Phasia hippobosca ( Paramonov, 1958 ) Sun & Marshall, 2003

Sun, Xuekui & Marshall, Stephen A., 2003, Systematics of Phasia Latreille (Diptera: Tachinidae), Zootaxa 276 (1), pp. 1-320 : 173-174

3.6.8 Phasia hippobosca ( Paramonov, 1958) , comb. nov.

(Figures I­24, II­8.2)

Hyalomyia hippobosca Paramonov, 1958: 594 .

Alophora hippobosca: Crosskey 1973: 110 (catalog) ­ Cantrell and Crosskey 1989: 735 (catalog).

DESCRIPTION

Body length: 6­9 mm.

MALE: HEAD. Head compressed anteriorly. Eyes separated by a distance as wide as ocellar triangle. Fronto­orbital plate black with grey pruinosity; with 2­3 rows of hairs laterally (close to frontal setae). Frontal vitta broad, brown. Frontal vitta at base of antennae almost 3 times as wide as fronto­orbital plate anteriorly. Ocellar setae present but fine; outer vertical setae present; inner vertical setae absent. Face brown to black with grey pruinosity. Parafacial black with grey pruinosity, bare, 1.1 times as wide as first flagellomere. Lower margin of face projecting, visible in profile; brown, grey pruinose. Vibrissa well differentiated; intervibrissal distance 1.4­1.5 times distance between vibrissa and eye on same side; facial ridge with bristles on lower 1/3. Gena black with grey pruinosity; hairs white; height 0.2 times eye height. Lunule black and shining; sublunular bulla indistinct. Antenna black; first flagellomere 1.4 times as long as pedicel; arista thickened on basal 0.4. Length of oral opening 2.6­2.8 times its width. Occiput flattened, white pruinose; hairs black. Palpus brown to black.

THORAX. Mesoscutum shining, without pruinosity; extremely flattened, with fine black hairs. 0+1 acrostichal seta; 0+1(2) dorsocentral setae; 2 postpronotal setae; presutural supra­alar seta absent; 0 postsutural intra­alar seta; 2 notopleural setae; 1­2 supra­alar setae; 2 postalar setae. Pleuron thinly grey pruinose; hairs black. Anepimeral setae hairlike, black; 1 katepisternal seta; 6­9 meral setae. Scutellum black; extremely flattened dorsoventrally; shining, without pruinosity, with two pairs of marginal setae; apical setae present and distinct; discal setae randomly arranged, not in rows. Subscutellum not very prominent. WING. Lower calypter brown to black. Wing base without scale­like setae. Tegula black. Basicosta brown. Wing pictured on basal 1/2, anal area white; broad; petiole of apical cell 0.34 times as long as preceding section of R 4+5; M meeting R 4+5 almost at right angle. Halter yellow, or brown. LEGS. Fore femur black; hairs black. Fore tibia black, with 1 p, apically with 1 pv and 0­1 d. Fore tarus black. Fore claws brown, apex black; 1.1­1.2 times as long as fifth tarsomere. Pulvilli brown. Mid femur brown to black; hairs black. Mid tibia black, with 1 ad, 1 av and 1 v, apically with 1 av, 1 pv, 1 v and 1 d. Hind femur brown to black (strongly arched, swollen); hairs black. Hind tibia black, as long as hind femur, with 4­6 pd, 4­6 ad and 3­4 v.

ABDOMEN. Abdominal tergites black; pruinosity absent; longitudinal vitta absent; spherical. Relative length of abdominal tergites I+II:III:IV:V = 1.2:1:0.9:0.8; relative width I+II:III:IV:V = 0.3:1:1:0.8. Hair spots of tergites IV, V indistinct. TERMINALIA. Syncercus slender, V­notched posteriorly. Surstylus narrow, slender, straight, as long as cercus. Ejaculatory apodeme small. Hypandrium broad, shorter than phallapodeme, but almost as long as phallus. Pregonite broad, haired dorsally. Postgonite as long as pregonite; pointed, haired ventrally. Phallus short, sparely haired dorsally on basal 1/2. Distiphallus well sclerotized, with a pair of reversal hooks.

FEMALE. Wing hyaline. Eyes separated by a distance as wide as single ocellus. Body less flattened than male. Anterior spine­like setae of hind tibia absent. Sternite VII (sheath) slightly longer than sternite VI, broad apically, bent, apex directed ventrally, sternite VII with linear wrinkles ventrally. Ovipositor bent upward.

TYPE MATERIAL

Hyalomyia hippobosca Paramonov, 1958 . Holotype ♂, AUSTRALIA, ACT, Canberra, 26.ix.1948, Paramonov (ANIC, examined); paratypes, 1♂, AUSTRALIA, ACT, Molouglo R., 20.iii.1930, L.F. Graham (ANIC, examined); 1♂, AUSTRALIA, Victoria, Mt. Hotham, 5,900ft, 1.2.1957 (MVNH, examined).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED

AUSTRALIA: Australian Capital Territory: Blundell's [?], 11.x.1950, Paramonov (1♀, ANIC). New South Wales: Blue Mtns., Mt. Tomah, 6.12.1981, 4.2.1979 and 1.10.1978, N.W. Rodd (3♂, AMSA); Gibraltar Range National Park, Waratah track, 10­ 12.xi.1984, D.K. Yeates (2♂, MVNH); Woodford, 11.xii.1976, G. Williams (1♂, AMSA); 12km SW Ebor, 13.xii.1984, D.K. Yeates (1♂, MVNH). Queensland: Dayboro, 10.i.1983, B. Cantrell (1♂, QDPC). Victoria: Mt. Wilson, (3km S), 10.x.1978, N.W. Rodd (1♂, AMSA); [no more data], (1♂, BMNH); Daudeswy Damyes [?], 3.2.1899 (1♂, MVNH); Grampians, x.1928, F.E. Wilson (1♂, MVNH).

HOST

Unknown.