Ephydra afghanica Dahl, 1961

Krivosheina, M. G. & Ozerov, A. L., 2021, A review of the shore-fly genus Ephydra Fallén, 1810 (Diptera: Ephydridae) of Russia, Russian Entomological Journal 30 (3), pp. 345-360 : 348-349

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https://doi.org/ 10.15298/rusentj.30.3.15

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scientific name

Ephydra afghanica Dahl, 1961
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Ephydra afghanica Dahl, 1961 View in CoL

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afghanica Dahl, 1961: 87 View in CoL ( Ephydra View in CoL ). Type-locality: Dahlah, Qandahar (22 km N) ( Afghanistan).

MATERIAL. Astrakhan’ Oblast: Lake Baskunchak (48.193°N 46.813°E), 2–4. V GoogleMaps .2010, K.P. Tomkovich (2 ♂♂, ZMUM); Khakassia: salt lake Beljo (54.65ºN 90.18ºE), 382 m, 1–3.VII.2011, K.P. Tomkovich (1 ♂, ZMUM) GoogleMaps .

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL. Armenia: Parakar (40.164ºN 44. 413ºE), 11.IX.1962, V . Richter (1 ♂, ZISP); China: Kurlyk [= Lake Hurleg Hu, 37.28°N 96.89°E], eastern Baingol, Caidam , V GoogleMaps . 1895, coll. Roborowsky et Kozlov (1 ♂, ZISP); Kyrgyzstan: Lake Issyk-Kul’, Rybach’e [=Balykchi] (42.465ºN 76.182ºE), 1600 m GoogleMaps , 16. VIII .1969 GoogleMaps , K. Gorodkov (2 ♂♂, ZISP); Turkmenistan: 30 km NW of Ashgabat (38.164ºN 57.960ºE), 16.IV.1983, 18.IV.1983, M. Krivosheina (21 ♂♂, ZMUM); Ashgabat (37.934ºN 58.387ºE) GoogleMaps , 15.XI.1983, N. Krivosheina (2 ♂♂, ZMUM); Bayram-Ali (37. 618ºN 62.162ºE) GoogleMaps , 18–19.IV.1930, P. Bogush (1 ♂, ZISP); Uzbekistan: Aral Sea, Syr-Dar’inskaya Distr ., 30. V.1928, N. Olenev,

V. Popov (11 ♂♂, ZISP); Golodnaya step’ Station [= Gulistan (40.500ºN 68.784ºE)], Khodzh. U. [=Khodzhentskiy uezd], 17. GoogleMaps V.1903, G. Yakobson (1 ♂, ZISP); Kzyl-Grad, Kungrad env. (39.889ºN 66.600ºE), 6–8.VII.1939 GoogleMaps , P. Vel’tishchev (2 ♂♂, ZISP); Mekhnatabadskiy Distr., Yangier (40.276ºN 68.816ºE), 15. GoogleMaps V.1980, M. Krivosheina (1 ♂, ZMUM) .

DESCRIPTION. Head grey pollinose except metallic shining frontal vitta and upper face, with bluish-greenish tinge; fronto-orbital plate grey pollinose. 3–4 long fronto-orbital setae, anterior interfrontal setae thin and short, no more than 1/3 of ocellar seta. Postocular setae short and thin. Palpus yellow. Antenna blackish, greyish dusted; arista pectinate on dorsal surface. Gena and parafacial golden-grey dusted.

Thorax black, densely golden-grey pollinose. Scutum subshining with brownish stripes. Acrostichals setulose in many irregular rows, intra-alars absent.

Legs yellow, tarsi of all legs sometimes darkened dorsally.

Abdomen black, grey pollinose, subshining with bluish-green tinge. Tergite 5 about 2–2.5 times as long as tergite 4. Male genitalia large, as long as tergites 4+5. Epandrium round-oval in dorsal (posterior) view, surstyli thin and curved, parallel-sided apically ( Fig. 25 View Figs 25–30 ). Epandrium parallel-sided in lateral view ( Fig. 34 View Figs 34–39 ); surstylus straight, narrowed apically, with small medi- an emargination. Aedeagus with broad tip in lateral view ( Fig. 7 View Figs 7–15 ). Gonite stout at base with slender tip in lateral view ( Fig. 16 View Figs 16–24 ).

NOTE. The species resembles E. attica in yellow coloration of legs; it is the only species with thin and curved surstyli in dorsal view; this character is clearly

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DISRTIBUTION. Russia: Astrakhan (incl. Krivosheina [2010]), Khakassia. — Palearctic: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, China, Jordan, Mongolia,

Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan (incl. Wirth [1975]; Krivosheina [1986]; Mathis & Zatwarnicki [1995]; Hu & Yang [2002]; Beschovski [2009]); Armenia (first record), Kyrgyzstan (first record).

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Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium

ZMUM

Zoological Museum, University of Amoy

ZISP

Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Ephydridae

Genus

Ephydra

Loc

Ephydra afghanica Dahl, 1961

Krivosheina, M. G. & Ozerov, A. L. 2021
2021
Loc

afghanica

Dahl R. G. 1961: 87
1961
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