Revision of Afrotropical Pachycerina Macquart (Diptera: Lauxaniidae)
Author
Davies, Gregory B. P.
Author
Miller, Raymond M.
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Pachycerina gabela
sp. n.
Figs 26
,
32
,
41
Etymology: Named after the
type
locality. Gabela is a celebrated area of faunal endemism centered on the subtropical escarpment forests in north-western
Angola
.
Diagnosis: Identifiable by its black abdomen (both sexes), absence of any T6 spots and shape of male S5.
P. gabela
is the only mainland African species to lack the paired T6 spots. Other features are the large black ocellar spot, large black prefrontal spots, long yellow postpedicel, very faintly infuscated scape and pedicel, and that only the protarsus is darkened.
Description:
Head
: Prefrontal spots large and black. Ocellar spot large and black. Fronto-orbital plates not infuscated. Postpedicel yellow, scape and pedicel light orange.
Thorax
: Acrostichal, dorsocentral and presutural vittae present (pattern indistinct on
holotype
). Scutellum yellow, no stripes. Upper and lower lateral vittae present. Profemur and protibia yellow, protarsus blackish. Other legs yellow. Wing with faint infuscation in costal cell, stigma and marginal cell. Haltere yellow-orange, slightly darkened knob.
Abdomen
: Black, but syntergite 1+2 with slight yellow tinge.
Male terminalia (
Figs 26
,
32
,
41
): S5 with straight posterior processes and medial spur. T6 without paired spots. Surstyli fairly short (slightly longer than epandrium). Gonopods asymmetric, left gonopod slightly shorter than right gonopod. Both gonopods with lateral spinules.
Measurements
: ơ (n=2), ^(n=2): head length – ơ 0.8, ^0.7; thorax length (incl. scutellum) – ơ 2.1 (2.0–2.1), ^1.9; abdomen length – ơ 1.8, ^1.8 (1.7–1.9); wing length – ơ 3.7, ^3.5.
Holotype
: ơ
ANGOLA
:
Cuanza Sol
:
7 miles
west of
Gabela
[
10°48'S
:
14°25'E
],
16–18.iii.1972
(
BMNH
)
.
Other material examined
:
ANGOLA
: 2ơ 2^same data as holotype (
BMNH
)
;
2ơ
3 miles
south-west of
Salazar
,
15.iii.1972
(
BMNH
)
;
1ơ
1^Salazar
,
9–15.iii.1972
(
BMNH
)
.
SOUTH AFRICA
:
Limpopo
: 1ơ
Mariepskop
[
24°31'S
:
30°52'E
],
8.iv.1964
(
NMSA
)
;
Ofcolaco
[
24°06'S
:
30°23'E
],
Selati R.
,
7–8.xii.1976
,
R.M. Miller
(
NMSA
)
.