Gasterophilus nasalis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Li, Xin-Yu, Pape, Thomas & Zhang, Dong, 2019, Taxonomic review of Gasterophilus (Oestridae, Gasterophilinae) of the world, with updated nomenclature, keys, biological notes, and distributions, ZooKeys 891, pp. 119-156 : 119

Gasterophilus nasalis (Linnaeus, 1758) Figs 2 G–I , 5E, F , 8 D–F , 10F , 11F , 12 D–F , 15 G–I ; Table 1

Oestrus nasalis Linnaeus, 1758: 584. Type locality: Sweden (through reference to Fauna Svecica).

Oestrus equi Fabricius, 1787: 321. Type locality: not given, probably Europe.

Oestrus veterinus Clark, 1797: 312. New replacement name for Oestrus nasalis Linnaeus, 1758 ["I have given it the name of veterinus .... in preference to the erroneous one of nasalis" (p. 313)].

Oestrus salutaris Clark, 1815: pl. 1. Nomen nudum.

Gasterophilus clarkii Leach, 1817: 2. Type locality: England, Bantham close to Kingsbridge (as "Habitat in Anglia Occidentali. Apud Bantham prope Kingsbridge a meipso captus").

Gastrus jumentarum Meigen, 1824: 179. Type locality: not given, probably Denmark (as "Ein Weibchen in dem Koppenhagener Königl. Museum").

Oestrus gastricus minor Schwab, 1840: 40. Unavailable name proposed in synonymy with Oestrus nasalis Linnaeus, 1758 and Oestrus veterinus Clark, 1797 and not made available from subsequent use as a valid name for a taxon before 1961.

Gastrus subjacens Walker, 1849: 687. Type locality: Canada, Nova Scotia.

Oestrus stomachinus Gistel, 1848: 153. Type locality: not given, probably Germany, Bavaria.

Gasterophilus crossi Patton, 1924: 963. Type locality: India, Punjab.

Gastrophilus albescens Pleske, 1926: 228. Type locality: Egypt, Cairo (as "Il provient de l’Egypte des environs du Caire").

Gastrophilus nasalis var. nudicollis Dinulescu, 1932: 28, 32. Type locality: not given.

Gastrophilus veterinus var. aureus Dinulescu, 1938: 315. Type locality: not given.

Gastrus jumentorum : Brauer 1863: 87, 280; incorrect subsequent spelling of jumentarum Meigen, 1824.

Oestrus nasulis : Fabricius 1787: 321; incorrect subsequent spelling of nasalis Linnaeus, 1758.

Selected references.

Zumpt (1965: 117); Grunin (1969: 32); Pont (1973: 698); Kettle (1974); Soós and Minář (1986: 238); Cogley (1991b); Escartin and Bautista (1993); Xue and Wang (1996: 2210); Sequeira et al. (2001); Otranto et al. (2005); Colwell et al. (2006: 6); Colwell et al. (2007); Felix et al. (2007); Zhang et al. (2016); Li et al. (2018); Yan et al. (2019).

Diagnosis.

Facial plate setose. Wing entirely hyaline; distance between crossveins r-m and dm-cu less than length of r-m. Meron with unmodified setae. Legs mainly black-brown. Abdomen ground color dark brown or black, with reddish-yellow hair-like setae on tergites 5-7 in male, pale yellow in female. Male cercus long and narrow, length/width ratio more than 3.0; surstylus yellow, with gradually a tapered apex; processi longi elongated and distinctly bent inwards. Female sternite 8 longitudinally ridged in the middle and with flattened and a scallop-shaped apex.

Type material examined.

Holotype of Gastrophilus albescens Pleske, 1926. EGYPT • ♂; Cairo; no further information; ZIN.

Additional material examined.

