Metopina
Creators: name: Mostovski, Mike B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Phoridae
Metopina

description: Key to the Metopina species of Israel
1 Females ............................................................................................. 2
- Males............................................................................................... 7
2 Anterior flap of abdominal tergite 5 vestigial and either membranous or weakly sclerotized, posterior part of tergite 5 spear- shaped (Fig. 3).......................................................................... M. kuslitzkyi sp. n.
- Anterior flap of abdominal tergite 5 well-developed and sclerotized, posterior part of tergite 5 variously shaped........... 3
3 Anterior flap of abdominal tergite 5 remarkably long (Fig. 1).................................... M. braueri (Strobl)
- Anterior flap of abdominal tergite 5 of different shape......................................................... 4
4 Anterior flap of abdominal tergite 5 constitutes more than half a circle, with notably sclerotized anterior arms (Fig. 6)............................................................................................. M. ulrichi Disney
- Anterior flap of abdominal tergite 5 semicircular or nearly so................................................... 5
5 Anterior flap of abdominal tergite 5 clearly less than semicircular, tergite 5 itself broadly semilunar (Fig. 4)..................................................................................................... M. obsoleta Beyer
- Anterior flap of abdominal tergite 5 rather semicircular, tergite 5 itself rounded triangular or tapered.................... 6
6 Abdominal tergite 5 rounded triangular (Fig. 2), pleural areas of abdomen with at least two rows of setae on segment 5 and one row on segment 4.................................................................... M. heselhausi Schmitz
- Abdominal tergite 5 generally thin and posteriorly tapered to various degree (Fig. 5), pleural area of abdominal segment 5 nor- mally with a single row of setae............................................................ M. pileata Schmitz
7 Ventral side of abdomen lacks any sclerotization............................................................. 8
- Sclerotized areas present on ventral side of abdominal segment 4, being developed as an entire sclerite or a group of isolated areas of pigmentation around base of each seta.............................................................. 9
8 Posterior face of hind femur with oblique striation in basal third (Fig. 12)............................ M. ulrichi Disney
- Posterior face of hind femur mostly reticulated in basal half and appears scaly along ventral edge (Fig. 10)...................................................................................................... M. kuslitzkyi sp. n.
9 Sensory area on posterior face of hind femur very distinct and includes a pit surrounded by microsetae. M. heselhausi Schmitz
- Microsculpture of the sensory area on posterior face of hind femur variable but never includes such a pit............... 10
10 Hind trochanter with a sausage-like seta in addition to several short bristles (Fig. 11); abdominal venter with two sclerotized plates (Fig. 8)........................................................................... M. obsoleta Beyer
- Hind trochanter only with simple setae or bristles........................................................... 11
11 Sclerotized patch on abdominal venter weak and consists of isolated areas of pigmentation around the base of each seta that, however, may show some coalescence; the patch with less than 15 setae arranged in two irregular series separated by a bare space (Fig. 9); microsculpture at base of posterior face of hind femur with long axes of polygons subparallel to ventral edge of femur................................................................................. M. pileata Schmitz
- Abdominal venter with 12–20 setae that are not separated into two irregular series, and areas of pigmentation show no signs of coalescence; microsculpture at base of posterior face of hind femur with long axes of polygons divergent from ventral edge of femur................................................................................ M. braueri (Strobl)
description: Published as part of Mostovski, Mike B., 2016, Metopina Macquart (Diptera: Phoridae) of Israel, with description of a new species, new records and an identification key, pp. 61-68 in Zootaxa 4111 (1) on page 67, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4111.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/271454