Morellia (M.) cashmirana van Emden, 1965

Pamplona, Denise, Nihei, Silvio S., Couri, Márcia S. & Pont, Adrian C., 2016, Taxonomy of Morellia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Muscidae): revision of the subgenera Morellia s. str. and Parapyrellia Townsend, Zootaxa 4163 (1), pp. 1-110 : 28-30

8. Morellia (M.) cashmirana van Emden, 1965 , stat. nov.

( Figs 39–43)

Morellia hortorum ssp. cashmirana van Emden, 1965: 104 (the name is erroneously spelled " cashmiranas " at the head of the description, but everywhere else as " cashmirana "). Type locality: INDIA, Kashmir : Gulmarg. Holotype Ƌ, BMNH (seen).

Remark. Like M. tibetana , this species was originally described as a subspecies of M. hortorum . It is raised to species rank here.

Redescription. Male. Similar to M. hortorum , differing as follows:

Gena with silver pruinosity; palpus black; lower calypter brown and upper calypter brownish and on outer half white and opaque; wing with faint spot on humeral cross-vein and at base of br cell; abdomen black with weak grey pruinosity. Katepimeron bare. Fore tibia with 1 weak seta on apical third and no strong and long setae; mid femur without ventral setae and with about 10 stronger posterior to posterodorsal preapical setae; mid tibia with an anterodorsal comb-like ctenidium of very short spines on basal third and setulae, longer apicad, posterior ones longer; hind femur with few long posteroventral setulae on apical fourth; hind tibia, in general, with fine setae, with a posterodorsal row on apical two-thirds and with 1 long and fine seta on apical third, with 3 ventral setae on middle third similar to the anteroventrals, without anterodorsal and posterodorsal preapical setae and with 1 posteroventral apical seta; posterior margin of sternite 5 concave and with few setae on membrane ( Fig. 39).

Terminalia. Ventral surface of cercal plate with 2 strong spines; surstylus with 4 small setae on apical half ( Figs 40–42); basiphallus long; aedeagus bare; gonopod with 2 long and strong setae on basal third and 2 small setae apically; paramere with some setae apically and 1 seta on middle third ( Fig. 43).

Female. Unknown.

Material examined. INDIA: Kashmir, Gulmarg, 8,500 feet, summer 1913, F. W. Thomson, holotype Ƌ ( BMNH), and 1 Ƌ with the same label data as holotype ( BMNH) .

Distribution. ORIENTAL: India (Kashmir), Pakistan.