<documentid="F3AF96ED69A353B4686E5F873F9F21D8"ID-DOI="10.11646/zootaxa.5512.3.7"ID-ISSN="1175-5326"ID-Zenodo-Dep="13849018"ID-ZooBank="0A55482B-7C65-480D-8BA3-FF60F84AB5EB"IM.bibliography_approvedBy="guilherme"IM.illustrations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="guilherme"IM.metadata_approvedBy="felipe"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="guilherme"IM.treatments_approvedBy="guilherme"checkinTime="1727439976157"checkinUser="plazi"docAuthor="Ramos-Pastrana, Yardany, Córdoba-Suarez, Eric & Riccardi, Paula Raile"docDate="2024"docId="9C19879A5A314E34FF246860FAE1FA73"docLanguage="en"docName="zootaxa.5512.3.7.pdf"docOrigin="Zootaxa 5512 (3)"docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5512.3.7"docStyle="DocumentStyle:647186512141C8FC8976D5BCC54AEB7D.9:Zootaxa.2013-.journal_article"docStyleId="647186512141C8FC8976D5BCC54AEB7D"docStyleName="Zootaxa.2013-.journal_article"docStyleVersion="9"docTitle="Apotropina longicerci Ramos-Pastrana, Córdoba-Suarez & Riccardi, 2024, sp. nov."docType="treatment"docVersion="3"lastPageNumber="438"masterDocId="6020FFE25A304E37FFB36F50FF87FF96"masterDocTitle="Three new species of Apotropina Hendel, 1907 (Diptera: Chloropidae) of the Colombian Andean-Amazon cloud forest"masterLastPageNumber="444"masterPageNumber="435"pageNumber="436"updateTime="1727704630546"updateUser="guilherme"zenodo-license-document="CLOSED">
<mods:titleid="2F9C9146BC8A77620F3AEB4C9693B3BC">Three new species of Apotropina Hendel, 1907 (Diptera: Chloropidae) of the Colombian Andean-Amazon cloud forest</mods:title>
<mods:affiliationid="54790FB1BFE87732D9A6FF2A666DA0AA">Universidad de la Amazonia, Grupo de Investigación en Entomología Universidad de la Amazonia - GIEUA-, Laboratorio de Entomología - LEUA-, Av. 11 5 - 69 Juan XXIII, Florencia, Caquetá, Colombia</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="ED367BCA457F6AD3374C23985EB58896">Universidad de la Amazonia, Grupo de Investigación en Entomología Universidad de la Amazonia - GIEUA-, Laboratorio de Entomología - LEUA-, Av. 11 5 - 69 Juan XXIII, Florencia, Caquetá, Colombia</mods:affiliation>
<mods:namePartid="FF3886A255B2E1C38E66C3731C837601">Riccardi, Paula Raile</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliationid="B2829E5D7EF11846845D2908200B12CB">Center for Integrative Biodiversity Discovery, Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany</mods:affiliation>
<taxonomicNameid="D3B04D0F5A314E36FF246860FE27F8DD"authorityName="Ramos-Pastrana & Córdoba-Suarez & Riccardi"authorityYear="2024"box="[151,416,1840,1867]"class="Insecta"family="Chloropidae"genus="Apotropina"kingdom="Animalia"order="Diptera"pageId="1"pageNumber="436"phylum="Arthropoda"rank="species"species="longicerci"status="sp. nov.">
<figureCitationid="8C8B2A095A314E36FF2C6804FE83F8F9"box="[159,260,1876,1903]"captionStart="FIGURES 1–8"captionStartId="2.[151,264,1907,1931]"captionTargetBox="[162,1426,238,1877]"captionTargetId="figure-61@2.[158,1430,234,1881]"captionTargetPageId="2"captionText="FIGURES 1–8. Apotropina longicerci Ramos-Pastrana, Córdoba-Suarez & Riccardi sp. nov. (LEUA-67440). Male. 1, Habitus, left lateral view, black box shows the detail of the tibial organ in the hind tibia; 2, Head, frontal view; 3, Thorax, dorsal view; 4, Wing; 5, Terminalia, lateral view; 6, Terminalia, posterior view; 7, Terminalia, ventral view; 8, Terminalia illustration, ventral view, the red arrow indicates the central lobe on the inner margin of sternite 6."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13849020"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13849020/files/figure.png"pageId="1"pageNumber="436">Figs 1–8</figureCitation>
