A review of subtribe Phrosinellina Verves, 1989, with description of Phrosinella (Asiometopia) kocaki sp. nov. from the Middle East (Diptera: Sarcophagidae: Miltogramminae: Metopiaini)
Author
Verves, Yury
Author
Khrokalo, Liudmyla
text
Turkish Journal of Zoology
2017
2016-05-28
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3906/zoo-1512-60
journal article
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10.3906/zoo-1512-60
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Subgenus
Asiometopia
Rohdendorf, 1935
Asiometopia
Rohdendorf 1935: 126
(as genus).
Type
species:
Pedimyia kozlovi
Rohdendorf, 1925
; by original designation.
Asiometopia
:
Rohdendorf, 1935: 126
[key to species], 1971b: 129 [revision];
Chao and Zhang, 1998: 1528
[in key], 1532 [redescription and faunistic];
Verves, 1986: 88
[catalogue].
Phrosinella
(
Asiometopia
)
:
Verves, 1990: 553
[in key];
Verves and Khrokalo, 2006: 102
[in key].
Bright colored small or midsized flies (4.5β10.0 mm in length). Frontal vitta distinctly narrower than one of parafrontalia, blackish, more or less lightly dusted; lower margin of head very short; abdomen with dark bands or spots in hind parts of tergites; each of 1stβ4th tarsomeres of
β
fore tarsi with a pair of very long curved apical
ad
and
pd
;
R
1
dorsally bare or with several black hairs in basal half; 5th tergite densely lightly dusted in fore 0.3β0.6. Seven species are distributed in arid zones of the Palearctic region.
Habits:
The larvae of
Asiometopia
sp.
were developed in dead insects in nests of such sphecid wasps as
Liris opalipennis
(prey - nymphs of crickets),
Palarus aurantiacus
, and
Philanthus triangulum
(prey - different Apoidea and Sphecoidea) (
Myartzeva, 1972a
).