Revision of the Neotropical genus Coroichlorops Paganelli 2002 (Diptera: Chloropidae)
Author
Riccardi, Paula Raile
Author
Amorim, Dalton De Souza
text
Zootaxa
2016
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4093.3.9
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Coroichlorops antennatus
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 10–16
)
Diagnosis.
First flagellomere reniform, with an elongate sensorial pit; arista flat; scutum with five orange, clearly distinguishable stripes; gonites not fused, with 2 pairs of setae; bacilliform sclerite wide.
Material examined.
Holotype
♂,
Brazil
, State of Pará, Jacarecanga;
xii.1968
; M. Alvarenga leg. [MZUSP] (abdomen and right wing prepared).
Paratype
: 1 ♀, same data as
holotype
[MZUSP].
Description.
Body length,
4.8–5.4 mm
. Wing length, 3.0 mm. Background color, pale yellow.
FIGURES 10–14.
Coroichlorops antennatus
,
sp. nov.
. 10. Habitus (holotype). 11. Head, dorsal view (holotype). 12–13. Antenna (paratype). 14. Wing (holotype). Scale bar, 1 mm.
Head
(
Figs. 10–13
). Wider than thorax, broader than long dorsally, longer than high in profile; frons slightly projected forward; shiny yellow ocellar triangle, almost reaching frons apex, brownish at posterior half, narrow, no groove; occiput slightly darkened, pilose; gena less than half first flagellomere height, inner margin straight; postgena short; parafacialia not visible in profile; eyes bare, large, rounded; facial carina thin, shallow, incomplete; clypeus dark brown; labella reduced, yellow; palpus cylindrical, yellow; pedicel dorsal margin wider than ventral margin; first flagellomere reniform, dark yellow, with an elongate sensorial pit; arista dark, flat, sword-like, with dark short spaced hairs. Chaetotaxy: 6 short orbitals, almost indistinct; 7 interfrontals outside ocellar triangle; inner and outer verticals well developed; ocellars and postocellars not observed (broken); vibrissa thin; gena with few pale hairs.
Thorax
(
Fig. 10
). Scutum length/width ratio 1.6, five orange stripes, a mesal dark orange longitudinal line present, and a small lateral orange spot more or less distinguishable, subshiny, flattened dorsally, dark pilosity inserted on rounded punctures; postpronotum with a blackish spot, and 1 postpronotal developed seta; scutellum rounded apically, not flattened, with regular apical setae; pleura shiny, with no dark spots; 1+2 notopleurals; 1 pair of dorsocentrals; postalar and intrapostalar not observed (probably broken); halter yellow with light yellow apex.
Legs.
Yellow; fore femur with 1 to 2 long hairs laterally; tibial organ short, narrow, concolorous with leg; tarsomeres of mid and hind leg darkened apically.
Wing
(
Fig. 14
). Membrane hyaline; costal sectors 1-2-3-4: 30-
41
-20-5; R4+5 straight; R4+5 and M1+2 parallel; distance between r-m and dm-cu 6 times r-m length; transversal veins placed on basal half of wing.
Abdomen.
Five tergites fully sclerotized, dark yellow.
Male terminalia
(
Figs. 15- 16
). Epandrium large, rounded; proctiger sclerotized, well delimited; mesolobus (fused cerci) long, narrow, rectangular; bacilliform sclerite wide, placed under mesolobus; surstylus forceps-shaped, no microtrichiae, prolonged arm attached to epandrium laterally to mesolobus, directed basally, a beak at tip; hypandrium with two basal, rounded projections, arms long, apex with internal projection moderate, external projection short; pre- and postgonites in line, not fused, postgonite with 2 pairs of setae and sensorial pores; basiphallus oval; distiphallus short; phallapodeme short, bifid at posterior half; epiphallus, longer than basiphallus, thin, weakly sclerotized.
Female terminalia
. Cercus short, yellow.
Etymology.
The specific epithet of the species name comes from the Latin word
antenna
, as a reference to the wide arista.
Comments
. The lateral margins of the ocellar triangle are relatively straight, diverging from the drop-shape condition seen in the other species of
Coroichlorops
. The most aberrant characteristic of
C. antennatus
, however, is the flat wide arista. A long sensorial pit on the first flagellomere is a feature shared between
C. antennatus
and
C. yungas
. The arista of the
holotype
of
C. antennatus
is broken and only with the most basal aristomere present, so the description of the arista was based on the
paratype
.