Eupyrgota Coquillett 1898
Creators: name: Korneyev, V. A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Pyrgotidae
Eupyrgota

description: Subgenus <i>Eupyrgota</i> (s. str.) Syn. <i>Apyrgota</i> Hendel, 1909. D i a g n o s i s. Usually large, robust species; wing 7–21 (usually 9–19) mm long, largely yellow or grey, usually with apex dark grey or brown; scutellum with 3–6 pairs of scutellar setae, except in <i>E. echinata</i> Korneyev, <i>E. melancholica</i> (Brunetti), <i>E. vespiformis</i> (Enderlein), and <i>E. wagae</i> (Bigot) with 2 pairs of setae; fore trochanter of female often with short spiny (or hook-like) setulae. Oviscape uniformly sclerotized, with 2 robust wide ventral hooks anterior of apex and short desclerotized area between them. Male with epandrium moderately elongate in profile, with lateral surstylus often somewhat pointed posteroventrally, densely covered with thick but short setulae; phallus glans with asymmetrical sclerites of acrophallus (conspicuously developed in <i>E. wagae</i>) (see Korneyev, 2004: fig. 16, <i>1, 4</i>; 2006 a: fig. 6). S p e c i e s i n c l u d e d. Twenty-five nominal species correspond to the diagnosis of the subgenus and are placed here: <i>E. aequalis</i> (Malloch, 1939), <b>comb. n.</b> (<i>Adapsilia</i>) (Papua New Guinea); <i>E. alienata</i> (Walker, 1861), <b>comb. n.</b> (<i>Oxycephala</i>) (= <i>E. scioida</i> Hendel, 1908, <b>syn. n.</b>) (Maluku); <i>E. angustifrons</i> (Bezzi, 1914), <b>comb. n.</b> (<i>Adapsilia</i>) (India); <i>E. armipes</i> (Hendel, 1914), <b>comb. n.</b> (<i>Adapsilia</i>) (India); <i>E. brahma</i> (Hendel, 1914), <b>comb. n.</b> (<i>Adapsilia</i>) (= <i>Adapsilia nocturna</i> Bezzi, 1914, <b>syn. n.</b>) (India); <i>E. caffra</i> (Hendel, 1914) (<i>Adapsilia</i>) (Tropical Africa); <i>E. crassipes</i> V. Korneyev, 2006 (DR Congo); <i>E. echinata</i> V. Korneyev, 2006 (DR Congo, Ghana, Uganda); <i>E. flavopilosa</i> (Hendel, 1914) (<i>Adapsilia</i>) (Japan, Korea, China); <i>E. furvimaculis</i> Shi, 1996 (China: Yunnan); <i>E. fusca</i> (Hendel, 1914) (<i>Adapsilia</i>) (Japan, China); <i>E. latipennis</i> (Walker, 1849) (<i>Oxycephala</i>) (Tropical Africa); <i>E. luteola</i> Coquillett, 1898 (Japan, Korea); <i>E. maculiala</i> Shi, 1996 (China: Yunnan); <i>E. melancholica</i> (Brunetti, 1929) (<i>Adapsilia</i>) (Nigeria, Central African Rep., Uganda); <i>E. nyambene</i> V. Korneyev, <b>sp. n.</b> (Kenya); <i>E. pekinensis</i> Chen, 1947 (China: Beijing); <i>E. pieli</i> Chen, 1947 (China: Kiangsu); <i>E. rugosigenis</i> (Hendel, 1934) (<i>Adapsilia</i>) (Angola, Rep. South Africa); <i>E. similis</i> Chen, 1947 (China: Szechwan); <i>E. sublatipennis</i> (Brunetti, 1929) (<i>Adapsilia</i>) (southern Africa); <i>E. varipennis</i> (Curran, 1928) (<i>Campylocera</i>) (DR Congo); <i>E. vespiformis</i> (Enderlein, 1942) (<i>Peltodasia</i>) (Central African Republic, Guinea, Kenya); <i>E. vulpina</i> (Hendel, 1914) (<i>Adapsilia</i>) (India); <i>E. wagae</i> (Bigot, 1880) (<i>Pyrgota</i>) (Middle East of the Palaearctic Region).
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 114, DOI: 10.2478/vzoo-2014-0012, http://zenodo.org/record/6403931
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