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Cordilura bezzi
No full textCordilura bezzi (SACK, 1937) Cordylura bezzi (SACK, 1937): 18 L e c t o t y p e: male, Livrio, without data, designated by VOCKEROTH 1954 (SDEI). C o m m e n t: This species was placed by ŠIFNER (2008) in the genus Bucephalina MALLOCH, 1909.Published as part of V, Marco, 2021, Annotated supplements to catalogues of the family Scathophagidae (Diptera) in the world, with new taxonomic data, notes on some species and new list of species, pp. 1267-1306 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2) on page 1279, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.503898
Gastrozona Bezzi 1913
No full textGastrozona Bezzi Gastrozona Bezzi, 1913: 105. Type species Tephritis fasciventris Macquart, by original designation. This genus is closely related to Carpophthorella and Chaetellipsis, differing mainly in head and wing pattern characters. These three genera have the following characters: third antennal segment rounded or only slightly angled at apex, costal setae weak, female with an elongate, apically setose aculeus and the male with long anal papillae (Hancock and Drew, 1999). For details of the genus Gastrozona, refer to Hancock and Drew (1999). Eight species have been listed by Hancock and Drew (1999), of which only one is recorded from Malaysia, namely G. fasciventris (Macquart). Chua (1999), however, listed another species, namely Gastrozona nr. parviseta Hardy. This is now described as Gastrozona selangorensis new species in this paper.Published as part of Chua, T. H., 2003, New bamboo-shoot flies from Peninsular Malaysia (Diptera: Tephritidae: Ceratitidinae), pp. 463-472 in Journal of Natural History 37 (4) on page 468, DOI: 10.1080/713834705, http://zenodo.org/record/465346
Notes on the frugivorous fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) fauna of western Africa, with description of a new Dacus species
Get PDFThe species richness of the frugivorous fruit fly fauna of western African (in particular of Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria) is discussed. The diversity is compared at a national level and between the ecoregions within the national boundaries of the study area. A new species, Dacus goergeni sp. nov. is described and additional taxonomic notes are presented
Exoprosopa luteicosta Bezzi 1921
No full textExoprosopa luteicosta Bezzi, 1921 (Fig. 23) 94. Exoprosopa (Exoprosopa) luteicosta ɗΨ Tanzania: Shirati, v. 1909 (Katona). MS page [91]. Bezzi, 1921 a: 161, 170 – key and description. Bezzi mentioned: [Namibia] 1 ɗ Ovamboland, 1890 – 91 (E.W. Eriksson) [SAMC]; 2 specimens, [South Africa] Cape, Grahamstown in his own collection and also ‘some other doubtful specimens from [1 ɗ] Touws River, Cape, and [1 Ψ] Pochefstroom, Transvaal (T. Ayres)’ both SAMC. In his Additions (p. 170) he also referred 1 Ψ [Namibia], Tsumeb, xii. 1919 (R.W.E. Tucker) also in SAMC to this species. There are four specimens in Bezzi’s collection at MSNM as follows, label data updated: Tanzania: 1 ɗ, Shirati, ii. 1909 (Katona); Zimbabwe: 1 ɗ, Salisbury, Arcturus, 1916 (Dr Melle); South Africa: 1 ɗ 1 Ψ, Limpopo, Newington [24 ° 50 'S 31 ° 17 'E], 8.i. 1912 (J.P. Fenouhlet) 1426. Bezzi, 1924: 285, 350 – key and diagnosis. Listed ‘numerous specimens of both sexes from various localities, as follows: [2 ɗ 1 Ψ], Transvaal, Pretoria, [20] March 1914 (Miss. Brincker); Belgian Congo, Katanga District, [2 ɗ 2 Ψ], Kambove, 4,000–5,000 ft., 31 March 1907 and [1 ɗ 3 Ψ], 150200 miles W. of Kambove, 3,500–4,500 ft., 19 October 1907 (Dr. S.A. Neave) [not found]; Nyasaland Protectorate, 1909 (Dr J.K. Norris) [not found]; Chenzi, near Domira Bay, 2,420 ft., 12 December 1914 (Dr W.A. Lambourn), and Chikala District and Zomba, January 1918 (D.H.S. Stannus) [not found]; and Portuguese East Africa, [1 Ψ], E. of Mt. Mlanje [28.xi. 1913] (Dr S.A. Neave) and [1 Ψ] Port Amelia [1914] (F.V. Beste). The specimens