Parasitoid phorid flies (Diptera: Phoridae) from the threatened leafcutter ant Atta robusta Borgmeier (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Author
Brown, Brian V.
Author
Braganca, Marcos A. L.
Author
Gomes, Diego S.
Author
Queiros, Jarbas M.
Author
Teixeira, Marcos C.
text
Zootaxa
2012
3385
33
38
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.281755
0ebc5e5d-ddc5-49e1-8a6a-c4c14cd76efd
1175-5326
281755
Eibesfeldtphora breviloba
Brown
new species
Fig. 1
.
Diagnosis.
This species is distinctive by the thin elongate dorsal process and shorter, but still thin ventral process of the oviscape. It is most similar to
E. tonhascai
(Brown)
, differing in the much shorter ventral process, and to
E. declinata
(Borgmeier)
, differing by the thinner processes of the oviscape. In the key of
Brown (2001)
,
E. breviloba
keys to couplets 5, where it comes closest to
E. tonhascai
.
Description.
Female. Body length
2.1–2.6 mm
. Apex of foretarsomere 5 not narrowed. Costa ratio 0.41–0.44 wing length. Oviscape with two short processes; dorsal process dorsoventrally flattened in posterior view; ventral process rounded in posterior view, largely fused to oviscape. Both processes with fine apical setae.
Derivation of specific epithet. Named for the short lobes of the oviscape.
Holotype
. Ƥ,
BRAZIL
: Rio de Janeiro,
23°01’S
,
43°28’W
),
10.i.2010
, D. da Silva Gomes [barcode: LACM ENT 305110] (MZSP).
Paratypes
. 2 Ƥ, same data as
holotype
(LACM, MZSP).