<figureCitationid="8C8B2A095A314E36FEA36804FEDFF8F9"box="[272,344,1876,1903]"captionStart="FIGURES 25–26. 25"captionStartId="7.[151,264,1855,1879]"captionTargetBox="[154,1432,1284,1828]"captionTargetId="figure-470@7.[151,1435,1281,1831]"captionTargetPageId="7"captionText="FIGURES 25–26. 25, Geographical occurrence for all species of Apotropina of the Colombia; 26, Malaise trap stretched across small stream in habitat of Apotropina longicerci Ramos-Pastrana, Córdoba-Suarez & Riccardi sp. nov., A. ruidosa Ramos- Pastrana, Córdoba-Suarez & Riccardi sp. nov. and A. similis Ramos-Pastrana, Córdoba-Suarez & Riccardi sp. nov."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13849028"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13849028/files/figure.png"pageId="1"pageNumber="436">25–26</figureCitation>
<figureCitationid="8C8B2A095A314E36FBF168CCFB03F821"box="[1090,1156,1948,1975]"captionStart="FIGURES 1–8"captionStartId="2.[151,264,1907,1931]"captionTargetBox="[162,1426,238,1877]"captionTargetId="figure-61@2.[158,1430,234,1881]"captionTargetPageId="2"captionText="FIGURES 1–8. Apotropina longicerci Ramos-Pastrana, Córdoba-Suarez & Riccardi sp. nov. (LEUA-67440). Male. 1, Habitus, left lateral view, black box shows the detail of the tibial organ in the hind tibia; 2, Head, frontal view; 3, Thorax, dorsal view; 4, Wing; 5, Terminalia, lateral view; 6, Terminalia, posterior view; 7, Terminalia, ventral view; 8, Terminalia illustration, ventral view, the red arrow indicates the central lobe on the inner margin of sternite 6."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13849020"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13849020/files/figure.png"pageId="1"pageNumber="436">Fig. 1</figureCitation>
<figureCitationid="8C8B2A095A314E36FEC06890FE30F84D"box="[371,439,1984,2011]"captionStart="FIGURES 1–8"captionStartId="2.[151,264,1907,1931]"captionTargetBox="[162,1426,238,1877]"captionTargetId="figure-61@2.[158,1430,234,1881]"captionTargetPageId="2"captionText="FIGURES 1–8. Apotropina longicerci Ramos-Pastrana, Córdoba-Suarez & Riccardi sp. nov. (LEUA-67440). Male. 1, Habitus, left lateral view, black box shows the detail of the tibial organ in the hind tibia; 2, Head, frontal view; 3, Thorax, dorsal view; 4, Wing; 5, Terminalia, lateral view; 6, Terminalia, posterior view; 7, Terminalia, ventral view; 8, Terminalia illustration, ventral view, the red arrow indicates the central lobe on the inner margin of sternite 6."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13849020"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13849020/files/figure.png"pageId="1"pageNumber="436">Fig. 1</figureCitation>
); all legs with basal apex of femur and tibia yellow, tibial organ narrow, yellow, ~ 3× shorter than hind tibial length, hind tibial spur indistinct (
<figureCitationid="8C8B2A095A324E35FCA96FC7FCDCFF27"box="[794,859,151,177]"captionStart="FIGURES 1–8"captionStartId="2.[151,264,1907,1931]"captionTargetBox="[162,1426,238,1877]"captionTargetId="figure-61@2.[158,1430,234,1881]"captionTargetPageId="2"captionText="FIGURES 1–8. Apotropina longicerci Ramos-Pastrana, Córdoba-Suarez & Riccardi sp. nov. (LEUA-67440). Male. 1, Habitus, left lateral view, black box shows the detail of the tibial organ in the hind tibia; 2, Head, frontal view; 3, Thorax, dorsal view; 4, Wing; 5, Terminalia, lateral view; 6, Terminalia, posterior view; 7, Terminalia, ventral view; 8, Terminalia illustration, ventral view, the red arrow indicates the central lobe on the inner margin of sternite 6."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13849020"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13849020/files/figure.png"pageId="2"pageNumber="437">Fig. 1</figureCitation>