from Kambove, Katanga, 31 March 1907 (Dr S.A. Neave) have the fore borders of the wings broadly infuscated’. Hesse, 1956: 868 – description from the Ovamboland, Pochefstroom and Tsumeb specimens mentioned in Bezzi (1921 a). He doubted that Bezzi’s Grahamstown specimens were E. luteicosta because the locality is outside its known distribution (map in Greathead, 2001 a). Evenhuis & Greathead, 1999: 366 – listed syntypes 1 in NMSA, 2 in SAMC from Bezzi (1921 a). Greathead, 2001 a: 133 – key to species group, synonymy, and diagnosis. Types: The syntypes, at least two, in HNHM were destroyed 1956. Bezzi (1921 a) listed four syntypes in SAMC and two in his own collection [= MSNM] and in Bezzi (1924) an unspecified number of syntypes in BMNH. Twelve of these syntypes were found. As indicated above there are four specimens in Bezzi’s collection in MSNM. The specimen from Shirati is clearly one of the original series from HNHM but none of the others are from Grahamstown! Did Bezzi write Grahamstown in error for Newington or were the three additional specimens acquired after he had completed the manuscript of his 1921 a paper? Because of this uncertainty, the status of these three specimens is in doubt and they cannot confidently be listed as syntypes. The label data on the specimen in NMSA listed as a syntype of E. luteicosta Bezzi in Evenhuis & Greathead (1999) indicates that it is in fact not a syntype of E. luteicosta Bezzi but a paratype of E. luteicosta var. metapleuralis Hesse (1956) (from [Mozambique] Inyak Island, ix. 1919 (H.G. Breyer). Paratype no. 949) (Mikhail Mostovski, pers. comm.). The male specimen from Shirati in MSNM is designated lectotype (Fig. 23) in line with Bezzi’s intention to describe E. luteicosta from specimens from this locality. Remarks: This species is well characterised and abundant in collections from southern and eastern Africa.Published as part of Greathead, David J. & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2004, New species of Bombylioidea in Mario Bezzi's Unpublished Hungarian Museum Manuscript, pp. 1-56 in Zootaxa 773 on pages 37-39, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15846
Bactrocera (Bactrocera) tuberculata Bezzi
No full textBactrocera (Bactrocera) tuberculata (Bezzi) (Figures 5a ̄h) Chaetodacus tuberculatus Bezzi, 1916: 106. Dacus (Strumeta) tuberculatus (Bezzi) — Hardy, 1973: 50. Bactrocera (Bactrocera) tuberculata —Norrbom et al., 1999: 96. Diagnosis. Medium sized, black species (6.00̄ 6.26 mm). Face fulvous with circular, black spot in each antennal furrow, scutum black with broad (> 0.15 mm), yellow lateral postsutural vitta ending just beyond intra-alar seta, broad anepisternal stripe reaching anterior notopleural seta, continued as a small transverse spot on katepisternum, scutellum yellow with narrow, black basal band and a pair of scutellar setae, mediotergite and subscutellum black. All femora fulvous without any markings, tibiae and tarsal segments fulvous. Wing (5.2̄ 5.5 mm) predominantly hyaline with narrow costal band from cell sc to wing to r1 discontinued beyond the cell and an apical spot, extension of cell bcu longer than bcu, anal streak well developed. Abdomen oval, tergites black except for fulvous transverse band on tergites I+II, pecten present on tergite III, sternite V of male with a deep posterior emargination. Male genitalia: Epandrium and surstyli elongate-oval in outline (posterior view); epandrium slightly longer than lateral surstylus in profile, posterior lobe of surstylus broad, not longer than anterior lobe; ventral rim of lateral surstylus 3̄4 times longer than dorsal rim. Proctiger membraneous, quadrate, smaller than epandrium. Medial surstylus longer than lateral surstylus, tapering towards apex with a pair of thick prensisetae. Aedeagus 2.0 mm long excluding glans (0.40 mm); 0.75 of glans sclerotised with well developed acrophallus, unpatterned praeputium; subapical lobe and basal lobe present. Male parapheromone. Methyl eugenol. Host plants. Recorded from eight plant families (Drew and Romig, 2013). Material examined. 