Efferia vauriei (Curran)

Scarbrough, Aubrey G. & Perez-Gelabert, Daniel E., 2008, Review of the West Indian species of Efferia Coquillett (Diptera: Asilidae): Part 1. Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Cuba, and Jamaica, Insecta Mundi 2008 (49), pp. 1-29 : 25

Efferia vauriei (Curran)

Fig. 1 , 43-45

Erax vauriei Curran, 1953: 5 .

Nerax vauriei (Curran) , Hull 1962: 478. Combi-

nation.

Efferia vauriei (Curran) , Martin and Papavero

1970: 66. Combination, catalogue.

Types examined. BAHAMAS, South

Bimini Isl. / v.1951 C. and P. Vaurie (holotype

m, AMNH). Paratypes: same data as holotype

except vi-viii.1951 (allotype f, 10 m, 12 f, AMNH) ;

same data as holotype (1 m, FSCA) ; same data as

holotype except vii.1951 (1 m, FSCA); South Bimini

Isl. / Bahamas B.W.I. / 10.vi.1950 / Cazier &

Rindge (1 f, FSCA); same data except vi.1951 ~

P.&C. Vaurie / collectors (1 f, FSCA).

Other specimens examined. BAHAMAS:

Stranger Cay, 14.vii.? ~ Erax rufitibia Macq.

Figure 46-48. Male terminalia of Efferia vinalensis n. misidentified’ ~ Erax fortis Wk. ‘misidentified ~

sp., lateral views; 46. intact terminalia; 47a-b. gonostylus Efferia vauriei (Curran) / dt. A. Scarbrough 07’ (1

apically and basally; 48a-b. phallus with aedeagus, m, 0186797, OSUC); Erax rufitibia / Macq. / aedeagal tubes, and phallic flanges.

Stranger Cay / vii.1914 (1 m, MCZC); Fortune

Island / (or Long Cay) / nr. Albert Town /

7.iii.1953 ~ Van Vost A.M.N.H. / Bahama Isls. Exped. / coll. L. Giovannoli ~ vauriei (1 m, FSCA).

Distribution. BAHAMAS, South and East Bimini Islands, Stranger Cay, Fortune Island; June- August.

Remark. Efferia vauriei is distinguished by the characters in the key and the combined characters of the terminalia (Fig. 43-45). It is further distinguished by the several long setae along the apical margin of sternite 8, the tooth-like process along the posterior margin of the epandrium [concealed in lateral view], and the dense orange-yellow setae on the inner surface of the gonocoxite. The seventh segment of the female is black with thin brown tomentum dorsally and black setae; at middle, the terminalia is about 1/ 9 as wide as long.

Figures

Figure 1. Distribution of Efferia in the Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Cuba, and Jamaica.