<figureCitationid="8C8B2A095A324E35FB0F6FC7FA86FF27"box="[1212,1281,150,177]"captionStart="FIGURES 1–8"captionStartId="2.[151,264,1907,1931]"captionTargetBox="[162,1426,238,1877]"captionTargetId="figure-61@2.[158,1430,234,1881]"captionTargetPageId="2"captionText="FIGURES 1–8. Apotropina longicerci Ramos-Pastrana, Córdoba-Suarez & Riccardi sp. nov. (LEUA-67440). Male. 1, Habitus, left lateral view, black box shows the detail of the tibial organ in the hind tibia; 2, Head, frontal view; 3, Thorax, dorsal view; 4, Wing; 5, Terminalia, lateral view; 6, Terminalia, posterior view; 7, Terminalia, ventral view; 8, Terminalia illustration, ventral view, the red arrow indicates the central lobe on the inner margin of sternite 6."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13849020"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13849020/files/figure.png"pageId="2"pageNumber="437">Fig. 5</figureCitation>
<figureCitationid="8C8B2A095A324E35FBA66FEBFBFCFF43"box="[1045,1147,187,213]"captionStart="FIGURES 1–8"captionStartId="2.[151,264,1907,1931]"captionTargetBox="[162,1426,238,1877]"captionTargetId="figure-61@2.[158,1430,234,1881]"captionTargetPageId="2"captionText="FIGURES 1–8. Apotropina longicerci Ramos-Pastrana, Córdoba-Suarez & Riccardi sp. nov. (LEUA-67440). Male. 1, Habitus, left lateral view, black box shows the detail of the tibial organ in the hind tibia; 2, Head, frontal view; 3, Thorax, dorsal view; 4, Wing; 5, Terminalia, lateral view; 6, Terminalia, posterior view; 7, Terminalia, ventral view; 8, Terminalia illustration, ventral view, the red arrow indicates the central lobe on the inner margin of sternite 6."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13849020"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13849020/files/figure.png"pageId="2"pageNumber="437">Figs 7–8</figureCitation>
<taxonomicNameid="D3B04D0F5A324E35FE8C6823FC6BF81D"authority="Ramos-Pastrana, Cordoba-Suarez & Riccardi"authorityName="Ramos-Pastrana, Cordoba-Suarez & Riccardi"authorityYear="2024"box="[319,1004,1907,1931]"class="Insecta"family="Chloropidae"genus="Apotropina"kingdom="Animalia"order="Diptera"pageId="2"pageNumber="437"phylum="Arthropoda"rank="species"species="longicerci"status="sp. nov.">
<figureCitationid="8C8B2A095A334E34FED76FEBFE4DFF43"box="[356,458,187,213]"captionStart="FIGURES 1–8"captionStartId="2.[151,264,1907,1931]"captionTargetBox="[162,1426,238,1877]"captionTargetId="figure-61@2.[158,1430,234,1881]"captionTargetPageId="2"captionText="FIGURES 1–8. Apotropina longicerci Ramos-Pastrana, Córdoba-Suarez & Riccardi sp. nov. (LEUA-67440). Male. 1, Habitus, left lateral view, black box shows the detail of the tibial organ in the hind tibia; 2, Head, frontal view; 3, Thorax, dorsal view; 4, Wing; 5, Terminalia, lateral view; 6, Terminalia, posterior view; 7, Terminalia, ventral view; 8, Terminalia illustration, ventral view, the red arrow indicates the central lobe on the inner margin of sternite 6."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13849020"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13849020/files/figure.png"pageId="3"pageNumber="438">Figs 1–2</figureCitation>
). Wider than long dorsally and longer than high in profile. Ocellar seta as long as inner and outer vertical setae. Postocellar seta cruciate, ~ ⅔ the length of ocellar seta. Three strong fronto-orbital setae, the anterior seta ~ ½ the length of the posterior setae, the two posterior setae ~ each equal to length of the ocellar seta; the anterior fronto-orbital seta proclinate, the two posterior fronto-orbital setae lateroclinate. Inner vertical seta proclinate, outer vertical seta lateroclinate. Frons dark brown basally, apical ¼ yellow, slightly wider than long, lateral margins diverging posteriorly to ocellar triangle, apical margin sinuous. Ocellar triangle extending to ~ ⅔ length of frons, posterior margin nearly as wide as frons, lateral margins straight, apex acute. Eye oval, long axis slightly oblique. Face pale yellow, about as high as wide; postpedicel rounded, brown on upper ¾, yellow on lower ¼ in external surface; arista dark brown, with short, sparse pubescence, as long as ½ frons; genal height equal to height of postpedicel, with whitish pruinosity; one vibrissa; occiput and postgena dark brown; proboscis brown; palpus yellow with black setulae; clypeus darkened.
