Efflatouniella legaensis, Mohammad, Salwa K. & Badrawy, Haitham B. M., 2011

Mohammad, Salwa K. & Badrawy, Haitham B. M., 2011, Revision of Efflatouniella Kröber, 1927 (Diptera: Therevidae), Zootaxa 2926, pp. 55-60 : 57-58

Efflatouniella legaensis sp. nov.

( Figs. 13–16 )

Type locality. (holotype) W. El-Lega (S. Sinai) June–Sep. 1943 (1 male), Egypt ( CUC).

Diagnosis. Frons with dark furrow; antenna with scape slender, style two segmented; four notopleural macrosetae; wing maculated, vein C ending at CuA2, medial veins reaching wing margin, cell r4 at least three times as long as wide at apex; abdomen brownish grey with triangular greyish lateral spots at posterior margins of tergites 2–5; gonocoxite with reduced gonostylus, apical part of aedeagus not bifid.

Discription. Length: (male) body 3.5 mm, wing 3.0 mm.

Male. Very small sized (3.5 mm), grey-brownish species. Head greyish with a concave occiput; frons with narrow dark furrow at center; antennae pale yellow with scape elongate and slender, style two segmented; palpus pale greyish. Thorax pale greyish with two brownish median thick stripes, two thin opaque lateral stripes and two distinctly brownish spot at outer margin, four notopleural setae; wings maculate with veins light brown but darker apically, vein C ending at CuA2, medial veins (M1, M2 & M3) reaching wing margin, cell r4 at least three times as long as wide at apex; haltere with knob dark brownish, stem yellowish; legs pale brownish with extreme apices of tibiae blackish, fore femur pale brown and tarsi of fore leg blackish. Abdomen short, conical and brownish grey with triangular greyish lateral spots at posterior margins of tergites 2–5. Gonocoxite with reduced gonostylus, apical part of aedeagus with one point.

Female. Unkown.

Local distribution. Sinai.

Geographical distribution. Egypt.

Specimens examined. Holotype: EGYPT: W. El-Lega (S. Sinai) [latitude and longitude coordinates, 28.3°– 33.5°] June–Sep. 1943 (1 male) (CUC).

Paratype: EGYPT: W. El-Lega (S. Sinai) June–Sep. 1943 (1 male) (ASUC).

Etymology. This species is named after the name of the Wadi (W. El-Lega) where all of the specimens have been collected.

Figures

FIGURES 9 – 20. Male terminalia. 9 – 12. E. aegyptiaca Kröber. 9. gonocoxite, ventral view. 10. aedeagus, lateral view. 11. aedeagus, ventral view. 12. left gonocoxite with gonostylus, ventral view. 13 – 16. E. legaensis sp. nov. 13. gonocoxite, ventral view. 14. aedeagus, lateral view. 15. aedeagus, ventral view. 16. right gonocoxite with gonostylus, dorsal view. 17 – 20. E. sinatica sp. nov. 17. gonocoxite with aedeagus, ventral view. 10. aedeagus, lateral view. 11. aedeagus, ventral view. 12. left gonocoxite with gonostylus, ventral view. Abbreviations: dap. dorsal apodeme, dp. distiphalus, eap. ejaculatory apodeme, gc. gonocoxite, gs. gonostylus, h. hypandrium, pap. gonocoxal apodeme, vap. ventral apodeme.