Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) ferox Villeneuve 1908
Creators: name: Whitmore, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sarcophagidae
Sarcophaga
Sarcophaga ferox

description: Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) ferox Villeneuve, 1908
(Fig. 57)
Sarcophaga ferox Villeneuve, 1908: 123.
Devriesia weberi Lehrer, 1995b: 160, syn. nov.
Heteronychia (Asceloctis) perplexa Peris, González-Mora & Mingo, 1996a: 19, syn. nov.
Type material examined. Sarcophaga ferox: Lectotype 3, herewith designated to fix unambiguously the identity of the nominal species and thus promote nomenclatural stability: S. Cruz / 47394. III // [on underside of white label] Sammlung / Dr. Th. Becker // Type // Sarc. ferox / type / det. Dr. Villeneuve // Zool. Mus. / Berlin // [red label] LECTOTYPE 3 / Sarcophaga / ferox / Villeneuve, 1908 / des. D. Whitmore 2007 (ZMHB) [lectotype in excellent condition, with its terminalia extended and still in place].
Remarks. Villeneuve (1908: 123) described Sarcophaga ferox on an unspecified number of males from “S. Cruz” (Tenerife, Canary Is.) and southern France. The above male, selected as the lectotype, is certainly part of the type series.
Heteronychia (Asceloctis) perplexa: Paratype 3: PEGO / Alicante (Hispania) / Peris Torres (/) 7-VIII-41 // Heteronychia (Asceloctis) / perplexa Peris, González- / Mora y Mingo, 1996 / Peris y González-Mora / det. 1996 (UCME).
Remarks. Heteronychia perplexa was described by Peris et al. (1996a: 20) on the holotype 3 and the above male paratype, both from Pego (Alicante, Spain) and both deposited at UCME.
Additional material examined. Algeria (new country record): Col de Sfa, A. Lameere leg., 1 3 (IRSNB); Mascara, 4.V.1908, 1 3 (IRSNB). Italy: 159 3 and 48 ƤƤ from Apulia, Latium, Sardinia, Sicily and Tuscany (see Whitmore 2009b); Sardinia, Cagliari prov., Costa Rei, V.1995, D. Povolný leg., 2 3 (MMBC); same locality, 28.V–5.VI.1996, D. Povolný leg., 20 3 (MMBC); same locality, 18.VI.1997, D. Povolný leg., 1 3 (MMBC); Sicily, [no further data], 1 3 (IRSNB); Sicily, Palermo prov.: Casina, 24.V.2001, D. Povolný leg., 1 3 (MMBC); same locality, 23.V.2003, D. Povolný leg., 2 3 (MMBC); Catalfano, 27.V.2002, D. Povolný leg., 2 3 (MMBC); Pizzo Cane, 27.V–2.VI.1998, D. Povolný leg., 4 3 (MMBC); same locality, 1.VI.1999, D. Povolný leg., 1 3 (MMBC); same locality, 27.V–1.VI.2001, D. Povolný leg., 5 3 (MMBC); same locality, 28.V–4.VI.2002, D. Povolný leg., 5 3 (MMBC); same locality, 29.V.2003, D. Povolný leg., 1 3 (MMBC); Pizzo Sant’Angelo, 2.VI.2003, D. Povolný leg., 1 3 (MMBC); Valle del Corvo, 2.VI.2001, D. Povolný leg., 2 3 (MMBC). Morocco: Aoulouz, 30 km NW, 1400m, 10.IV.1989, 1 3 (ZMUC); Béni-Mellal, Afourer, 28.III.1995, C. Kassebeer leg., 1 3 (NHRS); same locality, 17.IV.1997, C. Kassebeer leg., 1 3 (NHRS); Larache, 40 km S, 23–24.IV.1989, 1 3 (ZMUC); Ouezzane, 300m, 21–22.IV.1989, 1 3 (ZMUC). Spain: Canary Is., Tenerife, Laguna, 1 3 (ZMHB) [possibly a syntype, but not mentioned by Villeneuve (1908: 123) in the original description]; Tenerife Sur, Palm Mar, 14.III.2007, D. Whitmore et al. leg., 1 3 (CNBFVR). Tunisia: Gafsa, 25 km E, 11–13.III.1986, 1 3 (ZMUC).
Remarks. Lehrer (1995b) described Devriesia weberi on a single male from Menorca (Balearic Is., Spain), deposited at ZMAM. I did not study the holotype, but the differences between Devriesia weberi and Sarcophaga ferox outlined by Lehrer (1995b: 162) fall well within the intraspecific variability of S. (H.) ferox.
The only marked difference between Heteronychia perplexa and Sarcophaga (H.) ferox is the short vesica of H. perplexa (Fig. 57). Although the characteristically elongated vesica represents an autapomorphy of S. (H.) ferox within Heteronychia, its length and width in profile are quite variable, and I consider H. perplexa to be conspecific with S. (H.) ferox.
description: Published as part of Whitmore, Daniel, 2011, New taxonomic and nomenclatural data on Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), with description of six new species, pp. 1-57 in Zootaxa 2778 on page 32, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.201885