Eudorylas falcatus (Hardy, 1949)

FÖLDVÁRI, MIHÁLY, 2013, Taxonomic revision of the Afrotropical species of the tribe Eudorylini (Diptera, Pipunculidae), Zootaxa 3656 (1), pp. 1-121 : 61-63

Eudorylas falcatus (Hardy, 1949)

( Fig. 40G )

Dorilas (Eudorylas) falcatus Hardy 1949 a: 33 .

Diagnosis: Femora dark brown, first four with shining narrow line ventrally; ovipositor curved, base considerably elongated. Only the female HT is known.

Type material: Ghana: 1♀, HT, Obuasi, Ashanti, W.Africa, 31.VII.1907, Dr. W.M. Graham, 1908-245, [handwritten] caught in bushpath ( BMNH) .

Female

Head. Third antennal segment acuminate; dark brown. Face and frons completely silvery pollinose. Occiput, upper half entirely brown, lower half greyish pollinose.

Thorax. Humeri yellow. Mesonotum (viewed obliquely from front) brownish pollinose, more silvery along anterior margin; silvery pollinose from the side. Scutellum brownish pollinose, with numerous fine whitish hairs, as long as width of t3 at base. Dorsocentral hairs uncertain. Halter: base of stem and apical part of knob dark brown, otherwise yellow-brown.

Legs. Trochanters and base of femora brown, femora dark brown, first four with shining narrow line ventrally, knees, tibiae and tarsal segments yellow, last segment brown. Ventroapical row of 8–9 strong, short, black spines on first four femora; 9–10 strong black teeth on 3rd femur, longer than those on other femora. Subapical (distal) spines on first four tibiae absent. No anteromedial hairs on 3rd tibia. Hind trochanter with 6–8 longer white hairs on ventral side. Pulvilli (broad, especially on 1st four legs) 1.5–2 times longer than last tarsal segment.

Wing. Fourth costal section 0.7 times as long as third costal section. Cross-vein R-M at 1/3 of discal cell. Pterostigma almost fully coloured (5/6). Hairs on tegula missing.

Abdomen. Viewed obliquely from front T1,2 greyish pollinose, T3–5 brownish pollinose in the middle (laterally grey), sides greyish pollinose except narrow anterior line on each tergite. Hairs dispersed, whitish. 8–10 strong, black lateral spines on first tergite in a patch. Ovipositor ( Fig. 40G ) curved, base considerably elongated.

Male—Unknown.

Distribution – Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana.

Figures

FIGURE 40. Female ovipositors.—A–B: Eudorylas aethiopicus, C–D: Eudorylas bredoi, E: Clistoabdominalis lomholdti, F: Clistoabdominalis nitidifrons, G: Eudorylas falcatus, H–I: Eudorylas flexus, J: Clistoabdominalis crassus, K: Eudorylas setiformis, L: Clistoabdominalis lomholdti, M: Dasydorylas sordidatus, N–O: Eudorylas mikenensis, P–Q: Eudorylas decorus, R–S: Eudorylas galeatus, T: Eudorylas sinuosus, U: Eudorylas wittei, V–W: Dasydorylas evanidus. Scale bar: 0.5 mm