New fossil and extant species of Nemopalpus Macquart (Diptera: Psychodidae: Bruchomyiinae)
Author
Wagner, Rüdiger
Author
Stuckenberg, Brian R.
text
African Invertebrates
2012
2012-06-30
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.5733/afin.053.0119
journal article
10.5733/afin.053.0119
2305-2562
7917198
Nemopalpus cancer
Wagner & Stuckenberg
,
sp. n.
Figs 24, 25
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style of the male terminalia being shaped like a crab claw.
Description:
Male
.
Head
: Distance between circular eyes
ca
1.5× facet diameter.Antenna with scape, pedicel
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ca
one sixth length of the segment (according to B. Stuckenberg).A pair of mushroom-shaped ascoids, seemingly
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nd
segment.
Figs 24, 25.
Nemopalpus cancer
Wagner & Stuckenberg
,
sp. n.
: (24) wing; (25) terminalia lateral view. (All ¿JXUHV E\ %6). 6FDOH EDUV:)LJ. 24 = Ɨ PP,)LJ. 2ƽ = Ɵ.2 PP.
Thorax
: Legs missing. Wing length
4.7 mm
. Wing venation as usual, medial fork meets
r–m
cross-vein at lower distal end of the discal cell.
Abdomen
: Lacking ornamental setulae; sternum 6 slightly enlarged, 7
th
segment rotated about 90°, 8
th
segment a thin sclerotised ring, rotated another 90°. Terminalia in lateral view: aedeagus short, less than half length of gonocoxite. Sperm ducts wide in diameter.
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blunt, ventral tip sharp.
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Notes: In this new species segments 7 and 8 are probably involved in the torsion of the terminalia. The shape of the terminalia indicates a relationship to
N
.
phoenimimos
Quate & Alexander, 2000
, which is also known from
Colombia
. The inner appendage on the gonostylus of
N. cancer
sp. n.
distinguishes these species.