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

description: Ulidia Meigen
Ulidia Meigen, 1826: 385; Type species Ulidia erythrophthalma Meigen, 1826: 387 by subsequent designation of Hennig (1940: 16).
Redescription. Head (Figs. 20–28): Structure: usually higher than long (in U. gongjugensis Chen and U. xizangensis Chen from China, head conspicuously longer than high). Frons either deeply pitted, rough, shagreened or smooth. First flagellomere round to slightly oval. Color and vestiture: head mostly brown to black, sometimes partially reddish, orange or yellow (in U. gongjugensis Chen head mostly yellow). Frons mostly brown to black, sometimes with reddish or yellowish areas. Orbit usually shiny, sometimes with fine microtrichose line bordering eye, with or without widening (in U. metope Kameneva from Kyrgyzstan, orbit completely silvery-white microtrichose). Antennal groove silvery-white microtrichose. First flagellomere brown to black or orange to yellow, mostly with golden or silvery microtrichia. Palpus brown to black, sometimes reddish or yellowish, mostly with sparse silvery microtrichia (in all Israeli species palpus brownish-black, silvery microtrichose). Setae and setulae: all setae and setulae (except on labellum) black. 0–2 orbital setae present. Gena with 0–3 setae. Postgena, occiput and frons setulose. Vibrissal angle usually setulose. Palpus and labellum with long setulae; setulae sometimes black or white, sometimes mixed black and white.
Thorax: Color and vestiture: mostly black, reddish-black or reddish-brown, smooth and shiny or mat shagreened; in all Israeli species postalar wall and anatergite slightly white microtrichose. Setae and setulae: all setae and setulae black; 1–2 supra-alar, 1 intra-alar, 1 postalar, 0–1 intra-postalar, 1–2 dorsocentral, 0–1 acrostichal, 2–6 anepisternal, 1–6 katepisternal and 2 scutellar setae present.
Legs: Mostly brown to black, sometimes partially orange or yellow (in U. kandybinae Zaitzev from Mongolia, legs entirely yellow). Hindfemur usually not widened (as wide as midfemur) in both sexes (in U. wadicola Steyskal from Egypt, hindfemur widened in male).
Wing (Figs. 33–38): Pattern: hyaline to infuscate; pattern, if present, consists of apical spot and one or combination of darkened cells (basal costal, costal, subcostal, cubital). Venation: Vein Cu2 with angular to slightly sinuous type bend; in Israeli species vein Cu2 ratio 0.5–1.4.
Abdomen: Mostly black except syntergite 1+2 basolaterally slightly white microtrichose; often shagreened. Abdomen setulose.
Male terminalia (Fig. 55–62, 65–68, 78–85): Lateral surstylus apically narrowed and medioapically bent; medial surstylus setulose, sometimes spinulose. Phallus usually bare (with few setulae in U. wasimi n. sp.), with pair of sclerotized taeniae extending from base to mid-point of phallus, and another pair of similar taeniae beginning at middle, almost reaching apex; apical half of phallus bears one to three long membranous caecum-like appendices.
Female terminalia: Cercal unit (Figs. 92–99) oval to triangular, apically rounded to pointed.
Distribution. Palaearctic.
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 page 222, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3780.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/228269