Urytalpa
Creators: name: Bechev, Dimitar
name: Koç, Hasan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Keroplatidae
Urytalpa

description: Key to males of the Western Palaearctic species of Urytalpa
1. Antenna nearly twice as long as head and thorax together. Fore metatarsus as long as tibia. Male termina-lia—Figs. 1 and 2 ...................................................................................................... U. macrocera Edwards
- Antenna not longer than head and thorax together. Fore metatarsus distinctly shorter than tibia .............. 2
2. Costa extending ½ – ½ of distance from tip of R5 to that of M1. Male terminalia—Figs. 3 and 4 ............. ....................................................................................................................................... U. atriceps Edwards
- Costa extending about ¼ or less of distance from tip of R5 to M1 ............................................................. 3
3. Abdomen black .............................................................................................................. U. maritima Becker
- Abdomen with yellow or yellow-brown markings or bands ....................................................................... 4
4. Distal margin of tergite 9 in great part convex, only medially with small emargination (Fig. 16). Male ter- minalia—Figs. 16 – 19 ................................................................................................... U. chandleri sp. n.
- Distal margin of tergite 9 for the greater part emarginate............................................................................ 5
5. Distal margin of tergite 9 with U-shaped emargination (Fig. 5). Male terminalia—Figs. 5 and 6 ............... ................................................................................................................................. U. rhapsodica Chandler
- Distal margin of tergite 9 with trapezium-shaped emargination................................................................. 6
6. Gonostyle not prolonged more than gonocoxite (Fig. 8). Male terminalia—Figs. 7 and 8 .......................... ...................................................................................................................................... U. ochracea Meigen
- Gonostyle prolonged more than gonocoxite (Figs. 10, 12) ........................................................................ 7
7. Distal margin of tergite 9 convex, only medially with trapezium-shaped emargination (Fig. 9). Apex of gonostyle inwardly directed (Fig. 10) ...................................................................... U. trivittata Lundström
- Distal margin of tergite 9 not convex, all with large trapezium-shaped emargination. (Fig. 11). Gonostyle outwardly directed (Fig. 12) .................................................................................... U. nussbaumi Chandler
description: Published as part of Bechev, Dimitar & Koç, Hasan, 2008, Urytalpa chandleri sp. n. (Diptera: Keroplatidae) from Turkey, with a key to the Western Palaearctic species of the genus, pp. 29-36 in Zootaxa 1676 on pages 30-31, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.180308