Eudorylas blascoi De Meyer, 1997

Motamedinia, Behnam, Skevington, Jeffrey Hunter & Kelso, Scott, 2020, Revision of Eudorylas Aczel, 1940 (Diptera, Pipunculidae) in the Middle East, with the description of four new species, Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 53609-53609 : 53609

Eudorylas blascoi De Meyer, 1997

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: JSS52179 ; recordedBy: M. Zardouei; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; associatedSequences: GB: MN549665; Taxon: scientificName: Eudorylasblascoi; Location: country: Iran; stateProvince: Kermanshah; locality: Dodan ; decimalLatitude: 35.10; decimalLongitude: 46.20; Event: samplingProtocol: funnel Malaise trap; eventDate: 2016-05-20; Record Level: institutionCode: CNC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: JSS52039 ; recordedBy: B. Motamedinia; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; associatedSequences: GB: MN549654; Taxon: scientificName: Eudorylasblascoi; Location: country: Iran; stateProvince: North Khorasan; locality: Darkesh ; decimalLatitude: 37.433333; decimalLongitude: 56.733333; Event: samplingProtocol: sweeping; eventDate: 2016-07-23; Record Level: institutionCode: CNC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: JSS52023 ; recordedBy: B. Motamedinia; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; associatedSequences: GB: MN549646; Taxon: scientificName: Eudorylasblascoi; Location: country: Iran; stateProvince: North Khorasan; locality: Biar ; decimalLatitude: 37.5395; decimalLongitude: 56.943333; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2016-06-10 /24; Record Level: institutionCode: CNC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: JSS52223 ; recordedBy: A. Jabari; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; associatedSequences: GB: MN549648; Taxon: scientificName: Eudorylasblascoi; Location: country: Iran; stateProvince: Alborz; locality: Taleghan ; decimalLatitude: 36.166667; decimalLongitude: 50.75; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; Record Level: institutionCode: CNC

Diagnosis

The male of this species can be recognised by a large membranous area, as wide as long; unequal gonopods (Fig. 8 B); phallic guide thin in basal half and broad in apical half, with the hook-like projection in the middle pointing upwards in ventral view (Fig. 8 B); right surstylus with a strong projection in the middle of inner margin in dorsal view (Fig. 8 A).

Distribution

France, Greece, Iran, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Uzbekistan ( Kehlmaier 2005a, Motamedinia et al. 2017, Kehlmaier et al. 2019, Skevington 2020) (Fig. 1 ).

Notes

Eudorylas blascoi is part of the E. mutillatus species complex. Based on uncorrected pairwise genetic distances (p-distance), E. blascoi differs from E. mutillatus by 3.58%.

Figures

Figure 1. Eudorylas species distribution in the Middle East.

Figure 8. Male genitalia of Eudorylas blascoi (JSS 52179) (A) in dorsal view; (B) in ventral view; (C) ejaculatory apodeme; (D, E) in lateral view.