<figureCitationid="8C8B2A095A334E34FCBE6D73FCF1FDAB"box="[781,886,547,573]"captionStart="FIGURES 1–8"captionStartId="2.[151,264,1907,1931]"captionTargetBox="[162,1426,238,1877]"captionTargetId="figure-61@2.[158,1430,234,1881]"captionTargetPageId="2"captionText="FIGURES 1–8. Apotropina longicerci Ramos-Pastrana, Córdoba-Suarez & Riccardi sp. nov. (LEUA-67440). Male. 1, Habitus, left lateral view, black box shows the detail of the tibial organ in the hind tibia; 2, Head, frontal view; 3, Thorax, dorsal view; 4, Wing; 5, Terminalia, lateral view; 6, Terminalia, posterior view; 7, Terminalia, ventral view; 8, Terminalia illustration, ventral view, the red arrow indicates the central lobe on the inner margin of sternite 6."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13849020"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13849020/files/figure.png"pageId="3"pageNumber="438">Figs 1, 3</figureCitation>
). Scutum dark brown, ~ 1.2× longer than wide, pruinose; postpronotal lobe concolorous with scutum, with two long setae equal in length to notopleural setae; 1+1 notopleural setae; 5 strong dorsocentral setae, prescutellar dorsocentral seta ~ 2× longer than remaining dorsocentral setae; pleuron with grey pruinosity; katepisternun with pale setulae. Scutellum concolorous with scutum, with black pilosity, apical scutellar seta ~ 3× longer than subapical scutellar seta. Halter stem brown, knob pale yellow.
<figureCitationid="8C8B2A095A334E34FF5A6D87FEB6FD67"box="[233,305,727,753]"captionStart="FIGURES 1–8"captionStartId="2.[151,264,1907,1931]"captionTargetBox="[162,1426,238,1877]"captionTargetId="figure-61@2.[158,1430,234,1881]"captionTargetPageId="2"captionText="FIGURES 1–8. Apotropina longicerci Ramos-Pastrana, Córdoba-Suarez & Riccardi sp. nov. (LEUA-67440). Male. 1, Habitus, left lateral view, black box shows the detail of the tibial organ in the hind tibia; 2, Head, frontal view; 3, Thorax, dorsal view; 4, Wing; 5, Terminalia, lateral view; 6, Terminalia, posterior view; 7, Terminalia, ventral view; 8, Terminalia illustration, ventral view, the red arrow indicates the central lobe on the inner margin of sternite 6."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13849020"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13849020/files/figure.png"pageId="3"pageNumber="438">Fig. 4</figureCitation>
<figureCitationid="8C8B2A095A334E34FC016DABFC74FC83"box="[946,1011,763,789]"captionStart="FIGURES 1–8"captionStartId="2.[151,264,1907,1931]"captionTargetBox="[162,1426,238,1877]"captionTargetId="figure-61@2.[158,1430,234,1881]"captionTargetPageId="2"captionText="FIGURES 1–8. Apotropina longicerci Ramos-Pastrana, Córdoba-Suarez & Riccardi sp. nov. (LEUA-67440). Male. 1, Habitus, left lateral view, black box shows the detail of the tibial organ in the hind tibia; 2, Head, frontal view; 3, Thorax, dorsal view; 4, Wing; 5, Terminalia, lateral view; 6, Terminalia, posterior view; 7, Terminalia, ventral view; 8, Terminalia illustration, ventral view, the red arrow indicates the central lobe on the inner margin of sternite 6."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13849020"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13849020/files/figure.png"pageId="3"pageNumber="438">Fig. 1</figureCitation>
). Dark brown; fore coxa dark yellow, darker posteriorly; fore and mid trochanters yellow; all legs with anterior apex of femur, tibia and first tarsomere yellow; tibial organ narrow, yellow, ~ 3× shorter than hind tibia length (
<figureCitationid="8C8B2A095A334E34FC1E6C13FC6AFCCB"box="[941,1005,835,861]"captionStart="FIGURES 1–8"captionStartId="2.[151,264,1907,1931]"captionTargetBox="[162,1426,238,1877]"captionTargetId="figure-61@2.[158,1430,234,1881]"captionTargetPageId="2"captionText="FIGURES 1–8. Apotropina longicerci Ramos-Pastrana, Córdoba-Suarez & Riccardi sp. nov. (LEUA-67440). Male. 1, Habitus, left lateral view, black box shows the detail of the tibial organ in the hind tibia; 2, Head, frontal view; 3, Thorax, dorsal view; 4, Wing; 5, Terminalia, lateral view; 6, Terminalia, posterior view; 7, Terminalia, ventral view; 8, Terminalia illustration, ventral view, the red arrow indicates the central lobe on the inner margin of sternite 6."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13849020"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13849020/files/figure.png"pageId="3"pageNumber="438">Fig. 1</figureCitation>
