Otites Latreille 1804

Morgulis, Elizabeth, 2015, Two peculiar new species of Otites Latreille 1804 (Diptera: Ulidiidae) with reduced phallus, Zootaxa 3949 (4), pp. 567-574 : 568

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3949.4.6

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1FB79BE5-A52A-4AED-AE5E-153997010CFF

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6095828

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D60D2C-350F-1028-1F9F-FD943F08F930

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scientific name

Otites Latreille 1804
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Genus Otites Latreille 1804 View in CoL View at ENA

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

Diagnosis. This genus differs from other Otitini in the following combination of characters: pedicel about as high as long; 1st flagellomere elliptic to rounded; epiphallic sclerite present; lateral surstylus without prensisetae.

Redescription. Head: Structure: Usually 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. Arista with short hairs. Palpus elongate, spatulate to slightly oblanceolate, mostly as long as antenna, excluding arista. Color and vestiture: Frons with matt orange to brown median 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: 1 medial and 1 lateral vertical seta present; 1 ocellar, 1 postocellar, and 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.

Thorax: Color and vestiture: Scutum mostly brown to black with silvery-gray microtrichia, usually with 1 medial and 2 lateral darker longitudinal stripes with less or no microtrichia, anterior and posterior to transverse suture. 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 usually slightly gray microtrichose.

Wing: Usually with brown to black pattern consisting of spots or bands. Venation: Vein R1 setulose dorsally, in most species only along pterostigma, in some species along entire length. Vein Cu2 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: 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.

Comment. The two new species differ from other Otites species in the combination of yellowish-hyaline wing without pattern, and short and bare phallus.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Ulidiidae

Loc

Otites Latreille 1804

Morgulis, Elizabeth 2015
2015
Loc

Otites

Latreille 1805: 383
Latreille 1805: 383
Latreille 1804: 196
Latreille 1804: 196
1804
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