<documentid="97644C516AF5764ECF40F775F93CB879"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="felipe"IM.illustrations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.metadata_approvedBy="felipe"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="felipe"IM.treatments_approvedBy="felipe"checkinTime="1727439976157"checkinUser="plazi"docAuthor="Ramos-Pastrana, Yardany, Córdoba-Suarez, Eric & Riccardi, Paula Raile"docDate="2024"docId="9C19879A5A354E30FF246AF7FF43FB7F"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 similis Ramos-Pastrana, Córdoba-Suarez & Riccardi, 2024, sp. nov."docType="treatment"docVersion="2"lastPageNumber="442"masterDocId="6020FFE25A304E37FFB36F50FF87FF96"masterDocTitle="Three new species of Apotropina Hendel, 1907 (Diptera: Chloropidae) of the Colombian Andean-Amazon cloud forest"masterLastPageNumber="444"masterPageNumber="435"pageNumber="440"updateTime="1727441133247"updateUser="ExternalLinkService"zenodo-license-document="CLOSED">
<mods:titleid="E66F62A3586F61DC989C3C16CFEBD913">Three new species of Apotropina Hendel, 1907 (Diptera: Chloropidae) of the Colombian Andean-Amazon cloud forest</mods:title>
<mods:affiliationid="84DCC8D4E188DEE5A33684C6608BCC23">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="9F8354D8C28F054C72A9838D6241F146">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="B6C04203336D272208B1DA7B14110AE1">Riccardi, Paula Raile</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliationid="AA1DFF7D01E544A5AC0F09C9A400307F">Center for Integrative Biodiversity Discovery, Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany</mods:affiliation>
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<figureCitationid="8C8B2A095A354E32FF2C6A9BFE98FA73"box="[159,287,1483,1509]"captionStart-0="FIGURES 17–24"captionStart-1="FIGURES 25–26. 25"captionStartId-0="6.[151,264,1853,1877]"captionStartId-1="7.[151,264,1855,1879]"captionTargetBox-0="[155,1431,185,1825]"captionTargetBox-1="[154,1432,1284,1828]"captionTargetId-0="figure-26@6.[151,1435,181,1829]"captionTargetId-1="figure-470@7.[151,1435,1281,1831]"captionTargetPageId-0="6"captionTargetPageId-1="7"captionText-0="FIGURES 17–24. Apotropina similis Ramos-Pastrana, Córdoba-Suarez & Riccardi sp. nov. (LEUA-67423). Male. 17, Habitus, left lateral view, black box shows the detail of the tibial organ in the hind tibia; 18, Head, frontal view; 19, Thorax, dorsal view; 20, Wing; 21, Terminalia, lateral view; 22, Terminalia, posterior view; 23, Terminalia, ventral view; 24, Terminalia illustration, ventral view."captionText-1="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-0="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13849024"figureDoi-1="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13849028"httpUri-0="https://zenodo.org/record/13849024/files/figure.png"httpUri-1="https://zenodo.org/record/13849028/files/figure.png"pageId="5"pageNumber="440">Figs 17–26</figureCitation>
). Wider than long dorsally and longer than high in profile. Ocellar seta as long as inner and outer vertical setae. Postocellar seta cruciate, ~ equal in length to ocellar seta. Three strong fronto-orbital setae, the anterior seta ~ ½ the length of posterior setae, the two posterior setae ~ each equal in length to the ocellar seta; anterior fronto-orbital proclinate, posterior two fronto-orbitals lateroclinate. Inner vertical seta proclinate, outer vertical seta lateroclinate. Frons dark brown basally, yellowish on apical ¼, slightly wider than long, lateral margins diverging posteriorly to vertex, apical margin sinuous. Ocellar triangle extending to ~ ⅔ length of frons, posterior margin nearly as wide as frons, lateral margins straight, apex acute; macula blackish. Eye oval, long axis slightly oblique. Face pale yellow, about as high as wide; postpedicel rounded, dark brown on upper ¾, yellow on lower ¼ in external surface; arista black, 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 yellow setulae; clypeus darkened.
). Scutum ~ 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 gray brown 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 brownish yellow.
). Dark brown; fore coxa dark brown; all trochanters and anterior apex of tibiae yellowish brown, tibial organ narrow, dark gray, ~ 3.3× shorter than hind tibial length (
). Postabdominal sclerites asymmetric; syntegosternite 7+8 about as long as hypandrium; sternite 6 curved, wider mesally; sternite 5 curved, wider medially, tapering to extremes, ~ 4.5× 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 with short yellow setae, base slightly narrower than epandrial height laterally, apex acute; cercus at least 1.5× wider than long, with straight setae, one seta as long as the surstylus; cerci fused basally; anal lobe indistinct. Hypandrium with arms closed; basiphallus triangular; ~ ⅓ shorter than distiphallus; distiphallus sclerotized dorsally; pre- and postgonite equal in length; sperm pump indistinct.
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colocada a nivel de un sistema lótico (al aire) / (LEUA-67423)
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, meaning like, resembling; referring to the external morphological similarity with
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<figureCitationid="8C8B2A095A374E30FCDE6B33FC46FBEB"box="[877,961,1122,1149]"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="7"pageNumber="442">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="8C8B2A095A374E30FADC6BFBFF30FB7F"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="7"pageNumber="442">Fig. 26</figureCitation>