Eupyrgota brahma Korneyev 2014, comb. n.
Creators: name: Korneyev, V. A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Pyrgotidae
Eupyrgota
Eupyrgota brahma

description: <i>Eupyrgota brahma</i> (Hendel), comb. n. (fig. 5) <i>Adapsilia brahma</i> Hendel, 1914: 85. <i>Adapsilia nocturna</i> Bezzi, 1914: 159, <b>syn. n.</b> M a t e r i a l. <b>Type</b>. Holotype Ơ <i>Adapsilia brahma</i>: <b>India</b>: “ Nilgiris / S. India / Sir J. T. Hampson / 88.112”, “Suljuis 3000 [ft] 26/4/[18]89” “ Eupyrgota / Brahma, H. /det. Hendel”, “Type Ơ [red bordered circle]”, “Holo / type [red bordered circle]”, “Holotype Adapsila <i>brahma</i> Bezzi verified J. E. Chainey 2002”, “BMNH # 252156 ”. Directly pinned (BMNH). Holotype Ơ <i>Adapsilia nocturna</i>: <b>India</b>: “ Near Bhowali, Kumaon, / 5,700 ft / A. D. Imms 1910 / 18 June at light ”, “34”, “ Adapsila / <i>nocturna</i> /n. sp. / Type Ơ” (pink paper label with Bezzi’s handwriting), “Type / 1914.331 [red bordered circle]”, “Holo / type [red bordered circle]”, “Holotype Adapsila <i>nocturna</i> Bezzi verified J. E. Chainey 2002”, “BMNH # 252157 ”. Directly pinned (BMNH). D i a g n o s i s. This species can be recognized from the combination of face with facial carina; no ocellar setae; epistoma high, half as high as antennal groove; parafacial in profile 1.7 times as wide as flagellomere 1 (fig. 5, <i>6, 7</i>), mesonotal scutum brownish yellow with extensive black lyrate pattern; anterior portions of anepisternum and anepimeron, as well as anteroventral part of katepisternum black (fig. 5, <i>5</i>); scutellum with at least two pairs of long golden yellow setae (setae partly broken); wing 13 mm long, grey, except yellow anterobasal margin and cell br, and large brown anteroapical spot; fore coxa unmodified; fore and mid trochanters without spinulose setulae; fore femur without long setae, except 2 subbasal ventral setae; setae in ventro-apical rows brown, spurious and moderately long (one-quarter to one-third as long as femur width); all femora mostly brown; tibia reddish or brownish yellow (fig. 5, <i>5</i>); abdominal tergites brownish yellow, tergites 1–3 partly black (fig. 5, <i>9</i>); sternites sparsely yellow setose; surstyli (exposed only in the holotype of <i>A. brahma</i>) long triangular (as in <i>E. luteola</i>: see Kim, Han, 2000: fig. 2G); most setae and setulae brown to reddish yellow. R e m a r k s. As the holotypes of both nominal species are males (some sexually dimorphic characters remain unknown), the reason to place it in the nominative subgenus <i>Eupyrgota</i> (s. str.) is their large size and, in addition, spotted, as in many other Asian species of the nominative subgenus, wing pattern (rather than widely brown one, as in <i>E.</i> (<i>Asipyrgota</i>) <i>flaviseta</i> Aldrich: see below). The specimens show no essential differences in size and body coloration; they share the dark pleural and wing patterns, brown coloration of the moderately thin femora, comparatively strong spurious setae of the apicoventral rows. I therefore consider both holotypes to be conspecific and synonymize two nominal species. No females are known. The paper by Hendel appeared in the beginning of 1914 in the volume of “Archiv für Naturgeschichte” for the year 1913, and Bezzi in his paper (published not earlier than in the August, 1914), referred to the species described by Hendel as to already published, with numbers of the pages. This undoubtedly shows the priority of the Hendel’s name.
description: Published as part of <i>Korneyev, V. A., 2014, Pyrgotid Flies Assigned To Apyrgota. I. New Species And Synonyms In Eupyrgota (S. Str.) (Diptera, Pyrgotidae), With The Description Of A New Subgenus, pp. 111-128 in Vestnik Zoologii 48 (2)</i> on page 121, DOI: 10.2478/vzoo-2014-0012, http://zenodo.org/record/6403931
description: {"references": ["Hendel, F. Neue Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pyrgotinen // Archiv fur Naturgeschichte. - 1914 (1913). - 79 A, N 11. - S. 77 - 117 + 1 Taf.", "Bezzi, M. XXI. - Indian Pyrgotinae (Diptera) // The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. - 1914. - 8 (14). - P. 153 - 163.", "Kim, S. - K., Han, H. - Y. A taxonomic revision of the genera Eupyrgota and Paradapsilia in Korea (Diptera: Pyrgotidae) // Korean Journal of Entomology. - 2000. - 30, N 4. - P. 219 - 233."]}