Myoleja Rondani

Han, Ho-Yeon & Kütük, Murat, 2006, A new species of Myoleja Rondani (Diptera: Tephritidae) from Turkey with a key to the known species of the genus, Zootaxa 1155, pp. 25-33 : 26-27

Genus Myoleja Rondani

Myoleja Rondani, 1856: 112 (type species, Tephritis lucida Fallen , by original designation); Blanc & Foote, 1961: 75 (key to North American species); Steyskal, 1972: 210 (key to North American species); Hardy, 1973: 252 (review and key, Thailand and surrounding countries); Hardy, 1974: 197 (review and key, Philippines); Kandybina, 1977: 173 (larval key to species, USSR); Foote, 1980: 35 (diagnosis); Ito, 1984: 162 (description); Hardy, 1987: 311 (taxonomic discussion, key to species from Indonesia and New Guinea); Han, 1992: 55 (Ph.D. dissertation; phylogenetic delimitation, diagnosis, description); Foote et al., 1993: 216 (diagnosis, key to U.S.

species); Wang, 1998: 183 (diagnosis, key to East Asian species); Korneyev, 1998: 6 (taxonomic status of genus); Han, 1999: 273 (in Trypetini generic key), 288 (phylogenetic delimitation, diagnosis).

Shunraria Ito, 1984: 122 (type species, Shunraria boninensis Ito , by original designation); Han, 1992: 57 (Ph.D. dissertation; suggested synonym of Myoleja ­ not an available publication for the purposes of zoological nomenclature); Wang, 1996: 183 (new synonym of Myoleja , attributed to Han 1992).

Myioleja, Myiolia, Myolia, Mioleia ; errors or emendations.

Remarks

The majority of the references before 1990 in the above synonymy used a much broader concept of the genus Myoleja than the current one ( Han, 1999). For examples, all the New World species previously placed in Myoleja no longer belong there.

Based on the generic definition by Han (1999), a total of five Myoleja species are now recognized (see their distribution in the following key). Korneyev (1998) suggested that Spilographa caucasica Bigot might also belong to Myoleja , but Norrbom (pers. com.; Norrbom, 2004) recently informed us that he examined the holotype female in the Hope Entomological Collections (Oxford, England) and found that it clearly belongs to the genus Chetostoma Rondani. Norrbom et al (1999) also included Euleia contemnens Hering and Pseudospheniscus desparatus Hering in Myoleja , but we found that E. contemnens belongs to a new genus of the subtribe Chetostomatina (Han, in press) and P. desparatus should be treated under another new genus of the subtribe Trypetina (Han, in prep.). Both species do not have the laterally flattened apex of the aculeus (as in Fig. 11 ), which is considered to be a synapomorphy of Myoleja , Montiludia Ito , Anomoia Walker , Chetostoma Rondani , and Paramyiolia Shiraki within the Chetostomatina ( Han, 1999; Han, in press).

Figures

FIGURES 6 – 11. Myoleja korneyevi, n. sp.; 6, epandrium and surstyli, posterior view (proctiger removed); 7, epandrium, surstyli, and proctiger, lateral view; 8, glans dorsolateral view; 9, spermatheca; 10, female postabdomen, ventral and dorsal views (inset at 8 x main figures); 11, aculeus, ventral and lateral views.