Parydra (Paranapaea) pubera Loew, 1860

Stuke, Jens-Hermann, 2025, Taxonomic and faunistic comments on European Parydra Stenhammar, 1844 (Diptera: Ephydridae) with new species from Finland and Jordan, Zootaxa 5686 (1), pp. 49-105 : 98-99

Parydra (Paranapaea) pubera Loew, 1860

( Figs. 17 , 97–100 )

Parydra pubera Loew 1860: 32 ; type-locality: „ Sicilien “ [ Italy]; syntype ♂ ♀ [SDEI, ZMB, Mathis & Zatwarnicki 1995].

Primary type material examined:

1 ♀ syntype of P. pubera in coll. ZMB with these labels: (1) “Calabr / Enber”; (2) “Coll. / H. Loew ”; (3) “14462”; (4) “ Parydra / pubera /m.”; (5) “Typus”

7♂♂ 8♀♀ syntypes of P. pubera in coll. ZMB with these labels: (1) “[illegible signs]”; (2) “Coll. / H. Loew ”; (3) “Typus” .

2♂♂ 2 ♀♀ syntypes of P. pubera , ditto but with (4) “ Parydra ♂ / pubera Lw / M. Krivosheina det., 1985”

Additional material examined: 71 specimens from France, Italy , Morocco , Netherlands and Portugal.

Diagnosis: Recognised based on the obvious long setulae all over the body ( Fig. 17 ). The male terminalia differs from all other Parydra in having dense setulae and setae at tip of the epandrium, a ring shaped, flat phallus ( Figs. 97, 99 ) and enlarged postgonites ( Fig. 97 ).

Distribution in Europe: Widely distributed but seldom recorded in Western Europe along the Mediterranean and Atlantic coast from Sicily to the Netherlands. Additionally, there are isolated records from an inland saline habitat in Germany ( Zatwarnicki & Hollmann-Schirrmacher 1997).

Biology: A halophilous species, living in vegetated saline or brackish wetlands. Polyvoltine, with a long flight period from March until September. The larval biology is currently unknown.

Figures

FIGURE 17. Habitus of Parydra pubera Loew.

FIGURES 97–100. Terminalia of Parydra pubera Loew. 97, dorsal view. 98, hypandrium, maximal expansion. 99, phallus and phallus apodeme, lateral view. 100, hypandrium with postgonite, lateral view. hy—hypandrium; pg—postgonite; ph—phallus; pha—phallus apodeme.