Apodacra dispar Villeneuve, 1916

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

Apodacra dispar Villeneuve, 1916 ( figs 3–4 )

Apodacra dispar Villeneuve, 1916: 507 ; Holstein & Rudzinsky, 1994: 114 (habits, faunistics); Pape, 1988: 8 (revision of type); Piwczyński et al., 2017: 53, 57 (in dendrograms); Szpila, 2010: 23 (morphology of 1 st instar larva); Verves et al., 2015: 267; 2017: 133 (faunistics); Verves & Khrokalo, 2014: 12 (habits, faunistics); 2018 (Supplementary Material): 20 (faunistics); Zerova et al., 2006: 96 (in key); Zumpt, 1961: 117 (revision of type and faunistics).

Apodacra rondaniella Venturi, 1957: 157 ; 1960: 35 (in key); Pape, 1988: 8 (type revised); 38 (taxonomy, faunistics); Verves, 1986: 68 (catalog).

Apodacra cyprica: Séguy, 1941: 251 (redescription and faunistics); misidentification, not cyprica Rondani, 1859 .

Material. Israel: 1}, Akko , 4.10.1970, leg. A. Freidberg ( TAU). 1}, Herzliyya Beach, 12.10.1986, on dead fish, leg. A. Freidberg ( TAU). 1}, W. Faria, 1.06.1971, leg. J. Kugler ( TAU). 1 {, Dunes Ashqelon, Coakepst Plain, 25.04.1954, leg. O. Theodor ( TAU). 1 {, Mizpe Shalem Palms, South 9.04.1986, leg. A. Shlagman ( TAU). 1}, Nahal Bsor, 19.07.1984, leg. F. Kaplan. 1 {, Sede Boqer , 2.06.1953, leg. O. Theodor ( TAU). 1}, Ein Aqev, 8.08.1977, leg. A. Freidberg ( TAU). 1}, Farael, 28.04.1976, leg. M. Kaplan ( TAU). 1}, Ramon, 4.08.1970, leg. J. Kugler ( TAU). 1 {, Rt. 171, 3 km W of Bor Loz, 8.05.2003, leg. A. Freidberg ( TAU) .

Distribution: Palaearctic: Europe: Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Czech Republic (Moravia), Ukraine; Asia: Israel *, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan. Afrotropical: Angola, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe.

Habits: Adult flies prefer sandy areas. Larvae were found in a dead specimen of the grasshopper Eyprepocnemis plorans (Charpentier) (Holstein & Rudzinski, 1994) .

Figures

Figs 3–4. Apodacra dispar Vill.: 3 (male): a — habitus in lateral view; b — head in profile; c — head in frontal view; d — head in dorsal view; e — hind leg in anterior view; f — wing; g — abdomen in dorsal view; h — label. 4 (female): a — habitus in lateral view; b — abdomen in dorsal view; c— head in profile; d — head in frontal view; e — head in dorsal view; f — wing; g — label. Fig. 5. Apodacra firanense sp. n. (male): a — habitus in lateral view; b — head in profile; c — head in frontal view; d — head in dorsal view; e — hind legs in anterior view; f — wing & abdomen in dorsal view; g — label.