<figureCitationid="8C8B2A095A334E34FF2C6C37FF63FC17"box="[159,228,871,897]"captionStart="FIGURES 1–8"captionStartId="2.[151,264,1907,1931]"captionTargetBox="[162,1426,238,1877]"captionTargetId="figure-61@2.[158,1430,234,1881]"captionTargetPageId="2"captionText="FIGURES 1–8. Apotropina longicerci Ramos-Pastrana, Córdoba-Suarez & Riccardi sp. nov. (LEUA-67440). Male. 1, Habitus, left lateral view, black box shows the detail of the tibial organ in the hind tibia; 2, Head, frontal view; 3, Thorax, dorsal view; 4, Wing; 5, Terminalia, lateral view; 6, Terminalia, posterior view; 7, Terminalia, ventral view; 8, Terminalia illustration, ventral view, the red arrow indicates the central lobe on the inner margin of sternite 6."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13849020"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13849020/files/figure.png"pageId="3"pageNumber="438">Fig. 1</figureCitation>
<figureCitationid="8C8B2A095A334E34FD396C37FD73FC17"box="[650,756,870,897]"captionStart="FIGURES 1–8"captionStartId="2.[151,264,1907,1931]"captionTargetBox="[162,1426,238,1877]"captionTargetId="figure-61@2.[158,1430,234,1881]"captionTargetPageId="2"captionText="FIGURES 1–8. Apotropina longicerci Ramos-Pastrana, Córdoba-Suarez & Riccardi sp. nov. (LEUA-67440). Male. 1, Habitus, left lateral view, black box shows the detail of the tibial organ in the hind tibia; 2, Head, frontal view; 3, Thorax, dorsal view; 4, Wing; 5, Terminalia, lateral view; 6, Terminalia, posterior view; 7, Terminalia, ventral view; 8, Terminalia illustration, ventral view, the red arrow indicates the central lobe on the inner margin of sternite 6."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13849020"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13849020/files/figure.png"pageId="3"pageNumber="438">Figs 5–8</figureCitation>
). Postabdominal sclerites asymmetric; syntergosternite 7+8 about as long as hypandrium; sternite 6 curved, as wide as sternite 5, with a lobe on inner margin medially; sternite 5 curved, wider medially, tapering to extremes, ~ 5× longer than wide. Epandrium brown, fusiform in profile, with brown pilosity, without laterobasal projection; subepandrial sclerite V-shaped, base narrower than cerci; surstylus with apical half yellow and with short, yellow setae, base slightly narrower than epandrial in profile, apex broad and round; cercus at least 2× longer than wide, with curved setae ~ 1.5× as long as surstylus, cerci basally fused; anal lobe indistinct. Hypandrium with arms closed; basiphallus slightly oval, as long as distiphallus; distiphallus sclerotized ventrally; pre- and postgonite equal in length; sperm pump indistinct.
The specific epithet refers to “Latin, longus, meaning long + cerci, referring to the genitalic structure; a noun in apposition; in reference to the long cerci in the male”.
<figureCitationid="8C8B2A095A334E34FCDE6AD3FC46FA0B"box="[877,961,1410,1437]"captionStart="FIGURES 25–26. 25"captionStartId="7.[151,264,1855,1879]"captionTargetBox="[154,1432,1284,1828]"captionTargetId="figure-470@7.[151,1435,1281,1831]"captionTargetPageId="7"captionText="FIGURES 25–26. 25, Geographical occurrence for all species of Apotropina of the Colombia; 26, Malaise trap stretched across small stream in habitat of Apotropina longicerci Ramos-Pastrana, Córdoba-Suarez & Riccardi sp. nov., A. ruidosa Ramos- Pastrana, Córdoba-Suarez & Riccardi sp. nov. and A. similis Ramos-Pastrana, Córdoba-Suarez & Riccardi sp. nov."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13849028"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13849028/files/figure.png"pageId="3"pageNumber="438">Fig. 25</figureCitation>
The specimens were collected in a Malaise trap placed over a creek in the low montane rainforest with dense secondary vegetation in the Andean-Amazonian transition corridor of
<figureCitationid="8C8B2A095A334E34FAB66A9BFADDFA73"box="[1285,1370,1483,1509]"captionStart="FIGURES 25–26. 25"captionStartId="7.[151,264,1855,1879]"captionTargetBox="[154,1432,1284,1828]"captionTargetId="figure-470@7.[151,1435,1281,1831]"captionTargetPageId="7"captionText="FIGURES 25–26. 25, Geographical occurrence for all species of Apotropina of the Colombia; 26, Malaise trap stretched across small stream in habitat of Apotropina longicerci Ramos-Pastrana, Córdoba-Suarez & Riccardi sp. nov., A. ruidosa Ramos- Pastrana, Córdoba-Suarez & Riccardi sp. nov. and A. similis Ramos-Pastrana, Córdoba-Suarez & Riccardi sp. nov."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13849028"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13849028/files/figure.png"pageId="3"pageNumber="438">Fig. 26</figureCitation>
