Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) tangerensis

Whitmore, Daniel, 2011, New taxonomic and nomenclatural data on Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), with description of six new species, Zootaxa 2778, pp. 1-57 : 6

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.201885

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6184991

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scientific name

Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) tangerensis
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Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) tangerensis View in CoL nom. nov.

( Figs 3–5 View FIGURES 1 – 5. 1 – 2 )

Heteronychia (Heteronychia) amica Peris, González-Mora & Mingo, 1998: 173 . Type locality: Morocco, Tanger. [Junior secondary homonym of Phallosphaera amica Ma, 1964 View in CoL .]

Type material examined. 1 3 paratype: Tanger, M. Escalera leg. ( UCME) [terminalia dissected and placed in glycerin in a microvial pinned beneath the source specimen].

Remarks. Peris et al. (1998) based their description of Heteronychia amica upon four males (the holotype and three paratypes), all from Tanger in Morocco and all deposited at UCME. The examined paratype fits well with the original illustrations published by Peris et al. (1998: 173, fig. 8), who did not specify which specimen(s) was (were) used for their illustrations.

Diagnosis (3). A medium-sized (7.5– 10mm) species of Heteronychia with a narrow frons, ca. 0.3 times eye width in dorsal view at its narrowest point; lower facial margin slightly protruding in lateral view; scutellum with a pair of apical setae; mid femur with a subapical posteroventral comb; costal spine short; wing vein R1 bare on dorsal surface; microtrichosity of abdomen with lateral black markings covering whole length of tergites 3−4 in posterior view; abdominal tergite 3 without median marginal setae; epandrium red-orange; cercus ( Fig. 3 View FIGURES 1 – 5. 1 – 2 ) entirely covered with tightly-spaced setae and with a rounded subapical hump; pregonite ( Fig. 4 View FIGURES 1 – 5. 1 – 2 ) distinctly widening apically, tip distinctly bent ventrally; distiphallus ( Fig. 5 View FIGURES 1 – 5. 1 – 2 ): apical process of harpes flattened, tapering and directed first apically then ventrally; juxta short, with triangular (irregularly serrated) lateral processes; vesica reduced to a small sclerite.

Distribution. Morocco.

Etymology. A Latin adjective referring to the type locality of the species.

UCME

Faculdad de Biologia, Departamento de Zoologia

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Sarcophagidae

Genus

Sarcophaga

Loc

Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) tangerensis

Whitmore, Daniel 2011
2011
Loc

Heteronychia (Heteronychia) amica Peris, González-Mora & Mingo, 1998 : 173

Peris 1998: 173
1998
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