Aphaniosoma incudisternum Ebejer, 2008

Ebejer, Martin J., 2023, The genus Aphaniosoma Becker, 1903 (Diptera: Chyromyidae) in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, with descriptions of new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 872, pp. 1-161 : 79-81

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2023.872.2131

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:05098E38-AB11-486E-8F28-8567DE6BC19C

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8019030

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/505487F2-B00A-FF86-FDDD-FBD108493BCE

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scientific name

Aphaniosoma incudisternum Ebejer, 2008
status

 

Aphaniosoma incudisternum Ebejer, 2008 View in CoL

Figs 44–45 View Fig View Fig

Material examined

ISRAEL • 17 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀; Dead Sea , Zomet Zohar; 31°08ʹ N, 35°21ʹ E; alt. - 338 m; 25 Mar. 2000; M.J. Ebejer leg.; on Tamarix sp. ; MJE GoogleMaps 5 ♂♂; same collection data as for preceeding; SMNHTAU GoogleMaps 2 ♂♂, preserved in glycerine; same collection data as for preceding; MJE 2 ♂♂; N. Arava valley ; 30°46ʹ N, 35°14ʹ E; 25 Mar. 2000; M.J. Ebejer leg.; on Tamarix and chenopods; MJE GoogleMaps .

Remarks

A yellow species ( Fig. 44 View Fig ) with pale brown scutal vittae and bands on the abdominal tergites; mediotergite dark. The frons has a pair of longer setae in front of the anterior ocellus. It is one of the most difficult species to identify because of the pale structures of the male hypopygium (only the postgonite dark) ( Fig. 45 View Fig ), their small size and the ease with which maceration destroys some diagnostic features. It is one of the four species described from the United Arab Emirates. Identification requires examination of the dissected male abdomen where the easiest feature to appreciate is the structure of abdominal sternites 3–5 ( Ebejer 2008: 687, fig. 9).

Distribution

United Arab Emirates ( Ebejer 2008). New record for Israel.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Chyromyidae

Genus

Aphaniosoma

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