Redescription of Sphecapatoclea excisa Villeneuve, 1909 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)
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Redescription of Sphecapatoclea excisa Villeneuve, 1909 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae). / Szpila, Krzysztof; Wyborska, Dominika; Bystrowski, Cezary; Pape, Thomas.
In: Zootaxa, Vol. 4728, No. 1, 2020, p. 110-122.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Redescription of Sphecapatoclea excisa Villeneuve, 1909 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)
AU - Szpila, Krzysztof
AU - Wyborska, Dominika
AU - Bystrowski, Cezary
AU - Pape, Thomas
N1 - Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2020 Magnolia Press
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Sphecapatoclea excisa Villeneuve, 1909, the type species of the Palaearctic genus Sphecapatoclea Villeneuve, 1909, is redescribed based on a female syntype and on material from Makhtesh Ramon National Park, Israel, and its first instar larva is described for the first time. The species is sexually dimorphic, with much darker adult males. The male genital apparatus is unique by its compressed and sclerotised epiphallus. The morphology of the first instar larva is in accordance with the recently suggested position of the genus Sphecapatoclea in the Old World clade of the “lower” Miltogramminae. Two COI mini-barcodes are provided for S. excisa, and molecular data are in agreement with sequences for Sphecapatoclea spp. available in GenBank. Morphology supports a broad concept of the genus, as S. excisa presents a mixture of character states traditionally used to diagnose either Sphecapatoclea (s. str.) or Parthomyia Rohdendorf, 1925. Available morphological keys for genera of Palaearctic Miltogramminae are compared for functionality, and possible autapomorphies from both adult and larval morphology are discussed.
AB - Sphecapatoclea excisa Villeneuve, 1909, the type species of the Palaearctic genus Sphecapatoclea Villeneuve, 1909, is redescribed based on a female syntype and on material from Makhtesh Ramon National Park, Israel, and its first instar larva is described for the first time. The species is sexually dimorphic, with much darker adult males. The male genital apparatus is unique by its compressed and sclerotised epiphallus. The morphology of the first instar larva is in accordance with the recently suggested position of the genus Sphecapatoclea in the Old World clade of the “lower” Miltogramminae. Two COI mini-barcodes are provided for S. excisa, and molecular data are in agreement with sequences for Sphecapatoclea spp. available in GenBank. Morphology supports a broad concept of the genus, as S. excisa presents a mixture of character states traditionally used to diagnose either Sphecapatoclea (s. str.) or Parthomyia Rohdendorf, 1925. Available morphological keys for genera of Palaearctic Miltogramminae are compared for functionality, and possible autapomorphies from both adult and larval morphology are discussed.
KW - DNA mini-barcode
KW - First instar larva
KW - Miltogramminae
KW - Morphology
KW - Negev Desert
KW - SEM
U2 - 10.11646/zootaxa.4728.1.5
DO - 10.11646/zootaxa.4728.1.5
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 32230586
AN - SCOPUS:85078636787
VL - 4728
SP - 110
EP - 122
JO - Zootaxa
JF - Zootaxa
SN - 1175-5326
IS - 1
ER -
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