A new species of the South American genus Arthurella Albuquerque (Diptera: Muscidae), with a key to species and new records
Author
Patitucci, Luciano Damián
Author
Mariluis, Juan Carlos
Author
Aballay, Fernando Hernán
text
Zootaxa
2011
2810
56
62
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.206099
0b280f23-cc08-4575-aaf4-27dfd8858ce9
1175-5326
206099
Arthurella
Albuquerque, 1954
Arthurella
Albuquerque, 1954
:151
. Type-species:
Arthurella nudiseta
Albuquerque, 1954
, by original designation.
Diagnosis
(modified from
Couri & Penny 2007
). Eye with sparse short cilia. Arista bare; one pair of long strong ocellar setae; prosternum, anepimeron and meron setulose; dorsocentral setae 2+3-4; intra-alars 2; katepisternals 2+2; vein R1 setulose on dorsal surface; vein R4+5 setulose on both surfaces; vein R4+5 and M diverging slightly to apex; hind tibia with calcar present; sternite 1 bare.
Arthurella
can be easily distinguished from other Neotropical taxa by the presence of 2+2 katepisternal setae. A few genera of
Muscidae
(
e.g.
,
Neurotrixa
Shannon & Del Ponte
and
Lispoides
Malloch
) also have the same configuration of katepisternal setae (
Costacurta & Carvalho 2005
).