Systematics of Agrophaspidium, a new genus of Neotropical Chloropidae (Diptera)
Author
Wheeler, Terry A.
Author
Mlynarek, Julia J.
text
Zootaxa
2008
1926
41
52
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.184802
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184802
Agrophaspidium minutum
Wheeler and Mlynarek
,
sp. n.
(
Figs. 11–13
)
Description
(male only): Total length
1.5–1.6mm
. Frons brown, yellow at anterior margin; frontal triangle almost reaching anterior margin of frons, shining except for anterior apex; ocellar tubercle brown, shining; 8– 9 short fronto-orbital setae; 5 interfrontal setae, strongest pair at anterior margin of frons; ocellar bristles short, convergent; postocellar bristles strong, black, short; inner vertical bristle proclinate, dark; outer vertical bristle strong, black, similar to postocellar bristle; eye bare; genal height 0.09–0.11 times eye height; vibrissa stronger than genal setae; postgena narrow, brown; occiput brown, pollinose; face pale, pollinose; antenna pedicel yellow; first flagellomere yellow; arista brown, short pubescent; proboscis slender, yellow; palpus yellow.
Scutum mostly shining; postpronotum brown, with 1 long postpronotal setae; scutellum dark, marginal projections well-developed, pollinose; apical tubercles 0.2 times length of scutellum; sub-apical tubercles same size as apical tubercles; apical scutellar bristles 1.4 times length of tubercles, scutellar setulae pale; thoracic pleurites shining. Legs yellow except for wide brown band around middle of all femora and tibiae. Wing: ratio of second to third costal sectors 1.9–2.0:1; halter yellow with darker base. Abdomen brown.
Male postabdomen: epandrium small (
Fig. 11
); surstylus as large as epandrium, outer lobe slightly branched apically (
Fig. 12
), inner lobe absent; cercus simple, quadrate in lateral view (
Fig. 12
), narrow, triangular in posterior view (
Fig. 13
); phallus slender, blunt ended.
Type
material:
Holotype
ɗ:
PANAMA
: Canal Zone, E shore Gatun Lake, near Colón,
2–14.vii.1979
, humid forest, Tree 2, E.C. Broadhead, canopy fogging (USNM).
Paratypes
:
COSTA RICA
: Higuito, San Mateo, P. Schild (2ɗ, USNM);
PANAMA
: Canal Zone, E shore Gatun Lake, near Colón,
2–14.vii.1979
, humid forest, Tree 4, E.C. Broadhead, canopy fogging (1ɗ, USNM); Canal Zone, E shore Gatun Lake, near Colón,
2–14.vii.1979
, humid forest, Tree 7, E.C. Broadhead, canopy fogging (2ɗ, USNM).
Etymology:
The species name is from the Latin
minutus
(small), referring to the small male genitalia in this species.