Review of the genus Sphenometopa Townsend, 1908 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) of the Middle East
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Review of the genus Sphenometopa Townsend, 1908 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) of the Middle East Yuriy G. Verves 1
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Liudmyla A. Khrokalo 2
Received: 8 August 2019 / Accepted: 10 January 2020 # Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences 2020
Abstract This paper is based on a revision of recent collections (about 100 specimens) housed at Tel Aviv University and the Natural History Museum (London). Short characteristics of the genus Sphenometopa Townsend, 1908 and the monotypic subtribe Sphenometopiina, descriptions of three new species, redescription of Sphenometopa (Euaraba) fastuosa (Meigen, 1824) based on the Middle Eastern specimens, key and comments of ten Middle Eastern species and a list of all 50 species are given. Species of the genus are generally distributed in the Palaearctic, mainly in its mountainous eastern part, and several species are known from the Nearctic, Oriental and Afrotropical Regions. Sphenometopa (E.) proxima Verves & Khrokalo, sp. n. is described from Israel and Syria, and both S. (Xantharaba) freidbergi Verves & Khrokalo, sp. n. and S. (X.) theodori Verves & Khrokalo, sp. n. – from Israel. Three species (S. bifasciata, S. elegans, S. steini) are firstly recorded for Israel, and S. claripennis is firstly recorded for Syria and Iran. As a result, the genus Sphenometopa includes seven subgenera [Arabiopsis – 3; Asiaraba – 10; Euaraba – 24; Sahararaba – 1; Sphenometopa (s. str.) – 2; Tarsaraba – 4, and Xantharaba – 5 species], and 50 species. Keywords Sphenometopa . New species . Key to species . Middle East
Introduction
Materials and methods
The subtribe Sphenometopina was established by Verves (1989). A single genus of this subtribe, Sphenometopa Townsend, 1908, is widely distributed in the Palaearctic, mainly in its mountainous eastern part, and several species are known from Nearctic, Oriental and Afrotropical Regions. The characteristics of this genus, a key to species, its distribution and ecological traits were given by Rohdendorf (1967, 1971, 1975), with subsequent additions and corrections by Fan (1992), Povolný and Verves (1997), Verves (1986, 1982, 1984, 1990), and Verves and Khrokalo (2006).
This article is based on a revision of recent materials (about 100 dry pinned and labeled specimens) from Israel and other Middle Eastern countries, which were sent to us for study by Prof. A. Freidberg (Tel Aviv University, Israel, TAU) and Mr. N. Wyatt (Natural History Museum, London, NHMUK). The majority of the material has been returned to those institutions, but some specimens were deposited in the private collection of Prof. Y. Verves and Dr. L. Khrokalo, Kyiv, Ukraine (PCV). Nomenclature of morphological features follows Merz and Haenni (2000) with subsequent modifications and generalisations by Verves and Khrokalo (2006, 2018). All photos were taken by Prof. K. Szpila (Instytut Ekologii i Ochrony Srodowiska, Torun, Poland). New state records are marked with an asterisk (*) after country name.
* Yuriy G. Verves [email protected] 1
Institute for Evolution
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