Revision and cladistic analysis of the Neotropical Genus Thecomyia Perty (Diptera: Sciomyzidae)
Author
Marinoni, Luciane
Author
Steyskal, George C.
Author
Knutson, Lloyd
text
Zootaxa
2003
191
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.156857
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156857
6.
Thecomyia bonattoi
Marinoni and Steyskal
,
new species
(
Figs. 11
,
23
, 35, 41, 44)
Description. Adult
. Upper orbital seta absent. Frontoorbital spot rounded, width approximately 1/3 frontal width. Rostrum
0.66 in
male and
0.69 in
female as high as eye. White microtomentose infraocular marking forming a triangle with margin between gena and postgena straight. Mid femur without anteromedial seta. Mid and hind femora wholly yellowish. Mesonotum with medial gray, tripartite stripe; scutellum almost entirely yellow. Ejaculatory apodeme wide apically, anterior and posterior margins slightly concave (
Fig. 11
). Phallapodeme almost straight. Anterior basiphallic process well developed, concave, anterior part bicuspid. Epiphallus large, well developed, extending to base of distiphallus. Distiphallus with 3 processes, 2 slender and pointed, right one wide, larger; large membranous projection under distiphallus. Hypandrium in lateral view with dorsal margin slightly concave and anteroventral margin narrow, not rounded (
Fig. 23
). Anteroventral hypandrial plates in frontal view narrow, tapered laterally. Membranous projections of margins of anteroventral hypandrial plates with only a small portion visible, not extending to lateral margins of hypandrium; covered with minute hairs (
Fig. 23
). Anterior surstylus absent, posterior barlike (
Fig. 11
). Female sternites 6, 7 and 8 almost fused, longer than wide; anterior margin of sternite 6 very slightly sinuate; mid longitudinal portion less sclerotized. Spermathecal duct with sclerotized region joining spermatheca elongate; apical, digitiform projection short, but developed (Fig. 35).
Type
specimens
.
HOLOTYPE
MALE. 1. Small rectangular label: [
PANAMA
] "Corazal, Canal Zone,
21.I.1929
; 2. Small rectangular label: "collector, C.H. Curran"; 3. Yellow label: "
AMNH
"; in good condition except left flagellomere missing.
PARATYPE
FEMALE. The same labels as on the
holotype
, except for the date:
19.I.1929
; in good condition except both flagellomeres missing. Both specimens in
AMNH
.
Etymology
. The species epithet,
bonattoi
,
is a Latin genitive patronym in honor of Sionei Ricardo Bonatto, L. Marinoni's husband.