Phyllomya nobilis Mesnil. Scale 1957
Creators: name: Shima, Hiroshi
name: Zhang, Wenxia
name: Tachi, Takuji
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tachinidae
Phyllomya
Phyllomya nobilis

description: Phyllomya nobilis Mesnil, 1957
(Figs 35, 47, 65, 82, 94, 114, 143–144)
Phyllomya nobilis Mesnil, 1957 (as Phyllomyia): 71. Holotype female (CNC, examined), not male as stated by Mesnil (1957: 71). Type locality: Japan, Towada.
Phyllomya nobilis: Mesnil 1970: 119 (Oriental tachinids); Herting 1984: 156 (Palearctic catalog); Shima 1988: 16 (Japan & Oriental tachinids); Herting & Dely-Draskovits 1993: 388 (Palearctic catalog); Shima 2000: 491 (tachinids of Imperial Palace); Richter 2004: 368 (tachinids of Russian Far East); Shima 2005: 393 (tachinids of Akasaka Imperial Gardens); Shima
2006: 287 (tachinids of Imperial Palace); Shima 2014: 837 (catalog of Japanese insects); Shima & Hara 2016: 5 (tachinids of Saitama Prefecture).
Diagnosis. Slender, blackish flies; head dichoptic; 2 proclinate orbital setae in both sexes; pedicel with a long seta at most 1/3 length of postpedicel; arista short plumose; 2 katepisternal setae; basal scutellar setae absent; mid tibia with 1 anterodorsal seta; hind tibia with 2 preapical dorsal setae; wing with brownish marking on apical portion; male claws and pulvilli shorter than 5th tarsomere; abdomen dark brown to black in ground color, without distinct pruinosity, with a pair of median discal setae on 3rd to 5th tergites.
Redescription. Body length: 6.3–9.2 mm.
Male and female. Head with grayish-white pruinosity, upper fronto-orbital plate and upper occiput shiny black; palpus black; thorax shiny black, with thin, grayish-white pruinosity on dorsum, dense on postpronotal lobe and notopleural area; abdomen shiny black, without pruinosity; wing pale brown-tinged on apical portion, along veins R 1, R 4+5 and M; body including occiput with only black hairs. Head dichoptic; vertex about 0.33 of head width in male, 0.36 in female; frons with 2 proclinate orbital setae; parafacial with 1–2 rows of fine short hairs on upper 3/4; pedicel with a long seta at most 1/3 as long as postpedicel; postpedicel 5.0–5.5 times as long as pedicel in male, about 4.5 times in female; arista short plumose; 1 presutural and 0 postsutural acrostichal setae; 2 presutural and 3 postsutural dorsocentral setae; 2 postsutural intra-alar setae, anterior seta fine; 2 katepisternal setae; basal scutellar setae absent; costa haired above and below; fore tibia with only 1 posterior seta; mid tibia with 1 anterodorsal seta; hind tibia with 2 preapical dorsal setae; male claws and pulvilli as short as in female, shorter than 5th tarsomere; abdominal syntergite 1+2 without median discal setae, 3rd to 5th tergites each with a pair of median discal setae; male 5th sternite with postero-interior corner of posterior lobe weakly angulated, not pointed.
Male terminalia: Sixth tergite entire, only weakly concave on anterior margin, with a row of setae on posterior margin; surstylus broad, nearly parallel-sided, weakly narrowed near apex, with dense hairs; cerci in dorsal view broad at base and strongly narrowed at basal 2/5, parallel-sided to apical 1/5, then narrowed to apex, with distinct mid-dorsal suture on basal portion and narrowly separated along apical 1/5, in lateral view well constricted at basal 2/5, then evenly curved ventrally; pregonite weakly pointed near median portion; postgonite not extending beyond epiphallus; dorsal sclerite of distiphallus flat, apical membranous portion short, about 1/4 as long as basal portion.
Female terminalia: Sixth tergite long, entire, with several discal setae and a row of marginal setae; 6th sternite with rather dense hairs on entire surface; 7th hemitergites long-ovate in form, with several setae on posterior portion; 7th sternite with rather strong hairs on posterior 1/2; 8th hemitergite rather long, broadly fused with hypoproct on median portion; 8th sternite nearly as long as 7th sternite.
Description of first instar larva. Body length 0.85–0.95 mm; cephaloskeleton rather broad on apical 1/2, dorsal margin weakly concave at middle; 2nd thoracic segment with 3–4 anterodorsal rows of fine spinules; 2nd to 6th abdominal segments each with 5–7 posteroventral rows of short fine spinules, 7th segment with a complete posterior row of spinules.
