Revision of Diplosynapsis Enderlein, 1914 (Diptera, Asilidae, Asilinae) with description of four new species
Author
Vieira, Rodrigo
Author
Rafael, José Albertino
text
Zootaxa
2016
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journal article
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Diplosynapsis argentifascia
Enderlein, 1914
(
Figs. 1–18
)
Diplosynapsis argentifascia
Enderlein, 1914
: 259
, fig. 5;
Hull, 1962
: 479
;
Martin & Papavero, 1970
: 70
;
Lamas, 1972
: 313
;
Artigas & Papavero, 1997
: 70
; Papavero, 2009: 17 (catalogue);
Papavero, Artigas & Lamas, 2009
: 27
, figs. 71–75, 28, figs. 76–79.
Erax argentiafascia
;
Bromley, 1946
: 114
(catalogue), error.
Diagnosis.
Cells r1 and r2+3 wrinkled in the males (
Fig. 5
); epandrium constricted apically (
Fig. 6
); tergites 6 and 7 with shiny silvery apex (
Figs. 3, 4
); gonocoxite apex rounded in lateral view (
Fig. 7
); ejaculatory apodeme short, surpassing, at most, the level of the aedeagal sheath (
Fig. 8
); aedeagus apex curved dorsally (
Fig. 8
); ovipositor long and laterally compressed (
Figs. 10, 11
,
18
); common duct of spermathecae short (
Fig. 17
); expulsory ducts long (
Fig. 17
); 3 spermathecae with oval capsules (
Figs. 14, 17
); genital fork long (
Fig. 17
).
Comments.
Diplosynapsis argentifascia
was described based in
6 specimens
from
Peru
(
Cuzco
,
Junin
) and
Brazil
(
Pará
).
Enderlein
(1914)
deposited the specimens in the
Stettiner Zoologisches Museum
(
Alemanha
)
.
According to Papavero (2009) the
syntypes
are deposited in the Instytut Zoologiczny Polskiej Akademii Nauk (
IZPAN
),
Warsaw
,
Poland
.
According to the
IZPAN
curator (Thomas Huflejt 2012,
in litt.
),
2 syntypes
with red labels were loaned to the
National Museum
of
Natural History
,
London
, (
NHM
) and they have not been returned yet, and four specimens with yellow labels, labeled as ‘cotypes’, are deposited at
IZPAN
(
Figs. 1–4
; 10–12). A loan request was sent to the
IZPAN
curator to study part of the
syntypes
, but the request was denied due to the institute’s policy.
Nonetheless
, photographs of these specimens were arranged for this study.
Distribution.
Peru
(
Cuzco
,
Junín
);
Brazil
(
Pará
) (
Fig. 75
).