<documentid="ACED8FB43FC4DFBC33E8CA906D8DF7E2"ID-DOI="10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a2"ID-ISSN="1638-9387"ID-Zenodo-Dep="14670952"ID-ZooBank="44C62D57-8949-492A-82C6-54EB2E52FB26"IM.bibliography_approvedBy="julia"IM.illustrations_approvedBy="julia"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="julia"IM.metadata_approvedBy="julia"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="julia"IM.treatmentCitations_approvedBy="julia"IM.treatments_approvedBy="julia"checkinTime="1737017271963"checkinUser="plazi"docAuthor="Marc, Stéphanie Boucher & Pollet, Marc"docDate="2025"docId="03EC5B27FFA4A422B68BF9D4FC5C8BC8"docLanguage="en"docName="zoosystema.2025.47.2.pdf"docOrigin="Zoosystema 47 (2)"docSource="https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/zoosystema2025v47a2.pdf"docStyle="DocumentStyle:5CC576F744449C1860B4E72ABD884631.10:Zoosystema.2020-.journal_article.type1"docStyleId="5CC576F744449C1860B4E72ABD884631"docStyleName="Zoosystema.2020-.journal_article.type1"docStyleVersion="10"docTitle="Calycomyza inselbergensis Boucher 2025, n. sp."docType="treatment"docVersion="3"lastPageNumber="21"masterDocId="FFD5235FFFACA428B505FFE6FF8C8907"masterDocTitle="New species and new records of leaf-miner flies (Diptera, Agromyzidae) from rainforest and inselberg at Mitaraka (French Guiana)"masterLastPageNumber="42"masterPageNumber="13"pageNumber="19"updateTime="1737042911296"updateUser="julia"zenodo-license-document="CC0-1.0"zenodo-license-figures="CC0-1.0"zenodo-license-treatments="UNSPECIFIED">
<mods:titleid="DB7A63013FF65A8C6725734BF96597CF">New species and new records of leaf-miner flies (Diptera, Agromyzidae) from rainforest and inselberg at Mitaraka (French Guiana)</mods:title>
<mods:affiliationid="57AFF44BBB79193CCD6CD9866FAFE9C5">Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, Macdonald Campus, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, H 9 X 3 V 9 (Canada)</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="EBD7D82BF5E84F585B9E4A1B508E6630">Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Herman Teirlinckgebouw, Havenlaan 88 bus 73, B- 1000 Brussels (Belgium) and Operational Directory Taxonomy and Phylogeny, Entomology, Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Vautierstraat 29, B- 1000 Brussels (Belgium)</mods:affiliation>
<figureCitationid="137EF6B4FFA4A420B18BF9B4FB108F6A"box="[1166,1180,1618,1645]"captionStart="FIG"captionStartId="9.[132,143,1795,1813]"captionTargetBox="[185,1346,221,1780]"captionTargetId="figure-91@9.[249,891,841,1484]"captionTargetPageId="9"captionText="FIG. 5. — Calycomyza inselbergensis Boucher,n. sp.,holotype ♂: A, phallus,lateroventral view:arrow a, referring to the length of distal tubules anterior to the ring-like sclerite; arrow b, referring to the length of mesophallus;B, phallus,lateral view;C, epandrium, latero-ventral view;D, ejaculatory apodeme.Scale bars:0.05 mm."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14670968"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/14670968/files/figure.png"pageId="8"pageNumber="19">5</figureCitation>
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by the following features: halter and notopleuron pale brown; calypter and fringe brown; orbital plate brown to lower ors; postpronotum and anepisternum almost completely brown; male genitalia with a very large ring-like sclerite at the base of distiphallus.
at midpoint; two reclinate ors and two weaker inclinate ori; orbital setulae sparse, short and reclinate, in one row; first flagellomere small, rounded apically with short white pubescence; arista long with distinct pubescence (
); two well-developed postsutural dc distant from each other, and one weaker third postsutural dc (on right side only); prsc absent; acrostichal setulae in about 7-8 rows; mid tibia with two approximate posterolateral setae; wing length approximately
); antenna brown; face apparently partly pale brown (partly hidden by the antennae); palpus brown; clypeus dull brown, paler brown centrally; mesonotum and scutellum shiny brown; postpronotum brown except for narrowly yellow hind corner; notopleuron brownish (
), slightly paler, yellowish ventrally; anepisternum, katepisternum and anepimeron brown; legs brown except for narrowly yellow fore knee; calypter and fringe brown; halter slightly darkened, pale brown (
Distiphallus in the shape of two long tubules with apical section bent to almost 90° and basal section surrounded by a large ring-like sclerite that extends far beyond the width of the tubules in ventral and lateral view (
<figureCitationid="137EF6B4FFA6A422B726FB92FD188D89"box="[547,660,1140,1167]"captionStart="FIG"captionStartId="9.[132,143,1795,1813]"captionTargetBox="[185,1346,221,1780]"captionTargetId="figure-91@9.[249,891,841,1484]"captionTargetPageId="9"captionText="FIG. 5. — Calycomyza inselbergensis Boucher,n. sp.,holotype ♂: A, phallus,lateroventral view:arrow a, referring to the length of distal tubules anterior to the ring-like sclerite; arrow b, referring to the length of mesophallus;B, phallus,lateral view;C, epandrium, latero-ventral view;D, ejaculatory apodeme.Scale bars:0.05 mm."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14670968"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/14670968/files/figure.png"pageId="10"pageNumber="21">Fig. 5A, B</figureCitation>
