Xerophilomyia famagustica Verves et Khrokalo, 2020

Verves, Yu. G., 2020, Review Of Subtribe Apodacrina (Diptera, Sarcophagidae) Of Middle East With Descriptions Of Ten New Species, Zoodiversity 54 (3), pp. 183-204 : 199-200

Xerophilomyia famagustica Verves et Khrokalo , sp. n.

Material. Type. Holotype:}, Cyprus: Famagusta , 21.05.1948. Deposited in NHMUK.

D i f f e r e n t i a l d i a g n o s i s: Similar to X. nigritarsus sp. n. in the black mid tarsus and abdominal pattern, differing by the following characters: orb reach to mid length of frons; frontal vitta entirely silver pollinose; abdomen light grey pollinose, without lateral yellow areas.

Female. Body length 5.7 mm. — Head. Parafrontalia and parafacialia yellowish white pollinose, more dark at vertex, lunula and gena silvery white pollinose, frontal vitta yellow, entirely silver pollinose, antenna and palp yellow, apical part of arista fuscous, occiput light grey pollinose. Frons at vertex 0.36×, at level of antennal base 0.30× headwidth. Frontal vitta 1.6× widened backwards, at level of middle of frons length 2.0× as wide as one of parafrontalia. Postpedicel 2.4× as long as pedicel, arista widened in basal 0.4. Parafacialia at level of antennal base 0.16×, gena 0.07× eye-height. Palp medium long, at apex widened. oc fine; fr 12–13, strong, in fore part of frons crossed; orb 20–25, very short, seta-like, reach to mid length of frons; parafrontalia with microscopic light setae; gena with more long yellow setae; 2 pairs of vi. — Thorax covered with medium long black setae, densely grey pollinose, longitudinal stripes absent, scutellum yellowish brown at apex, pleurae light grey pollinose. acr 0+1, dc 3+3–4, only prescutellar one straight; ia 1+1; pprn 2; npl 2 (without setulae). Scutellum with 3 pairs of long marg; ds badly developed. — Wings hyaline. Costal spine absent, petiolus of cell r 4+5 short, 0.3×x as long as r-m; R 4+5 bare, M -vein acute-angled, dm-cu straight. — Legs yellow, f 1 and f 3 almost entirely, f 2 in basal part light grey pollinose; all tibia yellow, t 1 light grey pollinose, all tarsi black; t 2 with 2 ad. — Abdomen light grey pollinose, without lateral yellow areas. 3 rd tergite with rounded middle spot and paired lateral stripes in hind 0.4, the distance between spot and stripes relatively equal to diameter of middle spot; 4 th tergite with similar pattern, but distance between stripes and spot less than diameter of middle spot; 5 th tergite in hind 2/3 with 3 distinctly spots. All spots and stripes black. 1+2 nd and 3 rd abdominal tergites without medio-marginals.

M a l e. Unknown.

Etymology: The species epithet is formed from the name of the type locality, Famagusta.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Palaearctic: Europe: Cyprus.