Type material examined. Holotype ♀. JAPAN / S. Takano // 12–13.vi.1954 / Towada [in Japanese] (CNC).
Additional material examined. Japan, Hokkaido: 1 ♂, Sapporo, Jozankei, 20.viii.1996, T. Tachi; Honshu: 1 ♀, Aomori Pref., Hirakawa, Towada Lake, 600 m, 22.vii.2001, T. Tachi; 1 ♀, Aomori Pref., Mt. Iwaki, 700 m, 23.vii.2001, H. Shima; 1 ♀, Miyagi Pref., Sendai City, Mt. Taihaku, 16.vii.2001, T. Tachi; 1 ♀, Niigata, S. Echigo, Hiuchiyama, 27.viii.1966, K. Baba; 2 ♂♂, Saitama Pref., Urawa, Tajimagahara, 21,28. v.1977, K. Hara; 2 ♀♀, Saitama Pref., Minano, 14.v.1974, 28.x.1972, K. Hara; 1 ♀, Saitama Pref., Yorii, 10.x.1977, K. Hara; 1 ♀, Saitama Pref., Tokorozawa, Mikajima, 7.vi.1990, H. Mitsui; 12 ♂♂, 14 ♀♀, Tokyo, Imperial Palace, 10.v.1999, 12.v.2005, 14.v.1998, 16.v.2002, 15.v.2004, 20.v–19.vi.1996, 19.vi–12.vii.1996, 21.vi.1999, S. Shinonaga, H. Shima, T. Nambu (BLKU, NSMT); 34 ♂♂, 35 ♀♀, Tokyo, Akasaka Imperial Gardens, 20.iv.2002, 28.iv.2003, 30.iv.2002, 13.v.2002, 4.vi.2003, 10.vi.2003, 8.vii.2003, 2.ix.2003, 16.ix.2003, 8.x.2002, 11.x.2002, 14.x.2003, 15.x.2003, 28.x.2002, 11.xi.2002, S. Shinonaga (KUM, NSMT); 2 ♂♂, 17 ♀♀, Nagano Pref., Myoko Village, 22.vi.1996, T. Tachi; 1 ♀, Nagano Pref., Ueda, 23.ix.1974, S. Shinonaga; 1 ♀, Nagano Pref., Karuizawa, Nagahinata, 12.vii.1966, H. Shima; 1 ♂, Yamanashi Pref., Sutama-cho, Mt. Mizugaki, 15.vii.1996, T. Tachi; 1 ♂, Yamanashi Pref., Sutama-cho, Ochiai, 16.vii.1996, T. Tachi; 1 ♀, Yamanashi Pref., Hakushi Town, Shimotsutaki, 2.vi.1998, T. Tachi; 1 ♂, Kanagawa Pref. Yokohama City, Enkaizan, 19.vii.1997, M. Sueyoshi; 1 ♀, Shizuoka City, Mt. Yamabushi, 6.vii.1996, T. Tachi; 2 ♀♀, Kyoto Pref., Miyama Town, Uchikubo, 23.v.1998, M. Sueyoshi; Shikoku: 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀, Ehime Pref., Odami- yama Vall., 14.vi.1990, 14.v.1992, 19.vi.1993, E. Yamamoto (KUM); Kyushu: 3 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, Fukuoka Pref., Sefuri- yama, 28.v.2000, 18.vi.1997, 14.ix.1996, 8.vii.2008, R. Matsumoto, T. Tachi & H. Shima; 2 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀, Fukuoka Pref., Soeda Town, Hikosan, 15.vi.1996, 25, 26.vi.1966, 16,17. vii.1997, T. Tachi & H. Shima; 1 ♀, Mts. Kuju, Kyusuikei, 13.v.1966, M. Honda; 1 ♀, Oita Pref., Kokonoe-machi, Sensuiyama, 9.ix.1997, R. Matsumoto; 1 ♀, Mts. Kirishima, Takachiho-kawara, 26.vii.1965, H. Shima. [All BLKU and KUM unless otherwise indicated]
Distribution. Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu).
Remarks. This species appears to have several generations in Japan between late spring and late autumn. Mesnil (1957: 71) stated that the holotype is a male, but it is in fact a female.
description: Published as part of Shima, Hiroshi, Zhang, Wenxia & Tachi, Takuji, 2022, A systematic study of Old World Phyllomya Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Tachinidae), pp. 401-449 in Zootaxa 5099 (4) on pages 427-429, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5099.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6091813