CHINA - Inner Mongolia • 2♂♂, 5♀♀; Chifeng; Zhaowuda League, Right Banner; 24 May– 10 Aug. 1960; collector unknown; IOZ • 5♂, 1♀; Ulanqab, Temurtei County; 12-30 Aug. 1971; Y.R. Zhang leg.; IOZ. - Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region • 1♂; Altay, Qinghe County; 6 Jul. 1960; S.Y. Wang leg.; IOZ • 1♀; Altyn-Tagh; 3850 m; 7 Aug. 1988; X.Z. Zhang leg.; IOZ • 1♂; locality as for preceding; 11 Aug. 1988; X.Z. Zhang leg.; IOZ • 3♂♂; Fuyun County; Qiakuertu; 25 May– 3 Jun. 2010; F. Mo leg.; MBFU • 8♂♂, 1♀; Kalamaili; 18 Apr.-25 Jun. 2010; D. Zhang leg.; MBFU • 1♂, 5♀♀; Kalamaili; 16 Apr.-8 May 2011; D. Zhang leg.; MBFU.

Hosts.

Burchell’s zebra ( E. quagga burchellii), domestic horse ( E. ferus caballus), donkey ( E. africanus asinus), Mongolian wild ass ( E. hemionus hemionus), wild horse ( E. przewalskii ).

Distribution.

Afrotropical - Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Morocco, Namibia, Senegal, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Australasian - Australia (Queensland, Tasmania), Fiji, Hawaii, New Zealand. Nearctic - Canada (Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwestern, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Saskatchewan), Mexico (Aguascalientes, San Vicente Chicoloapan), USA (Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Washington, Wyoming). Neotropical - Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul, São Paulo), Chile ( Bío Bío Region), Jamaica, Panama, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, Venezuela. Oriental - India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand. Palaearctic - Afghanistan, Austria, Bulgaria, China (Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Tibet, Xinjiang), Cyprus, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Hungary, Iraq, Italy (incl. Corsica and Sicily), Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Mongolia, Morocco, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Russia (Tomsk), Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan.

Figures

Figure 2. Left lateral view of habitus (A, D, G), head and thorax (B, E, H), and head in frontal view (C, F, I) of Gasterophilus species A-C Male G. intestinalis (De Geer) China (in MBFU) D-F Female G. meridionalis (Pillers & Evans); South Africa (in KZNM) G-I Male G. nasalis (Linnaeus) China (in MBFU). Scale bars: 1 mm (A-E, I); 0.5 mm (F).

Figure 5. Dorsal view of habitus (A, C, E) and head and and thorax (B, D, F) of male Gasterophilus species A, B Male G. intestinalis (De Geer) C, D Female G. meridionalis (Pillers & Evans) E, F Male G. nasalis (Linnaeus). Scale bars: 1 mm (A-F).

Figure 8. Dorsal view (A, D, G) and left lateral view (B, E, H) of habitus, and head in frontal view (C, F, I) of female Gasterophilus species A-C G. intestinalis (De Geer); China (in MBFU) D-F G. nasalis (Linnaeus); China (in MBFU). Scale bars: 1 mm (A, B, D, E); 0.5 mm (C, F).

Figure 10. Wing of Gasterophilus species, with A-C modified from Li et al. (2019) A G. flavipes (Olivier) B G. haemorrhoidalis (Linnaeus) C G. inermis (Brauer) D G. intestinalis E G. meridionalis (Pillers & Evans) F G. nasalis (Linnaeus) G G. nigricornis (Loew) H G. pecorum (Fabricius) I G. ternicinctus Gedoelst. Scale bars: 0.5 mm (A-C); 1 mm (D-I).

Figure 11. Anterior (A, D, G), left lateral (B, E, H) and posterior view (C, F, I) of male terminalia of Gasterophilus species, modified from Li et al. (2019) A-C G. flavipes (Olivier) D-F G. haemorrhoidalis (Linnaeus) G-I G. inermis (Brauer). Scale bars: 0.5 mm (A-I). The dotted line in C and F indicates the sagittal plane. Abbreviations: cer, cercus; ph, phallus; pog, postgonite; pr l, processi longi; sur, sustylus.

Figure 12. Dorsal (A, D), left lateral (B, E) and posterior (C, F) view of male genitalia of Gasterophilus species A-C G. intestinalis (De Geer) D-F G. nasalis (Linnaeus). Scale bars: 0.5 mm (A-F).

Figure 15. Dorsal (A, D, G), left lateral (B, E, H) and ventral (C, F, I) view of female genitalia of Gasterophilus species A-C G. intestinalis (De Geer) D-F G. meridionalis (Pillers & Evans) G-I G. nasalis (Linnaeus). Scale bars: 0.5 mm (A-I).