4♂♂, INDIA, Meghalaya, Umiam, ICAR-NEH, G. T. Behre (NBAIR) Known distribution. Myanmar, Bhutan, China, Thailand, Souhern Vietnam and Northern Vietnam Remarks. Bactrocera tuberculata is similar to B. correcta and its allies in possessing an interrupted costal band but can be differentiated by the black abdominal tergites III to V.Published as part of David, K. J., Hancock, D. L., Singh, Shakti Kumar, Ramani, S., Behere, G. T. & Salini, S., 2017, New species, new records and updated subgeneric key of Bactrocera Macquart (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacinae: Dacini) from India, pp. 386-400 in Zootaxa 4272 (3) on pages 394-397, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4272.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/89249
Notes on Thaumaleidae (1).Thaumalea dentata Edwards, a Synonym of Thaumalea inflata Bezzi
No full textA lectotype is designated for T. inflata Bezzi, and T. dentata Edwards is shown to be its junior synonym
Stenopogon roederii BEZZI 1895
No full text<i>Stenopogon roederii</i> BEZZI 1895 <p>M a t e r i a l: Mazandaran province: Behshahr (Rice field), 1; 3 July 2006. New record for the Iranian fauna.</p> <p>D i s t r i b u t i o n: Italy, Russia, Soviet Middle Asia, Transcaucasus (incl. Azerbaijan), Turkey.</p>Published as part of <i>Ghahari, H., Hayat, R., P. A, Lavigne, R. & Ostovan, H., 2007, Robber Flies (Diptera: Asilidae) of Iranian Rice Fields and Surrounding Grasslands, pp. 919-928 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 39 (2)</i> on page 926, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/5416840">10.5281/zenodo.5416840</a>
Parisus fucatus Bezzi 1921
No full text<i>Parisus fucatus</i> (Bezzi, 1921) <p>(Fig. 12)</p> <p> 14. <i>Bombylius fucatus</i> 1ɗ1Ψ South Africa (Eastern Cape): Willowmore, 1.i.1907 (H. Brauns). MS page 7.</p> <p> <b>Bezzi, 1921a</b>: 14 – key only.</p> <p>Bezzi, 1922: 72 – ex Willowmore i.1907 & 1911 (in HNHM and Bezzi personal collection [= MSNM]). Syntype located in MSNM 1ɗ ‘Capland, Willowmore, i.1911 (H. Brauns)’ and an orange label ‘38 Bezzi’; also a 1Ψ ‘OFS, Bloemfontein, 23.xi.1914 ’ (the latter specimen considered here not a part of the type series).</p> <p>Bezzi, 1924: 47 – key only.</p> <p> Hesse, 1938: 182 – full description of 1ɗ2Ψ from Willowmore formerly in Brauns’s personal collection (see remarks). Descriptions of other closely allied species: <i>Bombylius calviniensis</i> Hesse <b>SYN. NOV.</b> (p. 198), <i>B. imitator</i> Hesse <b>SYN. NOV.</b> (p. 185), <i>B. anomalus</i> Hesse <b>SYN. NOV.</b> (p. 196) here synonymised with <i>P. fucatus</i> (Bezzi).</p> <p> Hesse, 1961: 68 – discussed variability of <i>Bombylius fucatus</i> (<i>sensu</i> Hesse) and synonymised <i>Bombylius pseudopsis</i> Hesse and <i>B. icteroglaenus</i> Hesse with it.</p> <p> Bowden, 1980: 392 – replaced the preoccupied <i>Bombylius imitator</i> Hesse with <i>Bombylius erroneus</i> Bowden <b>SYN. NOV</b>.</p> <p> Greathead, 1995: 59 – transferred <i>Bombylius fucatus</i> to <i>Parisus</i>.</p> <p> Evenhuis & Greathead, 1999: 165 – listed only 4 syntypes in HNHM (destroyed) and replaced the preoccupied <i>P. anomalus</i> (Hesse) with <i>P. neoanomalus</i> Evenhuis and Greathead, <b>SYN NOV</b>.</p> <p> <b>Types</b>: The four syntypes in HNHM were destroyed in 1956. Another syntype was found in Bezzi’s collection in MSNM. The male specimen labelled ‘38 Bezzi’ in Brauns's collection is doubtfully a syntype (see below) and there is even less evidence that Bezzi had seen the two unlabelled female specimens in Brauns's collection. Thus the only remaining specimen that is certainly a syntype is the male in MSNM, which is here designated <b>lectotype</b> (Fig. 12).