Ulidia hirsuta Morgulis and Freidberg, n. sp.
Creators: name: Morgulis, E.
name: Freidberg, A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Lonchaeidae
Ulidia
Ulidia hirsuta

description: Ulidia hirsuta Morgulis and Freidberg n. sp.
(Figs. 23, 35, 57, 80, 94, 106)
Material examined. ISRAEL: Type Material: Holotype ♂: Har Hermon: Har Hermon, 1600 m, 15.vi.2011, E. Morgulis; Paratypes: same data as holotype: A. Freidberg (1♂, 1♀), E. Morgulis (13♂, 17♀); Har Hermon [Mt. Hermon], 2100 m, 17.vi.1999, H. Ackerman (3♂, 1♀); Har Hermon [Mt. Hermon], 2000 m, 22.vi.1973, A. Freidberg (11♂, 1♀), 8.vi.1975 (14♂, 2♀), F. Kaplan (5♂, 2♀), 1.vii.1976, A. Freidberg (25♂, 5♀), 5.v.1977 (1♂), 21.vi.1982 (16♂, 11♀), 9.vi.1983 (1♀), 28.v.1985, I. Susman (1♂), 27.v.1986, A. Freidberg (8♂, 3♀), A. Shlagman (10♂, 4♀), 6.vii.1987, A. Freidberg (1♀), F. Kaplan (3♂, 1♀), 18.vii.1995, A. Freidberg (1♂); Har Hermon [Mt. Hermon], 1900 m, 27.vi.1973, D. Furth (1♂, 2♀); Har Hermon, 1800, 11.vi.2003, L. Friedman (1♂); Har Hermon [Mt. Hermon], 1700 m, 10.vi.1983, I. Nussbaum (1♂, 2♀); Har Hermon [Hermon], 1650 m, 17.v.2000, A. Freidberg (8♂, 8♀); Har Hermon [Mt. Hermon], 1600 m, 14.v.1981, A. Freidberg (1♂), 20.v.1986, A. Freidberg (3♂), 12.vi.2003, A. Freidberg (2♂), 18.v.2009, A. Freidberg (1♂); Har Hermon, 1600, 33°18.1'N 35°46.2'E, 24.v.2010, A. Freidberg (1♂); Har Hermon, 1600-1500, 33°18 'N 35°46 'E, 6.vi.2002, A. Freidberg (1♀); Har Hermon, 1500, 21.v.2002, L. Friedman (1♀)(TAUI).
The holotype is double mounted (minuten in a plastic block), and deposited in TAUI.
Paratypes will be deposited at SIZK, USNM and NHM.
Description. Head (Fig. 23): Structure: 1.02–1.14 times as high as long. Frons of same width posteriorly and at lunule level, 1.16–1.27 times as wide as long, rugulose. Eye 0.90–1.03 times as high as long. Gena 0.42–0.51 times as high as eye, posteriorly strigose. Fronto-orbital plate at antenna insertion level 0.29–0.34 times as long as eye. Color and vestiture: Head mostly black. Frons black to dark brown, sometimes with faded reddish-brown to orange median line. Orbit with fine microtrichose white line with anterolateral triangular widening. First flagellomere silvery microtrichose. Arista with microscopic rays. Setae and setulae: Medial vertical seta as long as lateral vertical seta; ocellar seta 0.78–0.95 times as long as medial vertical seta; postocellar seta 0.58–0.72 times as long as medial vertical seta; 2 orbital setae, each 0.88–0.91 times as long as medial vertical seta. Frons densely long setulose, setulae as long as ocellar seta. Vibrissal angle and parafacial with long and thin setulae. Gena and postgena long setulose, longest setulae as long as orbital setae. Palpus with long black setulae; labellum with mixed black and white long setulae.
Thorax: Color and vestiture: Subshiny black, densely shagreened. Setae and setulae: 1–2 supra-alar, 1–2 dorsocentral, 1 acrostichal, 2–3 anepisternal and 1 katepisternal setae present. Regular row of dorsocentral setulae present. Postpronotal lobe, scutum, scutellum, anepisternum and katepisternum long setulose; setulae 0.5–0.7 times as long as major setae.
Legs: Mostly black, except tarsi with 1–2 basal tarsomeres yellow. Hindfemur not widened, as wide as midfemur in both sexes.
Wing (Fig. 35): Pattern: basal-cubital cell and basal half of cubital cell brown, and apical brown spot, extending from costa at apices of cells r1, r2+3 and slightly at r4+5; otherwise, wing hyaline. Venation: Veins orangebrown. Crossvein R-M aligned slightly proximal to apex of vein R1. Ratios: Cell r4+5 0.34–0.51; vein Cu2 0.60–0.66. Calypteres yellowish. Halter base brown, stem whitish, knob orange.
Abdomen: Tergites black, shagreened and setulose.
Male terminalia: Epandrium (Fig. 57) 1.13–1.20 times as high as wide; cerci triangular, deeply separate; lateral surstylus apically pointed. Phallus with 1 caecum; caecum extending along apical half of phallus. Glans (Fig. 80) elongate, with apical widening.
Female terminalia: Aculeus 5.3–7.1 times as long as wide at widest point. Cercal unit (Fig. 94) oval, apically almost rounded, slightly pointed, with well pronounced lateral groove. Sensilla: BV apical to BD. Additional pair of lateral, short setulae present apical to BD ventrally, additional pair of short medial setulae present basal to BD ventrally and apical to BV. Spermathecae (Fig. 106) pyriform, papillose.
Measurements (mm): Body length 3.2–4.6, wing length 2.8–3.7.
Distribution. Israel.
Adult activity in Israel: May to July.
Etymology. From Latin, hirsutus, meaning hairy, referring to the coverage of this species with long and dense setae and setulae; a feminine adjective.
Diagnosis. This species differs from its congeners in the following combination of characters: long and dense setae and setulae, wing with apical spot, whitish-orange halter and the pyriform and papillose spermatheca.
Comments. This species shares two character states with U. ruficeps Becker (which is also found in Israel solely on Har Hermon): apical spot on the wing and coverage of long and dense setae and setulae. However, we do not consider the two to be particularly close species due to considerable differences in other characters.
description: Published as part of Morgulis, E. & Freidberg, A., 2014, The Ulidiini (Diptera: Tephritoidea: Ulidiidae) of Israel, with a key to the world species of Ulidia and description of five new species, pp. 201-247 in Zootaxa 3780 (2) on pages 227-228, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3780.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/228269