Otites Latreille 1804

Morgulis, Elizabeth, 2013, Review of Otites Latreille (Diptera: Ulidiidae) from Israel with two new species and notes on biology and behavior, Zootaxa 3619 (5), pp. 541-553 : 542-543

Genus Otites Latreille 1804

Otites Latreille 1804: 196 . Type species: Musca porcus Latreille, 1804: 196 (as “ Musca porcus Bosc collection), by monotypy. Otites Latreille, 1805: 383 . Type species: Otites elegans Latreille, 1805: 383 by monotypy (unavailable name, originally published in synonymy); invalid type designation.

Redescription. Head: Structure: Mostly higher than long, sometimes almost as long as high. Frons as long as wide or slightly wider than long. Face with projecting carina; antennal groove deep. Eye as high as long or higher than long. Pedicel shorter than 1st flagellomere; first flagellomere elliptical, rounded apically. Palp elongate, spatulate to slightly oblanceolate, mostly as long as antenna, excluding arista. Color and vestiture: Frons with matt orange to brown medial vitta; laterally white, silvery or gray microtrichose, including orbit; microtrichia often extend ventrally onto parafacial. Face yellow to brown. First flagellomere often orange, apically infuscate, rarely entirely brown or black, silvery-gray microtrichose. Chaetotaxy: 2 orbital setae present. Frons usually densely and often long setulose. Gena with long black setae and setulae. Vibrissal angle, postgena and occiput often setulose. Arista with short hairs.

Thorax: Color and vestiture: Scutum mostly brown to black with silvery-gray microtrichia, usually with 1 medial and 2 lateral (anterior and posterior to transverse suture) darker longitudinal lines with less or no microtrichia. Chaetotaxy: All setae and setulae black. One postpronotal and 2 notopleural setae present. Scutellum usually with 2 pairs of setae (3 pairs in O. cretana Kameneva 2012 ).

Legs: Coxae and trochanters often densely gray microtrichose, remaining parts slightly gray microtrichose.

Wing: Partially hyaline, usually with brown to black pattern consisting of spots or bands. Venation: Vein R1 setulose dorsally, mostly only along pterostigma, in some species along entire length. Vein Cu2 straight, sinuous or curved; cell bcu usually with very short or without posteroapical lobe. Veins R4+5 and M parallel to slightly convergent, cell r4+5 open.

Abdomen: Brown to black, often with sexually dimorphic microtrichose pattern.

Male terminalia: Pair of ear-shaped parameres often present; medial surstylus usually bearing 4-5 (in Nearctic species) to 35-40 prensisetae; lateral surstylus elongate, bearing no prensisetae. Phallus mostly laterally (on both sides) setulose or spinulose and often medially scaled or microspinulose. Glans short, membranous, setulose and/or micro-spinulose or bare.

Female terminalia: Cercal unit usually oval; 3 elongate, wrinkled spermathecae present.