Ephydra attica Becker, 1896

Krivosheina, M. G. & Ozerov, A. L., 2021, A review of the shore-fly genus Ephydra Fallén, 1810 (Diptera: Ephydridae) of Russia, Russian Entomological Journal 30 (3), pp. 345-360 : 350

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https://doi.org/ 10.15298/rusentj.30.3.15

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scientific name

Ephydra attica Becker, 1896
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Ephydra attica Becker, 1896 View in CoL

Figs 8 View Figs 7–15 , 17 View Figs 16–24 , 26 View Figs 25–30 , 35 View Figs 34–39 .

attica Becker, 1896: 222 View in CoL ( Ephydra View in CoL ). Type-locality: Athens ( Greece).

MATERIAL. Astrakhan’ Oblast: Lake Baskunchak (48.193°N 46.813°E), 29.IV–4. V .2010 , K.P. Tomkovich (38 ♂♂, ZMUM); same place, 17. VI .2003 GoogleMaps , A. Ovchinnikov (3 ♂♂, ZISP); Kharabali   GoogleMaps (47.393°N, 47.248°E), salt lake, 4. VI .2009 GoogleMaps , P. Mel’nik (6 ♂♂, ZMUM); Crimea: Kerch   GoogleMaps env. (45.2ºN 36.1ºE), 26.IV.2014, N. Vikhrev (1 ♂, ZMUM); North Ossetia – Alania: Sukhotskoe (43.674ºN 44.442ºE), 30 km SW of Mozdok GoogleMaps , 3. VIII .1988 GoogleMaps , A. Ozerov (5 ♂♂, ZMUM); Stavropol’ Krai: Stavropol’ (45.045ºN 41.973ºE), 5. V .1909 , B. Uvarov (1 ♂, ZISP).

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL. Azerbaijan: Alekseevka [now Dashtatyuk (38.686ºN 48.748ºE), 12 km SW of Lankaran, 25.VIII.1932, D. Znoyko (1 ♂, ZISP); Kazakhstan: Almaty env. (43.283ºN 76.906ºE), 28.VI.1944, A. D’yakonov (1 ♂, ZISP); Morocco: Qued Tensift (31.726ºN 8.326ºW), 21.III. and 25.III.2009, N. Vikhrev (2 ♂♂, ZMUM); Tadjikistan: Tigrovaya balka Nature Reserve (ca. 37.351ºN 68.485ºE), Dzhilikul’ env., 17.IV.1988, N. Krivosheina (1 ♂, ZMUM); Turkey: Dilek Milli Park (ca. 37.66ºN 27.14ºE), 12.XII.2006, N. Vikhrev (1 ♂, ZMUM); Samandag env. (36.089ºN 35.975ºE), 14–16.IV.2010, N. Vikhrev (1 ♂, ZMUM); Kopru (37.075ºN 31.232ºE), 10.IX.2009, N. Vikhrev (1 ♂, ZMUM); Uzbekistan: Aral Sea, Syr-Dar’inskaya Distr., 30.V.1928, N. Olenev, V. Popov (6 ♂♂, ZISP). GoogleMaps

DESCRIPTION. Head golden or silvery-grey-bluish pollinose except metallic shining frontal vitta and upper face; fronto-orbital plate grey pollinose. 3–4 long fronto-orbital setae, 3 interfrontal setae thin and short, anterior seta strongest, 1/3 as long as ocellar. Postocular setae short and thin. Palpus yellow. Antenna blackish, greyish dusted; arista pectinate on dorsal surface on 2/3. Gena and parafacial grey dusted.

Thorax black, grey pollinose. Scutum grey pollinose, subshining with greenish tinge. Acrostichals setulose in many irregular rows, intra-alars absent.

Legs. Femora from yellow to black, grey dusted; tibiae and tarsi yellow, darkened dorsally.

Abdomen black, grey pollinose, subshining with bluish tinge. Tergite 5 about to 1.5–2 times as long as tergite 4. Male genitalia large, as long as tergites 4+5. Epandrium round-oval in dorsal (posterior) view ( Fig. 26 View Figs 25–30 ), a little wider near base of surstyli; surstyli straight and widened at apex, parallel-sided apically, with many relatively long perpendicular hairs. Epandrium parallel-sided in lateral view ( Fig. 35 View Figs 34–39 ); surstylus straight, broad, pointed apically. Aedeagus with round tip in lateral view ( Fig. 8 View Figs 7–15 ). Gonite stout at base with round tip in lateral view, subapical process of moderate length ( Fig. 17 View Figs 16–24 ).

NOTE. The species resembles E. afghanica in yellow coloration of legs in some specimens, but differs in the shape of surstyli which are widened apically in dorsal view and covered with setae. The specimens with dark tibiae may be separated from E. macellaria by the presence of long setae on surstyli; this character is clearly visible even in dry specimens.

DISRTIBUTION. Russia: Astrakhan Oblast (incl. Krivosheina [2010]), Crimea (incl. Krivosheina [2014]), North Ossetia – Alania, Orenburg Oblast [ Shayhutdinova, Krivosheina, 2020], Stavropol’ Krai. — Palearctic: Algeria, Bulgaria, Canary Islands, Greece, Egypt,

Turkmenistan [ Wirth, 1975; Mathis & Zatwarnicki, 1995; El-Hawagry et al., 2018; Krivosheina, 2010]; Azerbaijan (first record), Kazakhstan (first record), Morocco (first record), Tadjikistan (first record), Turkey (first record), Uzbekistan (first record).

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Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium

ZMUM

Zoological Museum, University of Amoy

VI

Mykotektet, National Veterinary Institute

ZISP

Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Ephydridae

Genus

Ephydra

Loc

Ephydra attica Becker, 1896

Krivosheina, M. G. & Ozerov, A. L. 2021
2021
Loc

attica

Becker Th. 1896: 222
1896
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