Apodacra firanensis Verves et Khrokalo, 2020

Verves, Yu. G., 2020, Review Of Subtribe Apodacrina (Diptera, Sarcophagidae) Of Middle East With Descriptions Of Ten New Species, Zoodiversity 54 (3), pp. 183-204 : 186-188

Apodacra firanensis Verves et Khrokalo , sp. n. ( fig. 5)

Material. Type. Holotype: {: Egypt: Sinai, Firan , 9.04.1973, leg. A. Freidberg. Deposited in TAU.

D i f f e r e n t i a l d i a g n o s i s: Similar to A. dispar Villeneuve, 1916 by the structure of hind tarsi and head proportions, differing by the absence of vte, undeveloped oral setae, elongate postpedicel, yellow fore tarsi and partial reduction of abdominal pattern.

M a l e. Body length 5.0 mm. — Head ( figs 5, b–d). Head densely silvery white pollinose, frontal vitta light yellow, almost without dusting, occiput and gena light grey pollinose, antenna and palp yellow, apex of arista fuscous. Frons at vertex 0.36×, at level of antennal base 0.35× head-width. Frontal vitta 1.5× widened backwards, at level of fore orb equal in length to parafrontalia. Postpedicel 3,7× as long as pedicel, arista widened in basal 2/3. Parafacialia at level of antennal base 0.22×, gena 0.11× eye-height. Palp at apex widened. oc fine, seta-like; vte absent; orb 1+2–3, medium long; fr 7–8, long and fine; parafrontalia and parafacialia with microscopic light setae; gena with erect yellow setae; only one pair of vi present; oral setae absent. — Thorax ( fig. 5, a) covered with long black setae, light grey pollinose, longitudinal stripes of mesonotum poorly developed; tip of scutellum yellowish; acr 0+1; dc 0+1; ia 1+1; pprn 2; npl 2 (with several setulae); kepst 1+1. Scutellum with 3 pairs of long and strong marg; ds seta-like. — Wing ( figs 5 a, f) hyaline. Petiolus of vein R 4+5 0.5× as long as r-m, vein R 4+5 with one basal seta, vein M right-angled, dm-cu s -like curved. — Legs ( figs 5, a, e). All femora grey pollinose, in distal parts yellow, tibia yellow, t 1 and t 3 exteriorly grey pollinose, fore tarsi yellow, other tarsi entirely dark brown. First tarsomere of hind tarsus widened, with ctenidium of short and thick ventral spine-like setae. t 2 with one ad. — Abdomen ( fig. 5, f) densely light yellowish grey pollinose, pattern partly reduced; 1+2 nd tergite anteriorly fuscous; 3 rd tergite with a mark of dark median spot in hind 0.4 and paired shining yellowish brown lateral stripes; 4 th tergite in hind 0.3 with black median spot and paired lateral stripes, the distance between spot and stripes more than diameter of spot; 5 th tergite with black median spot in hind 0.5 and paired lateral stripes in hind 0.6–0.7; 6 th tergite with small shining black median spot. 1+2 nd and 3 rd abdominal tergites without medio-marginal setae. Terminalia black, light pollinose.

F e m a l e. Unknown.

Etymology: The species epithet is formed from the name of the type locality, Firan.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Palaearctic: Asia: Egypt (Sinai).