Nyctellisca nomen

Verves, Yuri G. & Khrokalo, Liudmyla A., 2019, Key to species of the genus Nyctellisca nom. nov. with description of Nyctellisca chureisica n. sp. (Diptera: Sarcophagidae: Miltogramminae), Israel Journal of Entomology 49 (1), pp. 137-142 : 138

Genus Nyctellisca nomen novum

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Nyctella Zimin, 1928: 23 (preoccupied in Hemiptera by Nyctella Reuter, 1905: 36 ). Type species: Nyctella egregia Zimin, 1928 , by monotypy.

Nyctella (Zimin) : Rohdendorf 1961: 6 (review); Rohdendorf & Verves 1980: 457 (key), 483 (key to species); Verves 1986: 80 (catalogue); 1990: 522 (key), 544 (diagnosis).

LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:10972753-DDA1-455E-81F5-58564EC38E3B .

Type species: Nyctella egregia Zimin, 1928 , authomatic.

Diagnosis: Grey small flies; body length 2.0– 3.2 mm. Head in profile angular, its lower edge distinctly shorter than head length at level of antennal base ( Fig. 1). Frons and parafacialia wide, about 0.4× of head width; genae moderately high; eyes bare; orb 1+2–7, very strong; flagellomere not more than 1.5× as long as pedicel, arista thickened in basal 0.5–0.7; vi unpaired, well differentiated from sbvi ( Fig 2). Cell r 2+3 closed at wing margin, r 4+5 long petiolate ( Fig. 3). Abdomen with dark hind dorsal spots on tergites or almost monochrome light dusted.

Remarks: Four known species occur in arid zones of the Palaearctic Asia. Ecological features are unknown; adult flies were collected with light trap at night ( Zimin 1928).