</p> <p> <b>Remarks</b>: The lectotype specimen corresponds with the characters in Bezzi’s (1921a; 1924) keys, except that the underside of the head is pale and not black. Notably, as specified in the keys it does not have dark bristly hairs on the abdomen. The manuscript description is brief but specifies yellow hair (no mention of black); eyes of male narrowly separated; proboscis black above, red beneath; scape of male black, female yellow, remainder of antenna black; thorax black with submedian vittae; scutellum red, base narrowly black; abdomen black with sides narrowly red and sternites with narrow red posterior margins; hair dense, denser at posterior margins of segments; legs yellow, only last two tarsomeres black; hind femora with 6–8 long yellow ventral bristles; wing of male with base and fore margin very feebly infuscated; cell r5 obtuse and with a long stalk, discal cell with m­m long; r­m crossvein distinctly beyond middle of discal cell.</p> <p> The specimens described by Hesse (1938) do have dark bristly hairs on the abdomen. In addition the male has totally black antennae and not reddish scape and pedicel as specified in Bezzi’s keys but not in his description. Hesse (1938) states that in addition to ‘ <i>Bombylius fucatus</i> Bezzi’ in Brauns handwriting, the single male bears a label ‘38 Bezzi’ (Fig. 3 d), which he considered to be in Bezzi’s handwriting and as proof that it was part of the original batch sent to Bezzi. However, the ‘38 Bezzi’ label on the MSNM syntype is not in Bezzi’s handwriting, which suggests that the labels may have been added by Brauns to identify the specimens as, in his opinion, conspecific and labelled by himself before sending the MSNM specimen to Bezzi for identification? Hesse (1938) refers to three unlabelled female specimens (except for the label ‘Bezzi I. 5 ’ on one of them) from Willowmore in Brauns’ collection. He found one to be a specimen of <i>P. paterculus</i> (Walker) and the other two <i>P. f u c a t u s</i>, but does not provide any evidence suggesting that Bezzi had seen them.</p> <p> The lectotype runs most closely in Hesse’s (1938) key to <i>Parisus calviniensis</i> (Hesse). However, it is evident that <i>Parisus</i> spp. tend to be variable in the degree of reddening of the cuticle and colour of the vestiture as concluded by Hesse (1961) so that the full extent of variation within species can only be decided when large numbers of specimens are available for comparison and that some other species described from single specimens or a few specimens of one sex only may also be synonyms. A number of the species described by Hesse (1938) as near <i>P. f u c a t u s sensu</i> Hesse (1938) have virtually identical male genitalia, including <i>P. calviniensis</i>. An examination of all available material of all the described species in this complex is needed to determine the degree of variation of <i>P. fucatus</i>. At present only <i>P. calviniensis</i>, <i>P. i m i t a t o r</i> and <i>P. anomalus</i> can confidently be synonymised with <i>P. f u c a t u s sensu stricto</i> in addition to the two species synonymised with it by Hesse (1961).</p> <p>The female specimen from Bloemfontein in Bezzi’s collection is very similar to the lectotype male and undoubtedly belongs to the same species.</p> <p> <b>Description</b>: Lectotype male. Head. Black with yellow­grey tomentum, facial cone and underside ochreous. Hair gleaming yellow and with decumbent scale­like hair on the frons and hind borders of the eyes. Eyes separated by the width of the median ocellus immediately in front of the ocellar triangle diverging sharply to leave a relatively large triangular frontal area above the antennae. Antennal ratio 2.5:1:5 with scape yellow, pedicel brownish yellow, first flagellomere black elongate conical, second barely longer than wide and with a terminal style. Proboscis black but greater part of underside of labium orange. Palpi not visible.</p> <p>Thorax. Scutum black, pleura brownish, scutellum red. Hair even in length, dense gleaming yellow, only meron bare, paler on pleura. Bristles inconspicuous barely darker than hair.