Empidideicus Becker 1907
Creators: name: Gharali, Babak
name: Evenhuis, Neal L.
name: Moghbeli, Sajjad
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Mythicomyiidae
Empidideicus

description: Genus Empidideicus Becker
Empidideicus Becker, 1907: 97. Type species: Empidideicus carthaginiensis Becker, 1907, by monotypy.
Key to the species of the genus Empidideicus known from Iran (adapted from Moghbeli et al. 2020)
1- Proboscis fleshy, apically not pointed (subgenus Cyrtoides).................................................... 2
- Proboscis pointed apically (subgenus Empidideicus)......................................................... 3
2- Occiput completely black..................................... E. (Cyrtoides) reemeri Gharali & Evenhuis sp. nov.
- Occiput completely yellow........................... E. (Cyrtoides) primitus Gharali, Evenhuis & Moghbeli sp. nov.
3- Occiput laterally completely black....................................................................... 4
- Occiput laterally yellow or at least with yellow spot......................................................... 7
4- Mid coxa with sclerotized square flap like projection basolaterally.................................................................................. E. (Empidideicus) legulicoxa Gharali & Evenhuis, 2010 (in Gharali et al. 2010)
- Mid coxa without sclerotized square flap like projection basolaterally............................................ 5
5- Dorsum of mesonotum completely black, without longitudinal stripes; prescutellar area completely black................ 6
- Dorsum of mesonotum yellow with 3 black longitudinal stripes; prescutellar area completely yellow....................................................... E. (Empidideicus) greatheadi Gharali & Evenhuis, 2010 (in Gharali et al. 2010)
6- Frons with small triangular spot, scutellum completely yellow....................................................................................... E. (Empidideicus) persicus Gharali & Evenhuis, 2010 (in Gharali et al. 2010)
- Frons with large quadrate black spot, scutellum with two basolateral black spots................................................................................. E. (Empidideicus) ferrarius Gharali, Evenhuis & Moghbeli sp. nov.
7- Dorsal pattern on mesonotum orange...... E. (Empidideicus) aurantiacus Gharali & Evenhuis, 2011 (in Gharali et al. 2011)
- Dorsal pattern on mesonotum brown, blackish brown or black.................................................. 8
8- Occiput completely yellow laterally....................................................................... 9
- Occiput black with yellow spot laterally................................................................................................... E. (Empidideicus) jirofti Moghbeli, Fekrat & Gharali, 2020 (in Moghbeli et al. 2020)
9- Prescutellar area completely yellow...................................................................... 12
- Prescutellar area with at least some brown or black colour adjacent to scutellum.................................. 10
10- Prescutellar area completely brown or black; spermathecae subglobular, without any striation externally........................................................ E. (Empidideicus) unicus Gharali & Evenhuis, 2011 (in Gharali et al. 2011)
- Prescutellar area with narrow blackish brown stripe adjacent to scutellum and with yellow mark; spermathecae globular, at least basal half striated externally............................................................................ 11
11- Prescutellar area with a large quadrate yellow mark; spermathecae cylindrical, completely striated externally......................................... E. (Empidideicus) formosus Hakimian, Talebi & Gharali, 2014 (in Hakimian et al. 2014)
- Prescutellar area with an oval yellow mark; spermathecae globular, only basal half striated externally......................................... E. (Empidideicus) citridomus Gharali, Majnon Jahromi & Evenhuis, 2015 (in Gharali et al. 2015)
12- Vein R 4+5 curved upward, meeting costa at level of CuA; vein M 1+2 shorter than half of M 2 ................................................................. E. (Empidideicus) ebellicus Gharali & Evenhuis, 2010 (in Gharali et al. 2010)
- Vein R 4+5 straight, meeting costa well beyond level of CuA; vein M 1+2 longer than half of M 2 ......................... 13
13- Second antennal flagellomere as long as or longer than first flagellomere; genital fork [= furca] with well-sclerotized plates around genital orifice..................... E. (Empidideicus) amicus Gharali & Evenhuis, 2010 (in Gharali et al. 2010)
- Second antennal flagellomere much shorter than first flagellomere; genital fork without sclerotized area around genital orifice................................... E. (Empidideicus) matricarius Gharali & Evenhuis, 2010 (in Gharali et al. 2010)
description: Published as part of Gharali, Babak, Evenhuis, Neal L. & Moghbeli, Sajjad, 2025, Three new species of the genus Empidideicus Becker, 1907 (Diptera, Mythicomyiidae) from Iran with the first record of the subgenus Cyrtoides Engel, 1933, pp. 529-541 in Zootaxa 5604 (4) on pages 530-540, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5604.4.5, http://zenodo.org/record/15214128