On the identity of Prochyliza nigrimana (Meigen) and Prochyliza nigricornis (Meigen) (Diptera: Piophilidae), with a synopsis of Prochyliza Walker and description of a new species
Author
Martín-Vega, Daniel
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Zootaxa
2014
3893
2
277
292
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3893.2.7
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Prochyliza inca
McAlpine, 1977
Prochyliza inca
McAlpine 1977
: 46
.
Type
locality:
Ecuador
(Azuay).
Holotype
(♂) and
paratypes
(4 ♀) in CNC.
Material examined.
1 ♀ (
CNC
,
paratype
):
Ecuador
, Azuay, Tarqui;
07–08.iii.1965
.
1 ♂
(
CNC
):
Ecuador
, Azuay, Santa Isabel;
10–13.iii.1965
; det. A. L. Ozerov.
Diagnosis.
The two horn-like spines on the epandrium of
P. i n c a
males (
Fig. 5
D) are extremely distinctive. The following combination of characters is also distinctive of
P. i nc a
: lower quarter or less of the frons orange; gena black; front coxa entirely yellow; mid and hind femora and mid and hind tibiae mostly black; margins and fringes of calypters brownish; males with posterior margin of sternite 5 strongly emarginated.
Remarks.
According to
McAlpine (1977)
,
P. azteca
would be the most closely related species to
P. inca
. In the absence of a description for
P. azteca
male morphology, the presence of two horn-like spines on the epandrium of
P. inca
(
Fig. 5
D) appears to be an unique character among the
Piophilidae
.
Biology.
Unknown.
Distribution.
Neotropical; only recorded from
Ecuador
(
McAlpine 1977
;
Ozerov & Norrbom 2010
).