</p> <p>Legs. Yellow, including coxae, only fourth and fifth tarsomeres and articulation with trochanter blackened. Long hairs beneath femora, scales and bristles pale yellow. Claws curved beyond the middle, tips black. Pulvilli narrow, about two thirds length of claws.</p> <p>Wing. Base and fore border tinged yellow fading to greyish hyaline at apex and hind margin. Veins brown. Crossvein r­m just beyond middle of discal cell, m­m crossvein oblique to wing margin, slightly longer than r­m. Costal hook and comb yellow, comb weakly developed. Squama yellow with a long fringe of yellow hairs. Haltere yellow, knob paler than stalk.</p> <p>Abdomen. Black with pale margins to sterna. Dense yellow hair, somewhat denser at hind margins of terga, paler on sterna. Hair not paler towards apex. Genitalia not dissected. Length of body, 8 mm; of proboscis, 3 mm; of wing, 8 mm.</p> <p>Female. Very similar to lectotype except: frons parallel sided, three times width of ocellar triangle; Scutum grey tomentose with a pair darker submedian stripes; hair on pleura paler more whitish; abdominal terga with pale margins and orange at sides; abdominal terga with decumbent yellow hair­like scales at fore margins and dense stiff hairs at hind margins giving a banded appearance.</p> <p> The overall appearance of these specimens is similar to many species of <i>Systoechus</i> in colour and distribution of hair. Hesse (1938) uses the term ‘sericeous’ to describe the gleaming appearance of the hair, which changes in intensity of colour with the angle and quality of incident light. Specimens from localities in Eastern Cape, previously identified as <i>P. calviniensis</i>, are very similar to the syntype but another series from near Craddock is closer to <i>P. fucatus sensu</i> Hesse in that the males run to <i>P. pseudopsis</i> in Hesse’s (1938) key with the antennae of the males entirely black; the hair longer and very pale whitish yellow on the head and thorax; that on the abdomen includes longer, stiffer, darker hairs at the margins of the terga; and the extreme bases of the fore and mid femora are blackened. Some of the associated females have darker brown hairs at the margins of the terga and both sexes entirely black proboscis. A single male from Carlisle Bridge with a reddish scape is closest to another member of the complex, <i>P. anomalus</i> (Hesse) described from a single male from Namaqualand (north western part of Northern Cape).</p> <p> <b>Additional material examined</b>. SOUTH AFRICA (Eastern Cape): 1Ψ, Committees Drift, 17.viii.1959 (D.J. Greathead); 1ɗ2Ψ, near Fort Brown, 30.ix.1959 (D.J. Greathead); 2?, 20.xi.1959 (D.J. Greathead); 3ɗ3Ψ, 10 miles E of Craddock, 18.ix.1959 (D.J. Greathead); 1ɗ, Carlisle Bridge, 3.ix.1959 (D.J. Greathead) all DJG.</p>Published as part of <i>Greathead, David J. & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2004, New species of Bombylioidea in Mario Bezzi's Unpublished Hungarian Museum Manuscript, pp. 1-56 in Zootaxa 773</i> on pages 23-25, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/158466">10.5281/zenodo.158466</a>
Stichopogon scaliger subsp. conjungens BEZZI 1910
No full textStichopogon scaliger conjungens BEZZI 1910 M a t e r i a l: Guilan province: Rasht (Rice field), 1; 7 April 2005. New record for the Iranian fauna. D i s t r i b u t i o n: Greece, Italy, Russia, Kazakh, Soviet Middle Asia, Turkey.Published as part of Ghahari, H., Hayat, R., P. A, Lavigne, R. & Ostovan, H., 2007, Robber Flies (Diptera: Asilidae) of Iranian Rice Fields and Surrounding Grasslands, pp. 919-928 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 39 (2) on page 926, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.541684
Letter, [Author unclear] to Paulina T. Merritt
No full textHandwritten letter to Paulina Merritt from an unknown author, October 1, 1876.
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