Dinera ferina ( Fallén, 1817 )

Zhang, Chun-Tian & Shima, Hiroshi, 2006, A systematic study of the genus Dinera Robineau-Desvoidy from the Palaearctic and Oriental regions (Diptera: Tachinidae), Zootaxa 1243 (1243), pp. 1-60 : 23-24

Dinera ferina ( Fallén, 1817)

Figs. 19–22

Musca ferina Fallén, 1817: 242 . Myiocera ferina: Stein 1924: 240 (notes). — Richter & Farinets 1984: 163 (first instar larva).

Phorostoma ferina: Townsend 1936: 140 (in key). — Townsend 1938 (redescription). — Kolo­

miets 1966: 58 (key and description). Dinera ferina: Herting 1984: 141 (Catalog) . — Tschorsnig 1985: 100 (male postabdomen). —

Herting & Dely­Draskovits 1993: 361 (Catalog). — Tschorsnig & Herting 1994: 80 (key), 156

(ecology). Myocera longipes Robineau­Desvoidy, 1830: 329 . Phorostoma subrotunda Robineau­Desvoidy, 1830: 327 . Omalogaster subrotundata Macquart, 1835: 327 . Myocera apicalis Robineau­Desvoidy, 1863: 394 . Phorostoma offae Kolomiets, 1966: 74 . Billaea sibirica Kolomiets, 1966: 100 .

Diagnosis

Medium­sized grayish flies; facial carina low and rather straight, gena about 2/5 of eye height, antenna dark brown with pedicel dark reddish, palpus brown, reddish apically, 3+4 dc, hind tibia with a distinct apical pv; abdomen dark brown with dense grayish white pruinosity that has shifting appearance, abdominal syntergite 1+2 excavated back to posterior margin with strong median marginal setae, abdominal tergites 4 and 5 with irregular discal setae, costal spine absent. Cerci slender on apical half, surstylus extending beyond cerci and bluntly rounded apically, distiphallus with membranous apical part about twice as long as sclerotized basal part.

Material examined

POLAND. 1 male, 1 female, Bialowieza forest , Czerlonka UTM FD84, 29.vii.1998, C. Bystrowski , 1 female, Knyszyn forest , Sosnowiec UTMFE70, 27.vii.2001, C. Bystrowski ( SNUC) .

Distribution Europe, Russia (Transcaucasus, East Siberia).

Hosts

Coleoptera : Sinodendron cylindricum L.? Dorcus parallelopipedus L. ( Lucanidae ); Helops coeruleus L. ( Tenebrionidae ) ( Herting 1960: 128; Mesnil 1980: 4; Tschorsnig & Herting 1994: 156).

Remarks

This species is known from Europe and Russia (East Siberia). It resembles D. similis , but is easily distinguished from it in having the abdomen evenly covered with grayish pruinosity of tessellated appearance, facial carina low, and strong apical pv seta on hind tibia.