Xeromyia jeddaense Verves et Khrokalo, 2020

Verves, Yu. G., 2020, Review Of Subtribe Apodacrina (Diptera, Sarcophagidae) Of Middle East With Descriptions Of Ten New Species, Zoodiversity 54 (3), pp. 183-204 : 193

Xeromyia jeddaense Verves et Khrokalo , sp. n.

Material. Type. Holotype:}: Saudi Arabia: nr. Jedda, 21.01.1946, leg. E. S. Brown. Deposited in NHMUK . Paratype:}: Saudi Arabia: Buraiman nr. Jedda, 18.01.1946, leg. E. S. Brown. Deposited in NHMUK .

Differential diagnosis: Similar to X. africana ( Rohdendorf, 1930) and X. transoxiana ( Rohdendorf, 1925) in coloration and abdominal pattern, differing from the former species by the fine fr and narrower dusting areas between spots of 3 rd abdominal tergite, and from the latter by the very narrow fore part of frontal vitta.

F e m a l e. B o d y l e n g t h 6.5–7.0 mm. — Head. Frontal vitta brownish yellow, almost without dusting, other parts of head densely silvery white pollinose. Antenna and palp yellow, apical half of arista darkened. Frons at vertex 0.34–0.35×, at level of antennal base 0.30–0.33× head-width. Frontal vitta 3.0× widened in hind part, in fore part parallel, 0.5× as wide as one of parafrontalia. Postpedicel 3.0× as long as pedicel, arista widened in basal 0.7–0.8. Parafacialia at level of antennal base 0.17–0.19×, gena 0.04–0.06× eye-height. Palp at apex strongly widened. oc fine; fr 8–10, short and fine, not crossed; orb 1+1, proclinate ones short; parafrontalia and parafacialia with short light setae; gena with more dense and long yellow setae and 2–3 black setae in fore part; one pair of vi; oral setae absent. — Thorax covered with medium long black setae, densely light grey pollinose, longitudinal stripes badly developed, the apex of scutellum light yellow. acr 0+1; dc 0+2–3; ia 0–1+1–2; pprn 2; npl 2 (without setulae). Scutellum with 3 pairs of strong marg; ds not distinct. — Wings hyaline. Costal spine absent, petiolus of cell r 4+5 0.5× as long as r-m, R 4+5 bare, M -vein rightangled, dm-cu s -like curved. t 2 near the middle with one elongate and one short ad. — Legs yellow; f 1 almost entirely, f 2 and f 3 in basal 2/3 grey pollinose; t 1 and t 3 fuscous in basal 2/3; base of t 3 grayish. — Abdomen with light yellowish grey dusting, with black pattern, slightly reddish laterally. 1+2 nd tergite entirely black, 3 rd tergite in hind 1/3–2/5 with rectangle transverse median spot, separated from lateral stripes by narrow areas of dusting; 4 th tergite with similar pattern, but pollinose areas between spots more wide; 5 th tergite in hind 0.6 with large median spot and paired rectangle lateral spots.

M a l e. Unknown.

Etymology: The species epithet is formed from the name of the type locality, Jedda.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Palaearctic: Asia: Saudi Arabia.