Pegomya skulei Michelsen

Michelsen, Verner, 2008, The Palaearctic species of the Pegomya terminalis species group (Diptera: Anthomyiidae), with descriptions of two new species, Zootaxa 1781, pp. 31-46 : 45

Pegomya skulei Michelsen , sp. nov.

Figs. 32–37 .

Etymology. The present species is named after Bjarne Skule, a Danish lepidopterist who collected the only known specimen.

Description. Male. Small (WL 3.7mm; n=1). Externally indiscernible from P. terminalis except for wholly blackish ground colour of head, body and appendages. Even terminalia ( Figs. 32–37 ) in most respects very similar to P. terminalis apart from shape and vestiture of surstyli which are diagnostic in respect to very short and sharply pointed meso-distal process ( Fig. 34 ) and, as seen in profile ( Fig. 35 ), in shape of mesobasal laminate process, and fewer but stronger ventro-basal setulae.

Female. Unknown.

Material examined. GREECE [holotype, ZMUC]: Laconia: SW Monemvassia, 1 male 1–7.iv.1983 (B. Skule). The holotype shows signs of having been retrieved from a light trap.

Distribution. Known only by the holotype from southern Peloponnese.

Figures

FIGURES 32 – 37. Pegomya skulei, male. 32, 33. Sternite V, ventral and lateral views. 34, 35. Hypopygium, caudal and lateral views. 36. Pre- and postgonites, lateral view. 37. Phallus, lateral view. Same scale.