Mesorhaga adunca Van Duzee
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Mesorhaga adunca Van Duzee (Fig. 2 a)
Condylostylus aduncus Van Duzee 1933: 1.
Type material. Van Duzee described this species as Condylostylus aduncus, wheras it clearly is Mesorhaga, a genus he would have known from his previous work. Robinson (1970) correctly referred this species to Mesorhaga. The male holotype (AMNH, examined) was collected in Guatemala: Guatalon, Moca, 1000 m, iii–iv.1931, J. Bequaert.
Description. Male: body length: 3.9 mm. wing: 3.8 x 1.6 mm.
Head: 3 long postvertical setae present, in line with the postoculars and curving over ocellar tubercle; strong proclinate vertical setae present on lateral frons; vertex, frons, face, and clypeus metallic green, shining, with little pruinosity; antenna black; first flagellomere rounded, subrectangular; arista dorsal, shorter than head height; ventral postcranium with abundant black setae.
Thorax: metallic green with bronze reflections; setae black; pleura with some grey pruinosity; 4 offset pairs long ac present; median scutellars about two- thirds length of medians.
Legs: all coxae dark brown; coxa I with some metallic green reflections; trochanters, femora and all leg III, and tarsi I and II brown; tibiae I & II yellowish; CI and CII with black anterior hairs, CIII with black lateral seta; femora with long, dark brownish, ventral and pv hairs along length; tibiae bare of major setae. I: 4.8; 4.3; 2.7/ 1.0/ 0.7/ 0.5/ 0.4. II: 5.8; 6.4; 4.0/ 1.4/ 1.0/ 0.6/ 0.5. III: 6.3; 7.8; 3.1/ 2.1/ 1.1/ 0.7/ 0.5.
Wing: membrane hyaline; veins pale brown; anal angle well developed; M with almost right-angle bend halfway between dm-cu crossvein and wing apex; CuAx ratio: 0.7; lower calypter dark brown, with fan of black setae; halter dark brown.
Abdomen: terga metallic blue-green, covered with short, dark setae dorsally, with pale setae ventrally and on sterna; with dark, bronze-brown bands present on tergal overlap of segments 2–6; tergum 1 with posterolateral row of long, black setae; hypopygium dark brown (Fig. 2 a), epandrial lobes ovate, with setae at 1/2 and apex; cercus curved, with apical tuft of setae on subrectangular projection.
Female: unknown.
Remarks. Mesorhaga adunca is known from the type locality at 1000 m in Guatemala. This species has relatively long legs when compared to its Mesoamerican congeners.
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Published as part of Bickel, Daniel J., 2007, The Mesoamerican Mesorhaga (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), with a taxonomic conspectus of the New World fauna, pp. 47-67 in Zootaxa 1411 on page 59, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.175599Files
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Dolichopodidae
- Genus
- Mesorhaga
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Van Duzee
- Species
- adunca
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- species
References
- Van Duzee, M. C. (1933) New Dolichopidae from North America with notes on several described species. American Museum Novitates, 599, 1 - 22.
- Robinson, H. (1970) Family Dolichopodidae. A Catalogue of the Diptera of the Americas South of the United States, 40, 1 - 92.