Eudorylas pannonicus (Becker, 1897)

Motamedinia, Behnam, Skevington, Jeffrey Hunter & Kelso, Scott, 2020, Revision of Eudorylas Aczel, 1940 (Diptera, Pipunculidae) in the Middle East, with the description of four new species, Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 53609-53609 : 53609

Eudorylas pannonicus (Becker, 1897)

Pipunculus pannonicus Becker 1897:51

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: JSS52207 ; recordedBy: E. Gilasian; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; associatedSequences: GB: MN549657; Taxon: scientificName: Eudorylaspannonicus; Location: country: Iran; stateProvince: Khuzestan; locality: Shush ; decimalLatitude: 32.1; decimalLongitude: 48.43; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2015-08-20; Record Level: institutionCode: CNC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: JSS52305 ; recordedBy: O. Ozden; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; associatedSequences: GB: MN549656; Taxon: scientificName: Eudorylaspannonicus; Location: country: Cyprus; locality: Kyrenia ; decimalLatitude: 35.347; decimalLongitude: 33.150400; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2017-11-05 /12; Record Level: institutionCode: CNC

Diagnosis

This species can be recognised by the shape of surstyli in dorsal view, base of both surstyli slightly rectangular-shaped, right surstylus with long inner finger-like projection curved to left surstylus in dorsal view (Fig. 18 A); gonopods unequal, right higher than left one, left one with two small projections in ventral view (Fig. 18 B); phallic guide straight with apical projection pointing upwards in lateral view (Fig. 18 C).

Distribution

Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Romania ( Skevington 2002b, Kehlmaier 2005a, Gharali et al. 2008) (Fig. 6 ).

Notes

Based on the shape of the genitalia, this species belongs to E. pannonicus form A (see Kehlmaier 2005a Fig. 63a). DNA barcodes of Eudorylas pannonicus and E. nasicus sp. n. are very similar (1.19% pairwise divergence). The genitalia of these species differ by the shape of right surstylus and phallic guide. The finger-like projection of the right surstylus is longer and the projection of the phallic guide is straighter in E. pannonicus . The differences are small, but we and C. Kehlmaier (pers. comm.) feel that they are different species and have treated them as such.

Figures

Figure 6. Eudorylas species distribution in the Middle East.

Figure 18. Male genitalia of Eudorylas pannonicus (JSS 52207) (A) in dorsal view; (B) in ventral view; (C) phallus & phallic guide in ventrolateral view; (D) ejaculatory apodeme; (E, F) in lateral view.