Revision and cladistic analysis of Neotropical genus Psilochlorops Duda (Diptera: Chloropidae)
Author
Riccardi, Paula Raile
Author
Amorim, Dalton De Souza
text
Zootaxa
2012
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37
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.214702
c82211fa-65f2-4cd3-b2c5-8bffeaa4f7d9
1175-5326
214702
Psilochlorops brunneus
sp. n.
(
Figs. 2, 8
,
14
,
19–21
)
Diagnosis.
Frons brown; frontal triangle brown, margins slightly sinuose, not reaching anterior margin of frons, interfrontals outside frontal triangle; occiput dark, bare; gena yellow, about 1/4 eye height. Pleural sclerites more or less homogeneously brown.
Material examined.
Holotype
.
3,
Peru
(durch Schnabl), Coll. H. Loew (
USNM
).
FIGURES 19–21.
Psilochlorops brunneus
(holotype),
sp. n. 19
. Habitus.
20
. Hypandrial complex, ventral view.
21
. Epandrium, ventral view. Legends, ep epandrium; hyp hypandrium; mes mesolobus; sur surstylus. Scale bar, 1 mm.
Description
. Total length,
4.5 mm
. Wing length,
3.7 mm
.
Male
.
Head
(
Figs. 2, 8
). Head brown dorsally, yellowish ventrally, as wide as thorax, broader than long in dorsal view, as long as high in lateral view; frontal triangle brown, margins only slightly sinuose, not reaching anterior margin of frons; occiput dark, bare; gena yellow, about 0.25 eye height, postgena about half eye height; eye oval, long axis diagonal; clypeus brownish, dusted; labella brown; palpus yellow basally, brown in the apex; face with a brown stripe ¾ ateriorly. First flagellomere yellow basally, dark brown on distal half; arista dark brown; one row of interfrontals external to frontal triangle; postocellars convergent; inner and outer verticals well–developed; more than one row of setulae at lower margin of gena, no distinct vibrissa.
Thorax
(
Figs. 14
,
19
). Scutum mostly brown, with three dark brown stripes, less than twice as long as broad, with dark pilosity; scutellum dark yellow. Pleura mostly brownish, post–pronotum yellow, with a brown mark, bristles probably broken; pleural sclerites quite homogeneously dark brown. Halter with stem brown, knob pale yellow. Legs dark yellow, hind tibia dark brown, tibial organ brownish.
Wing
. Slightly brownish. Costal sections one to four:
16-16-4-1.
R2+3 and R4+5 slightly concave; R4+5 and M1+2 paralell; M1+2 straight; r-m and dm-cu rather convergent, distant each other 2.5 as long as dm-cu.
Abdomen
(
Fig. 19
). Tergites and sternites brown, yellowish along distal margin.
Terminalia
. Hypandrium wide, with broad ventral projections weakly sclerotized (
Fig. 20
). Surstylus setose, clavate, fused to epandrium; mesolobus almost square (
Fig. 21
).
Female.
Unknown.
Comments.
The brown pleural sclerites in this species are unique in the genus, and the male terminalia also helps to clearly distinguish this species from other
Psilochlorops
.