A reassessment of the Andean genus Myopella Malloch (Diptera: Anthomyiidae)
Author
Michelsen, Verner
text
Zootaxa
2023
2023-08-23
5336
3
413
423
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5336.3.7
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5336.3.7
1175-5326
8281743
B03E2D16-B320-480F-8434-895669B526F5
Myopella angustifrons
Malloch, 1934
(
Figs 1A, B
,
2B
,
3A–E
,
6C, D
,
7
)
Myopella angustifrons
Malloch
;
Malloch 1934: 198–199
, fig. 31 (
Argentina
);
Pont 1974: 7
.
Material examined.
[
NHMD
]:
ARGENTINA
:
Río Negro
:
San Carlos de Bariloche
,
Cerro López
,
1400m
,
1♀
31.xii.1978
(Mision Cientifica Danesa)
.
Tierra del Fuego
: Lago Fagnano, Kalken,
100m
, 14♁,
8♀
19–24.i.1979
(Mision Cientifica Danesa); Estancia Haberton, 1♁
25.i.1979
(Mision Cientifica Danesa)
.
Chubut
: Escuel,
La Hoya
,
800–1350m
,
1♀
25.ii.1979
(Mision Cientifica Danesa)
.
Diagnosis.
Very dark due to extensive coverage of brownish black pruinosity; frontal and facial parts of head velvety brownish black, darkest on frontal vitta; prementum, thorax and abdomen with dark subshine, wing smoky dark brown, calypteres ochre brown; halter black. Acrostichals forming two regular rows of setae behind suture; two subequal intraalar setae; meron with some tiny, anterior-directed setulae beneath spiracle.
Male.
Frons on upper part decidedly narrower than ocellar tubercle, with linear fronto-orbital plates well separated by frontal vitta; fronto-orbital plates each without orbital setae and with 3 frontal setae; frontal vitta with a pair of interfrontal setae. Sternite V with long tapering posterior lobes; upper epandrium prominent, heel-shaped; surstyli slender throughout.
Female.
Frontal setae 3–4 pairs. Spermathecal ducts of normal length, very slender.
Distribution.
Argentina
(
Fig. 7
, black dots).