Hemyda vittata ( Meigen, 1824 )

Wang, Qiang, Zhang, Chuntian & Wang, Xinhua, 2015, Review of the Hemyda Robineau-Desvoidy of China (Diptera: Tachinidae), Zootaxa 4040 (2), pp. 129-148 : 142-143

Hemyda vittata ( Meigen, 1824)

( Figs. 49−60 , 77−80 )

Phania vittata Meigen, 1824: 219 . Holotype ♂ (MNHN). Type locality: South France.

References. Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 432; Ziegler & Shima 1996: 441; Zhang & Fu 2011: 295.

Diagnosis. Male ( Figs. 49−53 , 77−80 ) and female ( Figs. 54−60 ). Body length: 8.0−10.0 mm. Eye kidney-shaped, hind margin slightly indented; vertex 0.28−0.32 of head width in male and 0.35−0.38 in female; posterior half of fronto-orbital plate covered with shiny golden-yellow pruinosity in male and silver pruinosity in female; parafacial covered with silver-white pruinosity; ocellar triangle occupying posterior 1/2−3/5 of frontal vitta; vibrissa 0.50−0.60 times as long as eye height; inner vertical seta strong, 0.45−0.50 times as long as eye height; arista thickened on approximately basal 2/5, second aristomere about two times as long as wide; palpus black or dark brown, thickened and lighter apically; 2 presutural and 2 postsutural acrostichal setae; legs black or dark brown; mid tibia with 1 ventral seta; syntergite 1+2 and tergite 3 yellow with a longitudinal black median vitta, most of tergite 4 and the whole of tergite 5 black; syntergite 1+2 with 2−4 lateral marginal setae, tergite 3 with 2 median marginal setae. Male terminalia ( Figs. 77−80 ): Sternite 5 with posteromedian cleft U-shaped, without a membranous area between anterior margin and cleft, with fine setulae; epandrium broad in caudal view, with fine setulae; cerci slender, with fine short setulae on inner lateral margin, dorsally broadly separated except for fused apex; surstylus long and greatly expanded posteriorly in lateral view, with fine, short setulae, pointed apically; hypandrium broad, hypandrial arm long and sclerotized; pregonite and postgonite fused, long and broad, with several short fine setulae on basal 1/3 of lateral margin, elongate anteriorly; ejaculatory apodeme short. Female terminalia ( Figs. 59−60 ): Apex of the finger-like protrusion on tergite 6 weakly broadened.

Material examined: CHINA: Inner Mongolia: 1 ♀, Xiaoyangqi, Jiagedaqi, 450−480 m, 3.viii.2007, leg. J. Hao ( SYNU). Liaoning: 2 ♂♂, Tanggou, Benxi, 758 m, 3.vii.1993, leg. L. Liu ( SYNU); 1 ♂, Anshan, 660−912 m, 22−25.vi.2007, leg. X.D. Sun ( SYNU). Shanxi: 3 ♂♂, Dahe, Yicheng, 1200−1600 m, 17−20.vii.2012, leg. Q. Wang (NKU); 1 ♂, Manghe, Yangcheng, 6.vi.1991, leg. M.F. Wang ( SYNU). GERMANY: 1 ♂, Rheinland-Pfalz, Hassloch, 12.vii.1977, leg. H.-P. Tschorsnig ( SMNS); 1 ♂, Kaiserstuhl, Staffelberg, 24.viii.1976, leg. B. Herting ( SMNS).

Distribution. China (Liaoning, Shanxi*, Inner Mongolia *), Germany, Sweden, Transcaucasia, Siberia, Japan. *Newly recorded.

Figures

FIGURES 49 − 53. Hemyda vittata (Meigen), ♂ (Shanxi, Yicheng, Dahe, 1200 − 1600 m, 17 − 20. vii. 2012, Q. Wang). 49. Body in dorsal view. 50. Body in lateral view. 51. Head in anterior view. 52. Head in lateral view. 53. Wing in dorsal view.

FIGURES 54 − 60. Hemyda vittata (Meigen), ♀ (Inner Mongolia, Jiagedaqi, Xiaoyangqi, 450 − 480 m, 3. viii. 2007, J. Hao). 54. Body in dorsal view. 55. Body in lateral view. 56. Head in anterior view. 57. Head in lateral view. 58. Wing in dorsal view. 59. Terminalia in ventral view. 60. Terminalia in lateral view.

FIGURES 77 − 80. Male terminalia of Hemyda vittata (Meigen) (Shanxi, Yicheng, Dahe, 1200 − 1600 m, 17 − 20. vii. 2012, Q. Wang). 77. Epandrium, cerci and surstyli in caudal view. 78. Epandrium, cerci and surstyli in lateral view. 79. Sternite 5 in ventral view. 80. Aedeagal apodeme, ejaculatory apodeme, hypandrium, pregonite, postgonite, basiphallus and distiphallus in lateral view. Scale bars = 0. 25 mm.