Suffomyia dancei Munari, 2008

Munari, Lorenzo, 2016, The Canacidae of the Arabian Peninsula (Diptera: Brachycera: Carnoidea), Zootaxa 4092 (4), pp. 489-517 : 510

Suffomyia dancei Munari, 2008

(figs. 44─46)

Suffomyia dancei Munari, 2008b: 42 [ Oman. Muscat, Haramel; HT ♂, NMWC].

Distribution. Afrotropical: Oman.

Remarks. This species is quite similar externally to Suffomyia scutellaris Freidberg, 1995 , but it can be easily distinguished from it on the basis of the features of the male and female postabdomen. It differs from the closely related S. scutellaris mainly by the following characters of the external terminalia: male—surstylus distinctly subrectangular in lateral view (fig. 45), with abruptly truncated apex (in Freidberg’s species the surstylus is markedly subtriangular in lateral view, with rather tapered apex (fig. 48)), roughly triangular and shortened in posterior view (fig. 44) (noticeably rectangular and elongated in S. scutellaris (fig. 47)); cercus sclerotized, short, bowl-shaped, with distinctly concave mesal margin (in Freidberg’s species the cercus is slightly diaphanous, simple, elongated, narrow, with mesal margin membranous, curved but never concave); female (fig. 46)—tergite 6 slightly divided proximally; tergite 7 with a pair of separated sclerites, each bearing a distinctive, very long, strongly sclerotized, proximal process oriented towards tergite 6. The female postabdomen of S. scutellaris (fig. 49) has the 6th tergite undivided medially, and the 7th tergite is simple, without elongated processes. These two species of west Palaearctic Suffomyia occur sympatrically and syntopically, at least in the eastern territories of the Arabian Peninsula.