Taxonomic revision ofDasydorylasSkevington, 2001 (Diptera, Pipunculidae) in the Middle East

Abstract

Species of the distinctive and cosmopolitan genus Dasydorylas Skevington, 2001 in the Middle East are revised. Seven species are documented, and three new species, Dasydorylas dactylos sp. nov., D. forcipus sp. nov. and D. parazardouei sp. nov., are described, and one synonym, D. derafshani Motamedinia & Kehlmaier, 2017, syn. nov. is proposed, based on sequence information from the mitochondrial COI barcoding gene and morphological parameters. Diagnoses, illustrations and distributional data are provided for all studied species. Descriptions of new species as well as an identification key to all known species in the Middle East are also provided.Subjects Entomology, Taxonomy

Dasydorylas Skevington, 2001 (Pipunculidae, Tomosvaryellini) of Colombia, with description of three new species and a key to Neotropical males

“…Dasydorylas Skevington, 2001(Pipunculinae Walker, 1834: Tomosvaryellini Hardy, 1943) is a cosmopolitan pipunculid genus, with 35 species worldwide (Motamedinia et al 2020). Pipunculus horridus (Becker, 1897) and P. discoidalis (Becker, 1897) were the first described species in the genus.…”

“…The measurements (in millimeters) that refer to the head, antenna and wing were made as proposed by Skevington (2002), Kehlmaier (2005a), Ramos-Pastrana et al (2022a, 2022b, 2022c: F, length of frons; EM, length of eye contiguity; V, length of vertex; LW/ MWW, ratio between length and maximum width of the wing; LTC/ LFC, ratio between length of third costal section by length of fourth costal section of the wing; LPP/ WPP, ratio between length and maximum width of the postpedicel. The morphological terminology of the terminalia of male follows Skevington (2002), Kehlmaier (2005a) Motamedinia et al 2017Motamedinia et al , 2020Ramos-Pastrana et al (2022a, 2022b, 2022c.…”