Eudorylas gemellus Kehlmaier, 2005

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

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e53609

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scientific name

Eudorylas gemellus Kehlmaier, 2005
status

 

Eudorylas gemellus Kehlmaier, 2005

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: JSS50796 ; recordedBy: A.Freidberg; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; associatedSequences: GB: MN549659; Taxon: scientificName: Eudorylasgemellus; Location: country: Israel; locality: Karmel ; decimalLatitude: 32.733333; decimalLongitude: 35.033333; Record Level: institutionCode: TAU GoogleMaps

Diagnosis

This species can be recognised by a long phallic guide in ventral view (Fig. 15 View Figure 15 B); epandrium longer than wide (Fig. 15 View Figure 15 A); surstyli with small finger-like projection apically in dorsal view (Fig. 15 View Figure 15 A); gonopods asymmetrical and small with a small-sized hump-like projections on each side (Fig. 15 View Figure 15 B); subepandrial sclerite wide with scattered setae in ventral view (Fig. 15 View Figure 15 B).

Distribution

Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Israel, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey ( Kehlmaier 2005a, Skevington 2020) (Fig. 12 View Figure 12 ).

Notes

Eudorylas gemellus is genetically similar to E. arcanus Coe, 1966 (6.71-7.15% pairwise divergence) and the E. obscurus complex (including E. auctus and E. longifrons differing by 4.55% and 4.78%, respectively).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Pipunculidae

Genus

Eudorylas