Xeromyia omanica 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 : 194-195

Xeromyia omanica Verves et Khrokalo , sp. n.

Material. Type. Holotype:}; Oman: Wadi Quryat Ag. Stn. 500 m, 5.03.1976, leg. K. Guichard. Deposited in NHMUK.

D i f f e r e n t i a l d i a g n o s i s: Similar to X. africana ( Rohdendorf, 1930) in the abdominal pattern, well differing by very broad frons and more dark coloration of abdomen.

Female. Body length 4.0 mm. — Head yellowish white pollinose, frontal vitta yellow, slightly pollinose, vertex fuscous, antenna and palp yellow, apex of arista blackish. Frons at vertex 0.46×, at level of antennal base 0.38× head-width. Frontal vitta 2.5× widened backwards, in the middle of frons 1.7× as wide as one of parafrontalia. Postpedicel 3.7× as long as pedicel, arista widened in basal 0.9. Parafacialia at level of antennal base 0.16×, gena 0.07× eye-height. Palp long, at apex strongly widened. oc medium long; fr 6–7, long and strong; orb 1+1, both pairs long and strong; parafrontalia and parafacialia with microscopic light setae; gena with more long yellowish white setae; vi one pair; oral setae absent. — Thorax covered with medium long black setae, dark grey pollinose with golden ting, longitudinal stripes of mesonotum linear, apex of scutellum brownish. acr 0+1; dc 0+1–2; ia 1+1–2; pprn 2; npl 2 (without setulae). Scutellum with 3 pairs of long marg and one pair of more short ds. — Wings hyaline. Costal spine absent, cell r 4+5 petiolate, R 4+5 bare, M -vein right-angled, dm-cu s -like curved. — Legs black, all f yellow at apex, t 1 and t 3 yellow in basal 1/3–1/2, t 2 entirely yellow, fore and mid tarsi yellowish brown, hind tarsi brownish black. t 2 with one ad. — Abdomen in greater part black, very fine golden pollinose, mat. 1+2 nd and 3 rd tergites yellow laterally; 1+2 nd tergite almost entirely black dorsally; 3 rd tergite in hind 0.4 with median spot and paired lateral stripes, which divided by very narrow pollinose areas; 4 th tergite with similar pattern, but pollinose areas between spot and stripes somewhat broader; 5 th tergite with 3 spots, median spot placed in hind 0.6, lateral spots — in hind 0.5 of this tergite.

M a l e. Unknown.

Etymology: The species epithet is formed from the name of the state Oman.

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

Figs 13–14. Xeromyia orthogona (Rohd.) . 13 (male): a —habitus in lateral view; b —head in profile; c —head in frontal view; d — head in dorsal view; e — wing; f — abdomen in dorsal view; g — label. 14 (female): a — habitus in lateral view; b — abdomen in dorsal view; c —head in profile; d —head in frontal view; e —head in dorsal view; g — label.