 0.50 mm, C – E = 1.00 mm, F = 2.00 mm.