Eudorylas zermattensis (Becker, 1897)

Motamedinia, Behnam, Skevington, Jeffrey Hunter & Kelso, Scott, 2020, Revision of Eudorylas Aczel, 1940 (Diptera, Pipunculidae) in the Middle East, with the description of four new species, Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 53609-53609 : 53609

Eudorylas zermattensis (Becker, 1897)

Pipunculus zermattensis Becker, 1897: 77.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: JSS52157 ; recordedBy: M. Zardouei; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Eudorylaszermattensis; Location: country: Iran; stateProvince: Kermanshah; locality: Sarpolezahab ; decimalLatitude: 34.466667; decimalLongitude: 45.816667; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2016-09-07; Record Level: institutionCode: CNC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: JSS52158 ; recordedBy: M. Zardouei; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Eudorylaszermattensis; Location: country: Iran; stateProvince: Kermanshah; locality: Sarpolezahab ; decimalLatitude: 34.466667; decimalLongitude: 45.816667; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2016-09-07; Record Level: institutionCode: CNC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: JSS52162 ; recordedBy: M. Zardouei; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; associatedSequences: GB: MN549662; Taxon: scientificName: Eudorylaszermattensis; Location: country: Iran; stateProvince: Kermanshah; locality: Sarpolezahab ; decimalLatitude: 34.466667; decimalLongitude: 45.816667; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2016-09-07; Record Level: institutionCode: CNC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: JSS52210 ; recordedBy: E. Gilasian; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Eudorylaszermattensis; Location: country: Iran; stateProvince: Tehran; locality: Tehran ; decimalLatitude: 35.783333; decimalLongitude: 51.4; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2010-05-01; Record Level: institutionCode: CNC Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: JSS52159 ; recordedBy: M. Zardouei; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: scientificName: Eudorylaszermattensis; Location: country: Iran; stateProvince: Kermanshah; locality: Sarpolezahab ; decimalLatitude: 34.466667; decimalLongitude: 45.816667; Event: samplingProtocol: Malaise trap; eventDate: 2016-09-07; Record Level: institutionCode: CNC

Diagnosis

This species can be recognised by ovate surstyli in ground shape, longer than wide in dorsal view (Fig. 20 B), right surstylus with small projection towards left surstylus (Fig. 20 B); gonopods unequal, right higher than left one in ventral view (Fig. 20 C); phallic guide medially with small bulge and apically with hook-like projection towards subepandrial sclerite in lateral view (Fig. 20 E).

Distribution

Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Uzbekistan, former Yugoslavia ( Kehlmaier 2005a, Kehlmaier et al. 2019, Skevington 2020) (Fig. 12 ).

Notes

Intraspecific distances of E. zermattensis specimens range from 0.0-0.71%.

Figures

Figure 12. Eudorylas species distribution in the Middle East.

Figure 20. Male genitalia of Eudorylas zermattensis (JSS 52162) (A) in dorsal view; (B) surstyli in dorsal view; (C) in ventral view; (D) ejaculatory apodeme; (E, F) in lateral view.