<figureCitationid="137EF6B4FFA6A422B7B6FB72FC8E8DA8"box="[691,770,1172,1199]"captionStart="FIG"captionStartId="9.[132,143,1795,1813]"captionTargetBox="[185,1346,221,1780]"captionTargetId="figure-91@9.[249,891,841,1484]"captionTargetPageId="9"captionText="FIG. 5. — Calycomyza inselbergensis Boucher,n. sp.,holotype ♂: A, phallus,lateroventral view:arrow a, referring to the length of distal tubules anterior to the ring-like sclerite; arrow b, referring to the length of mesophallus;B, phallus,lateral view;C, epandrium, latero-ventral view;D, ejaculatory apodeme.Scale bars:0.05 mm."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14670968"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/14670968/files/figure.png"pageId="10"pageNumber="21">Fig. 5A</figureCitation>
<figureCitationid="137EF6B4FFA6A422B76CFB52FD318DC8"box="[617,701,1204,1231]"captionStart="FIG"captionStartId="9.[132,143,1795,1813]"captionTargetBox="[185,1346,221,1780]"captionTargetId="figure-91@9.[249,891,841,1484]"captionTargetPageId="9"captionText="FIG. 5. — Calycomyza inselbergensis Boucher,n. sp.,holotype ♂: A, phallus,lateroventral view:arrow a, referring to the length of distal tubules anterior to the ring-like sclerite; arrow b, referring to the length of mesophallus;B, phallus,lateral view;C, epandrium, latero-ventral view;D, ejaculatory apodeme.Scale bars:0.05 mm."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14670968"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/14670968/files/figure.png"pageId="10"pageNumber="21">Fig. 5A</figureCitation>
<figureCitationid="137EF6B4FFA6A422B7A2FB32FD748DE9"box="[679,760,1235,1262]"captionStart="FIG"captionStartId="9.[132,143,1795,1813]"captionTargetBox="[185,1346,221,1780]"captionTargetId="figure-91@9.[249,891,841,1484]"captionTargetPageId="9"captionText="FIG. 5. — Calycomyza inselbergensis Boucher,n. sp.,holotype ♂: A, phallus,lateroventral view:arrow a, referring to the length of distal tubules anterior to the ring-like sclerite; arrow b, referring to the length of mesophallus;B, phallus,lateral view;C, epandrium, latero-ventral view;D, ejaculatory apodeme.Scale bars:0.05 mm."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14670968"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/14670968/files/figure.png"pageId="10"pageNumber="21">Fig. 5C</figureCitation>
<figureCitationid="137EF6B4FFA6A422B5DEFAF5FEA78C29"box="[219,299,1299,1326]"captionStart="FIG"captionStartId="9.[132,143,1795,1813]"captionTargetBox="[185,1346,221,1780]"captionTargetId="figure-91@9.[249,891,841,1484]"captionTargetPageId="9"captionText="FIG. 5. — Calycomyza inselbergensis Boucher,n. sp.,holotype ♂: A, phallus,lateroventral view:arrow a, referring to the length of distal tubules anterior to the ring-like sclerite; arrow b, referring to the length of mesophallus;B, phallus,lateral view;C, epandrium, latero-ventral view;D, ejaculatory apodeme.Scale bars:0.05 mm."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14670968"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/14670968/files/figure.png"pageId="10"pageNumber="21">Fig. 5C</figureCitation>
<figureCitationid="137EF6B4FFA6A422B58BFAB5FF698C69"box="[142,229,1363,1390]"captionStart="FIG"captionStartId="9.[132,143,1795,1813]"captionTargetBox="[185,1346,221,1780]"captionTargetId="figure-91@9.[249,891,841,1484]"captionTargetPageId="9"captionText="FIG. 5. — Calycomyza inselbergensis Boucher,n. sp.,holotype ♂: A, phallus,lateroventral view:arrow a, referring to the length of distal tubules anterior to the ring-like sclerite; arrow b, referring to the length of mesophallus;B, phallus,lateral view;C, epandrium, latero-ventral view;D, ejaculatory apodeme.Scale bars:0.05 mm."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14670968"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/14670968/files/figure.png"pageId="10"pageNumber="21">Fig. 5D</figureCitation>
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, apparently has the lower tubule broken off (see comment in
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), but the upper tubule is complete, and it is distinctly longer than the mesophallus, quite different from
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shows significant external differences that are diagnostic: calypter yellow with fringe partially to completely yellow; arista virtually bare; orbital plate bright yellow; and notopleuron, posterior half of postpronotum and upper posterior corner of anepisternum bright yellow. Externally
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;
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), but the male genitalia of the two species are distinct.
by the darker, distinctly black calypteral fringe and black face (
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Verbenaceae (
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, along with an additional female specimen. After reconsideration, the female specimen is not included here as a
due to uncertain conspecificity. The female differs from the male by its yellow halter, yellow face, mid tibial setae that are further apart, and a shiny brown clypeus.
