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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Ephydra afghanica Dahl, 1961
Krivosheina, M. G. & Ozerov, A. L. 2021 |
afghanica
Dahl R. G. 1961: 87 |