Eudorylas pondolandi Foldvari 2003
Creators: name: FÖLDVÁRI, MIHÁLY
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Pipunculidae
Eudorylas
Eudorylas pondolandi

description: Eudorylas pondolandi Földvári, 2003
(Figs 29A–G)
Eudorylas pondolandi Földvári 2003 a: 165.
Diagnosis: Femora dark brown, black, tips yellow-brown (f1,2 silvery pollinose, f3 shining pv). No lateral spines on first tergite. SES with hairs behind PG; gonopods well sclerotized; hypandrium elongated, slightly turned; phallic guide contains two lobes with hole-like structures (may be missing); phallus narrowing very much towards tip; ejaculatory apodeme filiform with basal projection; sperm pump globose.
Type material: South Africa: 1♂ [PT of E. aemulus, no head], HT, Port St. John, Pondoland., 16– 28.04.1924, 1924-235 (BMNH).
Other material examined: Kenya: 1♂, Karura For., Nairobi, 5500 feet, 9–13.xii.1970, A.E. Stubbs, B.M. 1972- 211. (BMNH). South Africa: 1♂, Natal Die Kop 1131m ca. 11km NE of Kranskop, 28º54’57’’S: 30º57’12’’E, Grass & Forest Margin, Londt Whittington & Chinn, 17.iv.1990; 1♂, Cape Mountain Zebra Natl Park, 1400m, March 12 1972, ME & BJ Irwin, 3225 Ab (both NMSA).
Male
Head. Third antennal segment acuminate; dark brown. Face silvery pollinose. Frons, upper part shining black, lower part subshining; eyes touching for distance equal to 2.5 times ocellar triangle. Occiput, upper half brownish pollinose, lower half silver-grey.
Thorax. Humeri brown, slightly paler than mesonotum. Mesonotum (viewed obliquely from front) brownish pollinose; slightly greyish pollinose from the side. Scutellum brownish pollinose, with dispersed, pale hairs. Dorsocentral hairs very weakly developed. Halter brown, stem darker.
Legs. Trochanters and base of femora dark brown, femora dark brown, tips yellow-brown (f1,2 silvery pollinose, f3 shining pv), knees, tibiae and tarsal segments yellow-brown, last segment dark brown. No ventroapical spines on first four femora; 3–4 indistinct, black spines on 3rd femur. Subapical (distal) spines on first four tibiae present. No anteromedial hairs on 3rd tibia. Hind trochanter with fine, short, white hairs on ventral side. Pulvilli slightly smaller than last tarsal segment.
Wing. Fourth costal section 1.5 times as long as third costal section. Cross-vein R-M at 2/5 of discal cell. Distal 2/ 3 of pterostigma full coloured. Hairs on tegula uncertain.
Abdomen (already dissected). Viewed obliquely from front tergites brownish pollinose, as well as hind margins and sides. No lateral spines on first tergite.
Genitalia. Surstyli separate, IS broken; ST8 broken (Fig. 29E). SES uncertain, with hairs behind PG; gonopods well sclerotized; hypandrium elongated, slightly turned, not connected to EP; phallic guide contains two lobes with hole-like structures (not always well developed); phallus short, narrowing very much towards tip (Fig. 28B); ejaculatory apodeme filiform with basal projection; sperm pump globose (Fig. 29F).
Female—Unknown.
Distribution— South Africa, Kenya.
description: Published as part of FÖLDVÁRI, MIHÁLY, 2013, Taxonomic revision of the Afrotropical species of the tribe Eudorylini (Diptera, Pipunculidae), pp. 1-121 in Zootaxa 3656 (1) on pages 87-89, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3656.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6039126