Villa
Creators: name: Yao, Gang
name: Yang, Ding
name: Evenhuis, Neal L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bombyliidae
Villa

description: Key to species of Villa from China
1. Face covered with black hairs....................................................................................................................................... 2
- Face predominantly covered with pale hairs ................................................................................................................ 5
2. Face without scales; gonocoxa distinctly narrowing apically in ventral view, with numerous black bristle-like hairs apically (Fig 17) ................................................................................................................................. V. aspros sp. nov.
- Face with scales ............................................................................................................................................................ 3
3. Face with white scales .......................................................................................................................... V. o v a t a (Loew)
- Face with yellowish scales............................................................................................................................................ 4
4. Tergites 1–4 with orangish yellow erect hairs and tergites 5–7 with black erect hairs; epiphallus with a nearly round tip in dorsal view (Fig 33).................................................................................................................. V. o b t u s a sp. nov.
- Tergites 2–4 with yellowish recumbent scales anteriorly, and tergites 5–6 with yellowish recumbent scales posteri- orly; epiphallus with an trifurcate tip in dorsal view ..................................................................... V. fasciata (Meigen)
5. Base of wing infuscate (Fig 1)......................................................................................................................................6
- Wing entirely hyaline (Fig 4)........................................................................................................................................ 7
6. Tergite 4 with white recumbent scales anteriorly and tergites 1, 5, and 6 with white recumbent scales posteriorly; epiphallus broad, clubbed in dorsal view (Fig 10)............................................................................. V. aquila sp. nov.
- Tergites 2–4 with light scales anteriorly and tergite 5 with light scales posteriorly; epiphallus subquadrate, narrowing from base to tip in dorsal view............................................................................................... V. hottentotta (Linnaeus)
7. Abdomen with yellow hairs mixed with black hairs or with black and white hairs..................................................... 8
- Abdomen with white or black and white hairs ............................................................................................................. 9
8. Hairs on abdomen mostly orangish yellow, dorsum with dense long yellow hairs laterally except tergites 1–2 with reddish yellow hairs and tergite 7 with a tuft of white hairs laterally............................... V. aurepilosa Du & Yang C.
- Hairs on abdomen black and yellow, tergites 3–4 with yellow hairs laterally and tergites 5–6 with black hairs later- ally……………………………………………………...………………………...……. V. panisca (Rossi)
9. Sternite 4 with white scales; epiphallus subtriangular in shape, with a trifurcate tip in dorsal view (Fig 27) ............... ........................................................................................................................................................... V. flavida sp. nov.
- Sternite 4 without white scales; epiphallus not subtriangular in shape ...................................................................... 10
10. Tergites with white scales anteriorly and black scales posteriorly; epiphallus wide clubbed, and with an obtuse tip in dorsal view ...................................................................................................................... V. xinjiangana Du & Yang C.
- Tergites 2 and 4 with white recumbent scales anteriorly and tergites 6 and 7 with white recumbent scales posteriorly; epiphallus egg-shaped, with tip rounded in dorsal view (Fig 22)............................................... V. cingulata (Meigen)
description: Published as part of Yao, Gang, Yang, Ding & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2009, Four new species and a new record of Villa Lioy, 1864 from China (Diptera: Bombyliidae), pp. 49-60 in Zootaxa 2055 on page 50, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.186683