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Coniceromyia inflata Ament & Kung & Brown 2020, sp. nov.

  • 1. Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Departamento de Biologia, Av. Bandeirantes 3900, 14040 - 901, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil. danament @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6561 - 7277
  • 2. Entomology Section, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, United States of America. & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8099 - 6949
  • 3. Entomology Section, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, United States of America. & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6367 - 6057

Description

Coniceromyia inflata sp. nov.

(Figs. 4A, 8S, 14G, 19K, 24T)

Diagnosis (male). Costa swollen especially at R 1 insertion, short (0.34 of the wing length) (Fig. 14G); anepisternum dorsally setulose.

Material examined. Holotype ♂, BRAZIL: Acre: Iracema: Reserva Extrativista Corumbá, 09°09’02.0”S 68°58’41.0”W, 24–25.viii.2017, Malaise trap, 143m, J.E. Santos Jr. col. [UFMG 1800588].

Description. Male. Body length 1.6 mm. Head. Frons dark brown, sparsely setulose, with well-defined median furrow. Flagellomere 1 light brown, conical. Arista apical, 1.5 times longer than flagellomere 1. Palpus light brown. Gena with two setae. Thorax. Scutum, scutellum, and pleural regions brown; anepisternum dorsally setulose. Legs yellowish-brown. Foretibia with two dorsal setae and anterodorsal row of strong setulae. Foremetatarsus with anterior excavation, anteroapical setulose process with row of four strong setulae at its base and strong longer curved setula, base of excavation with group of setulae and a longer stronger seta (Fig. 8S). Foremetatarsus ratio 0.36. Posteroventral face of hind femur with broad band of tiny blunt setulae, dorsal setulae thicker (Fig. 19K). Hind femur height/length ratio 0.32. Hind tibia with one dorsal seta in basal half. Wing (Fig. 14G). Costa swollen, especially at R 1 insertion, 0.34 of the wing length; R 2+3 absent; M 1 slightly concave, curved posteriorly at apex; M 2 approximately sinuous, CuA 1 -M 2 /M 2 -M 1 ratio 0.83; CuA 1 sinuous. Halter white. Abdomen. Tergites dark brown. Hypopygium light brown. Left epandrial process short, with a dorsoapical lobe and a subepandrial setose elevation near hypoproct. Margin of right lobe of hypandrium without lateral projection. Two setae on hypoproct (Fig. 24T).

Distribution. Known from a single low-elevation site in Western Brazil.

Etymology. Name derived from the Latin word inflatus (swollen), referring to the costa swelling at R 1 insertion.

Notes

Published as part of Ament, Danilo César, Kung, Giar-Ann & Brown, Brian V., 2020, Forty-one new species of Coniceromyia Borgmeier (Diptera: Phoridae), an identification key, and new distributional records for the species of the genus, pp. 1-61 in Zootaxa 4830 (1) on page 25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4830.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4402844

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
UFMG
Event date
2017-08-24
Family
Phoridae
Genus
Coniceromyia
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
UFMG 1800588
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Ament & Kung & Brown
Species
inflata
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
2017-08-24/25
Taxonomic concept label
Coniceromyia inflata Ament, Kung & Brown, 2020