Senotainia (s. str.) deserta Rohdendorf, 1935

Verves, Yuriy G. & Khrokalo, Liudmyla, 2021, Review of the genus Senotainia Macquart, 1846 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) of the Middle East, Journal of Natural History 54 (37 - 38), pp. 2489-2512 : 2496-2497

Senotainia (s. str.) deserta Rohdendorf, 1935 (Figure 4 (a-m))

Senotainia deserta Rohdendorf, 1935: 86 .

Senotainia deserta: Charykuliev 1962: 129 (habits); Fan 1992: 589 (in key); Fan and Pape 1996: 242 (faunistics); KoÇak and Kemal 2015: 351 (faunistics); Mader 2013: 51 (habits); Minoranskiy 1971: 71 (habits); Myartzeva 1972b: 79 (habits); Pape 1996: 136 (catalogue); Rohdendorf 1970: 633 (in key); Rohdendorf and Verves 1980: 450 (faunistics); Szpila 2010: 59, 78 (morphology of 1st instar larva); Verves 1986: 64 (catalogue); 1990: 527 (in key); 1998: 50 (faunistics); Verves and Barták 2017b: 132 (faunistics); Verves et al. 2018: 98 (faunistics); Verves and Khrokalo 2014: 6 (habits, faunistics); 2018 (Suppl): 19 (faunistics); Xue et al. 2015: 450 (in list); Zerova et al. 2006: 94 (in key).

Senotainia mongolica Rohdendorf et Verves 1980: 453 .

Senotainia deserta aegyptiaca Rohdendorf, 1935: 86 , syn. n.

Senotainia aegyptiaca: Fan 1992: 589 (faunistics); Fan and Pape 1996: 242 (faunistics); Pape 1996: 134 (catalogue); Xue et al. 2015: 449 (in list).

Material examined

Zikhron, 8.06 .1968 , 1 ♂ (Kugler), TAU.

Distribution

Palaearctic: Middle East: Egypt, Israel *, Turkey. Ukraine, Russia (Astrakhan, North Caucasus), Kazakhstan, Middle Asia, Mongolia, China (Gansu, Neimenggu).

Habits

Very psammophilous and xerophilic species. Bred from nests of sphecid wasps Bembicinus asiaticus Gussakovskij, 1935 , Sceliphron destillatorium Illiger, 1807 , Stizus transcaspicus Radoszkowski, 1893 , Tachysphex schmiedeknechti Kohl, 1883 .

Taxonomic notes

Rohdendorf (1935) gave the frontal width as the only difference between S. deserta deserta (≤0.34 × head width) and S. deserta aegyptiaca (≈0.35 × head width). This is here considered insufficient for a separation into subspecies.