New species and synonymies in the genus <em>Ulidia</em> (Diptera: Ulidiidae) from the Middle East

Elena P. Kameneva; Valery A. Korneyev

Authors

Elena P. Kameneva I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Bogdan Chmielnicki St. 15, 01030 Kyiv, Ukraine. E-mail: kameneva.elena@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7986-9942
Valery A. Korneyev I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, NAS of Ukraine, Bogdan Chmielnicki St. 15, 01601 Kiev, Ukraine. E-mail: valery.korneyev@gmail.com

Keywords:

Biodiversity, Diptera, Tephritoidea, Ulidiidae, Ulidia, picture-winged flies, Asia, Middle Asia, Middle East, Palaearctic, new species, new synonymy, identification key, taxonomy

Abstract

Three new species of Ulidia Meigen, 1826—U. amnoni n. sp., U. bartaki n. sp. and U. skrylniki n. sp. from Afghanistan and Uzbekistan—are described and illustrated. The following synonymies are established: Ulidia facialis Hendel, 1931 =Ulidia salonikiensis Hering 1940, n. syn., =Timia persica Hennig 1965, n. syn., =Ulidia omani Steyskal 1970, n. syn. An improved key to species of Ulidia, with inclusion of some species currently assigned to Timia that cannot be placed to one or another genus with certainty, is provided.

Cite as: Kameneva, E.P. & Korneyev, V.A. 2019. New species and synonymies in the genus Ulidia (Diptera: Ulidiidae) from the Middle East. Israel Journal of Entomology 49 (2): 243–266.

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3559701

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