Diadelophora, a new phorid genus from central and western Brazil (Diptera: Phoridae)
Author
Ament, Danilo César
text
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5415.1.6
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Diadelophora inornata
sp. nov.
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E1ACAF57-4262-4B5D-9D06-AB90CD09A723
(
Figs. 3C
,
4
,
5B
)
Material examined
.
Holotype
♁,
BRAZIL
:
Minas Gerais
:
Porteirinha
:
Parque Estadual de Serra Nova
,
15°43'18.4"S
43°50'22.1"W
,
7–13.xii.2015
,
Malaise trap
,
1044m
,
Diversidade Aculeata Serra do Espinhaço
, L. N
. Perillo col. (
UFMG
IDI 1800988
,
SISBIO 42055-2
)
.
Paratype
: 1♁, same but
15°43'15.0"S
43°50'16.3"W
,
1040 m
(
UFMG
IDI 1800990
,
SISBIO 42055-2
)
.
Diagnosis
. Smaller,
1.65 mm
of body length, abdominal segments 3–5 with few short ventral setae, distiphallus without long curved process, epiphallus with rounded and pointed scales.
Description
. Male. Body length
1.65 mm
(
Fig. 4A
).
Head
. Frons brown to dark brown, shiny, sparsely setulose, without median furrow (
Fig. 4B
). Flagellomere 1 yellowish-brown, large, conical. Palpus light brown, with small ventral setulae. Gena with small setulae.
Thorax
. Scutum, scutellum and pleural regions brown to dark brown, shiny; pleural sclerites almost completely bare (
Fig. 4D
). All coxae and femora brown as well as mid- and hind tibia; foretibia and all tarsi contrastingly yellowish-brown. Lateral parapsidal suture ending less than one spiracle in length distant from the anterior spiracle, meron dorsally slightly convex (
Fig. 4D
). Fore and midtibia without discernible rows or palisades of setulae (
Fig. 4G–H
). Foretarsomere 5 longer than foretarsomere 4. Hind femur dorso-ventrally narrow, height/length ratio 0.23, with basoventral row of elongated thin setae (
Fig. 4F
). Hind tibia with a subtle dorsal palisade of setulae (
Fig. 4I
).
Wing
(
Fig. 4E
). Costa apically swollen, 0.46 of the wing length; R
2+3
vestigial as a tiny remnant attached to Costa; M
1
and M
2
sinuous, CuA
1
-M
2
/M
2
-M
1
ratio 1.69; CuA
1
sinuous. Halter light brown.
Abdomen
. Tergites dark brown, shiny, setulose. Venter of segments 3–5 with few short setae. Hypopygium brown, large, without conspicuous differences to
D. stilbella
.
Phallus
(
Figs. 3C
). Basiphallus approximately ring-shaped. Epiphallus membranous, with rounded and pointed scales. Remainder of distiphallus extremely complex, without long curved process.
Distribution
. Known from a single site in central-northeast
Brazil
.
Etymology
. Derived from the Latin word
inornatus
(unadorned) referring to the absence of the striking features of the diagnosis of
D. stilbella
.