Eudorylas aethiopicus (Hardy, 1949)

FÖLDVÁRI, MIHÁLY, 2013, Taxonomic revision of the Afrotropical species of the tribe Eudorylini (Diptera, Pipunculidae), Zootaxa 3656 (1), pp. 1-121 : 38-40

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3656.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6486721

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scientific name

Eudorylas aethiopicus (Hardy, 1949)
status

 

Eudorylas aethiopicus (Hardy, 1949) View in CoL

( Figs 12D–I View FIGURE 12 , 40A–B View FIGURE 40 )

Dorilas (Eudorylas) aethiopicus Hardy 1949 a: 17 View in CoL .

Diagnosis: Third antennal segment long acuminate. ST8 very large; thick hairs at base of SS (6 left, 3 right); gonopods’ apical part with little “holes”, outer edges with zigzag pattern; hypandrium with two long lobes; phallic guide shorter than GP, rounded at tip. In ventral view both SS with an edge along middle line.

Type material: Kenya: 1♂, HT, H J A Turner, Naivasha , 7 [July] 37; Pres. By Comm. Inst. Ent. B.M. 1953-343 ( BMNH) ; 1♂, PT, same data as HT ( USNM) . South Africa: 1♀, AT, Cape Province: Sommerset East, October 1930; S.W. Africa, RE. Turner Brit. Mus. 1930-561 ( BMNH) .

Male

Head. Third antennal segment long acuminate, densely pubescent; brown. Face silvery pollinose. Frons silvery pollinose; eyes touching for distance equal to 3 times ocellar triangle. Occiput silver pollinose, black behind the ocellar triangle.

Thorax. Humeri pale brown. Mesonotum (viewed obliquely from front) brownish pollinose, along anterior margin more silvery; distinctly greyish pollinose from the side. Scutellum greyish-brown pollinose, distinct 4–5 pairs of pale hairs. Dorsocentral hairs very weakly developed. Halter yellow-brown, stem paler.

Legs. Trochanters and base of femora dark brown, femora black with distal 1/5 yellow (f1,2 silvery pollinose, f3 shining black on pv surface), knees yellow, tibiae yellow. Tarsal segments yellow, last segment dark brown. Ventroapical row of 4–8 short, dark spines on first four femora; some very weakly developed hairs on 3rd femur. Subapical (distal) spines on first four tibiae present. No anteromedial hairs on 3rd tibia. Hind trochanter finely pubescent, without hairs or spines on ventral side. Last tarsal segment 1.5 times longer than pulvilli.Wing. Fourth costal section 1.5 times as long as third costal section. Cross-vein R-M at 2/5 of discal cell. Distal ¾ of pterostigma coloured. No hairs on tegula.

Abdomen. Viewed obliquely from front tergites brownish pollinose, laterally more silvery, hind margins more subshining black, sides greyish pollinose. Hairs dispersed, distinct, pale, longest on ST8. No lateral spines on first tergite. Postabdomen in dorsal view: corners of S7 and EP visible; T5 1.1 times as long as ST8. Genitalia without dissection: postabdomen black with grey pollinosity; EP and SS yellow; SS very asymmetrical, protruding from abdomen; no membranous area.

Genitalia. Surstyli asymmetrical, IS longer; epandrium wide but smaller than ST8; ST8 very large ( Fig. 12E View FIGURE 12 ). Borders of SES uncertain, some thicker hairs at base of SS (6 left, 3 right); gonopods flattened, apical part with little “holes”, outer edges with zigzag pattern; hypandrium with two long lobes, connected to EP; phallic guide shorter than GP, rounded at tip ( Fig. 12I View FIGURE 12 ); phallus uncertain; ejaculatory apodeme short, thick, widening at tip; sperm pump long, thick tube-like, S-shaped ( Fig. 12G View FIGURE 12 ). In ventral view both SS with an edge along middle line.

Female (AT - no head)

As male except for the following characters. Trochanter and base of femur yellowish brown. Pulvilli and claws about 1.5 times as long as last tarsal segment. Subapical (distal) spines distinct on first four tibiae. Cross-vein R-M just beyond 1/3 of discal cell, pterostigma fully coloured. Halter dark brown, stem pale. Abdominal tergites brownish pollinose, 1/3 to 1/5 of hind margins silvery pollinose. Two dark spines on T1. Female ovipositor ( Figs 40A–B View FIGURE 40 ) with two protuberances on the inner surface of the base.

Remarks —The drawing in Hardy 1959 a: 398 is not E. aethiopicus , but resembles E. flexus .

Distribution— Kenya, South Africa.

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Pipunculidae

Genus

Eudorylas

Loc

Eudorylas aethiopicus (Hardy, 1949)

FÖLDVÁRI, MIHÁLY 2013
2013
Loc

Dorilas (Eudorylas) aethiopicus

Hardy, D. E. 1949: 17
1949
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