identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
86540A3AFF98C364FE9AD52BFB072ECC.text	86540A3AFF98C364FE9AD52BFB072ECC.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Villa Lioy 1864	<div><p>Genus Villa Lioy, 1864</p><p>The genus Villa is one of the largest and most widespread genera of Bombyliidae with more than 250 species on all continents except Antarctica and on many oceanic islands (Evenhuis &amp; Greathead, 1999, 2003). It belongs to the tribe Villini within the subfamily Anthracinae (keys to genera in Greathead &amp; Evenhuis, 1997, 2001). It is characterised by having a rounded, not prominent face; antenna with only one flagellomere; a relatively elongate parallel­sided body with a pattern of black, brown and yellow or whitish vestiture; usually with a well developed patagium; wing hyaline or with a simple basicostal infuscation; male genitalia with a large tongue­shaped epiphallus often bearing a pair of apical spines. The Palaearctic fauna includes several species groups with different structure of the epiphallus, first noted by François (1969). He noted that many species from Asia have a compact body, predominantly pale whitish vestiture and fine spicules on the epiphallus. The present species has these characteristics. It is similar in appearance to V. niphobleta Loew, described from Greece and known from France and Tunisia eastwards to Afghanistan, which has the coloration of the Asiatic species group but an epiphallus similar to the majority of European species with apical spines and without spicules.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/86540A3AFF98C364FE9AD52BFB072ECC	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Greathead, David J.;Karimpour, Younes	Greathead, David J., Karimpour, Younes (2006): A new species of Villa Lioy, 1864 (Diptera: Bombyliidae) parasitic on Sesiidae (Lepidoptera). Zootaxa 1156: 65-68, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172263
86540A3AFF98C366FE9AD3DEFAC229D4.text	86540A3AFF98C366FE9AD3DEFAC229D4.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Villa sesivora	<div><p>Villa sesivora sp. nov.</p><p>This species closely resembles V. niphobleta in the presence of very pale whitish vestiture and an almost completely hyaline wing but differs in the absence of black hairs and bristles, except on the frons; presence of black scales on the scutum as well as the abdominal terga; and the different epiphallus.</p><p>Description</p><p>Holotype ♂. Head. Black, only rim of oral cavity ivory. Frons twice width of ocellar tubercle at vertex, with short, fine black hairs, face with pale yellowish hairs; frons face and occiput with whitish scales, dense on lower part of frons and face, tinged yellowish on upper frons and either side of the median occipital groove. Antennal ration 2:1:3.5. Flagellum comprising a single flagellomere, conical at its basal 1/3, remainder narrow, rod­like; scape with white hairs on inner side and white and black on outer side. Proboscis as long as oral cavity, blackish with sparse, fine yellowish hairs. Palpi pale brownish with pale hairs at the base and black ones at the apex. Thorax. Black; hair white, tinged yellowish on the upper anterior margin; bristles weakly developed colourless and barely distinguishable from the hair; scales white and black at middle of scutum and base of scutellum. Legs, brownish­black; bristles black, sparse and weak; hair on coxae white, scales on femora and tibiae whitish tinged yellow, black on tarsi. Wing hyaline, except costal cell and extreme base milky whitish. Patagium and costal comb well developed, patagium silvery white, costal comb chalky white. Veins yellow at base gradually darkened to brown beyond vein MA. Venation as V. niphobleta with r­m cross­vein at one 1/3 length from base of cell dm, vein M2 angular before cross­vein m­m so that apex of dm is broad. Haltere ivory white. Abdomen (Fig. 1). Black with brownish areas at sides of terga 1–4; covered in fine white hair and scales interrupted by bands of black scales across apical 2/3 of terga 1–4 and bases of terga 5–7; black scales at sides of terga 5–6 upstanding, forming minute tufts; sterna with white hair and scales. Genitalia (Fig. 2) with gonocoxae broad proximally, epiphallus as long as gonocoxae broad and bent ventrally at apex and with three fine bristles at either side near the apex. Body length: 10 mm; wing 9 mm.</p><p>Paratype Ψ. As holotype but frons four times width of ocellar tubercle at vertex; pale hair and scales more distinctly yellowish; patagium chalky white like costal comb.</p><p>Material examined</p><p>Holotype ♂. IRAN: Urmia, N37°31’ E45°01’, vi.2004, Y. Karimpour, host Chamaesphecia schizoceriformis Kolenati (Lep. Sesiidae) [BMNH]. Paratypes 2 ♂♂, 1 Ψ, same data as holotype 1 Ψ in BMNH, 2 ♂♂ in DPPU.</p><p>Etymology</p><p>Named from the host family and Latin for devourer.</p><p>Remarks</p><p>The specimens were reared from the pupae of C. schizoceriformis which bores into the roots of Euphorbia boissieriana and pupates there. This record is of particular interest in that species of Chamaesphecia from Europe have been released in North America for control of introduced weedy members of the E. esula complex (Julien &amp; Griffiths, 1998).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/86540A3AFF98C366FE9AD3DEFAC229D4	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Greathead, David J.;Karimpour, Younes	Greathead, David J., Karimpour, Younes (2006): A new species of Villa Lioy, 1864 (Diptera: Bombyliidae) parasitic on Sesiidae (Lepidoptera). Zootaxa 1156: 65-68, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172263
