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Coenosia setosa Couri & Pont, 2016, sp. nov.

Description

Coenosia setosa sp. nov.

(Figs 3, 22–25)

Type material examined. Holotype male, ANGOLA: (A6), Tundavala, 9 mls. NW. Sa da Bandeira, 23.ii. 1972 / Southern African Exp., B.M.1972-1. Paratypes, 2 males (1 MNRJ), 2 females (1 MNRJ), same labels as holotype.

Diagnosis. Scutum and scutellum uniformly silver-grey pollinose from certain angles in male; female with three faint brown vittae; cercal plate very distinct, with long and curly hairs, and with 2 spines on ventral surface.

Description. (Fig. 3) Ground-colour brown, uniformly grey pollinose from certain angles; head with frontal vitta dark brown; ocellar triangle silver pollinose; fronto-orbital plate, face, parafacial and gena silver pollinose; antenna dark brown, tip of pedicel grey pollinose; arista brown; palpus dark brown; scutum and scutellum uniformly silvery-grey pollinose from certain angles in male; female with three faint brown vittae; calypters white; haltere yellow; wing clear; legs dark brown, coxae with grey pollinosity; abdomen uniformly silvery-grey pollinose from certain angles, concolorous with thorax in male; female with brown spots and a median vitta on all tergites; cercal plate with 2 spines and 2 submedian structures on ventral view (Fig. 24).

Male. Body length: 3.3 mm; wing length: 3 mm.

Head. Eye bare; frons very narrow; frontal row with 4 pairs of setae, and 1 pair of reclinate orbitals; inner and outer verticals short, similar in size; ocellars hair-like; antenna inserted at mid-level of eye, with postpedicel about twice the length of pedicel; arista plumose on basal half; palpus filiform.

Thorax. Acrostichal setulae short, in 4 rows, prescutellar pair not differentiated; dorsocentrals 1+3, all long, the last one longer; postpronotal 1, long; 1 presutural and 1 postsutural intra-alar, 1 postsutural supra-alar; 1 postalar; prealar absent; notopleuron with 2 setae, similar in size; anepisternum with a series of 4 long setae, 3 in the upper mid part and 1 posterior; katepisternals 1+1+1, arranged in an equilateral triangle. Scutellum with 1 long basal and 1 long apical pair of setae.

Legs. Fore femur with a complete row of setae on anterodorsal and posterodorsal surfaces; fore tibia with a long posterior median seta, 1 anterodorsal and 1 dorsal preapical, the anterodorsal very long and twice the length of the dorsal seta, 1 posterior, 1 posteroventral and 1 ventral apical, the last two longer than the dorsal seta and similar in size; mid femur with a row of short setae on basal half of anterodorsal surface, 2 anterior setae on middle third, one row of setae on basal two-thirds, 4–5 well-spaced posteroventral setae on basal two-thirds, and 1 anterodorsal and 1posterior preapical; mid tibia with 1 median posterodorsal and 1 median anteroventral, the latter longer, preapicals on dorsal, anterodorsal and posterodorsal surfaces, apicals on anteroventral, ventral and posteroventral surfaces; hind femur with an anterodorsal and an anteroventral row of setae, more spaced and fine on anteroventral surface; hind tibia with 1 anterior and 1 anterodorsal median setae, inserted at almost the same level, 1 long posterodorsal at apical third, 1 anteroventral and 1 ventral apical.

Wing. Veins bare; veins M and R4+5 parallel at wing-tip; lower calypter about twice the length of the upper one.

Abdomen. Tergite 3 with 1 lateral pair of setae; tergites 4–5 each with a marginal row of setae. Sternite 1 bare. Sternite 5 “U” shaped (Fig. 22).

Terminalia. Cercal plate as in Figs 23–24; with 2 spines and 2 submedian structures on ventral view (Fig. 24); surstylus straight, curved at apex. Aedeagal complex as in Fig. 25.

Female: Body length: 3.3 mm; wing length: 3.2 mm. Similar to male.

Etymology. The name refers to the 2 spines on the ventral surface of the cercal plate.

Discussion. C. setosa runs in Emden’s (1940) key to the C. semifumosa -group, and within this group it runs to C. semifumosa Stein, but C. setosa can be differentiated by the very peculiar male terminalia characters.

Geographical distribution. Angola.

Notes

Published as part of Couri, Marcia S. & Pont, Adrian C., 2016, Coenosia Meigen (Diptera: Muscidae) from Angola: new species and records, pp. 501-512 in Zootaxa 4103 (6) on pages 508-510, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4103.6.1, http://zenodo.org/record/399676

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Biodiversity

Family
Muscidae
Genus
Coenosia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Species
setosa
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Coenosia setosa Couri & Pont, 2016