Revision of Afrotropical Chonocephalus Wandolleck (Diptera: Phoridae)
Author
Disney, R. H. L.
text
Journal of Natural History
2005
2005-02-28
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930410001708680
journal article
10.1080/00222930410001708680
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Chonocephalus steineri
sp. nov.
(
Figures 59–62
)
Material
Holotype
: male,
Madagascar
,
Fianarantsoa
,
7 km
W
Ranomafana
,
20.83
°
S
,
44.7
°
E
,
1100 m
,
1–7 November 1988
,
W. E. Steiner
(
LACM
Ent 039841—26-57)
.
Paratype
: male, as
holotype
(Ent 039883).
Etymology
Named after the collector, W. E. Steiner.
Male
Frons, scutellum and abdominal tergites brown, rest of thorax paler. Postpedicels and palps light brown. The latter with many hairs and longer, but fine, apical hair. Femora yellowish brown. Rest of legs straw yellow variably lightly tinged brown. Wing length 1.4 mm. Costal index 0.64–0.65. Membrane tinged grey. Hypopygium chestnut brown and relatively large. Surstylus, lower left side of epandrium, hypandrial lobes and gonopods as
Figures 59–62
.