Coenosia Meigen (Diptera: Muscidae) from Angola: new species and records
Author
Couri, Marcia S.
Author
Pont, Adrian C.
text
Zootaxa
2016
4103
6
501
512
journal article
42259
10.11646/zootaxa.4103.6.1
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Coenosia setosa
sp. nov.
(
Figs 3
,
22–25
)
Type
material examined.
Holotype
male,
ANGOLA
: (A6), Tundavala, 9 mls. NW. Sa da Bandeira,
23.ii. 1972
/ Southern African Exp., B.M.1972-1.
Paratypes
,
2 males
(1
MNRJ
),
2 females
(1
MNRJ
), same labels as
holotype
.
Diagnosis.
Scutum and scutellum uniformly silver-grey pollinose from certain angles in male; female with three faint brown vittae; cercal plate very distinct, with long and curly hairs, and with 2 spines on ventral surface.
FIGURES 19–25.
(19–21)
Coenosia planifrons
Stein
, male: (19) sternite 5, dorsal view; (20) cercal plate, dorsal view; (21) aedeagal complex, lateral view. (22–25)
Coenosia setosa
sp. nov
.
, male: (22) sternite 5, dorsal view; (23) cercal plate, dorsal view; (24) cercal plate, ventral view; (25) male aedeagal complex, lateral view.
Description.
(
Fig. 3
) Ground-colour brown, uniformly grey pollinose from certain angles; head with frontal vitta dark brown; ocellar triangle silver pollinose; fronto-orbital plate, face, parafacial and gena silver pollinose; antenna dark brown, tip of pedicel grey pollinose; arista brown; palpus dark brown; scutum and scutellum uniformly silvery-grey pollinose from certain angles in male; female with three faint brown vittae; calypters white; haltere yellow; wing clear; legs dark brown, coxae with grey pollinosity; abdomen uniformly silvery-grey pollinose from certain angles, concolorous with thorax in male; female with brown spots and a median vitta on all tergites; cercal plate with 2 spines and 2 submedian structures on ventral view (
Fig. 24
).
Male
. Body length:
3.3 mm
; wing length:
3 mm
.
Head
. Eye bare; frons very narrow; frontal row with 4 pairs of setae, and 1 pair of reclinate orbitals; inner and outer verticals short, similar in size; ocellars hair-like; antenna inserted at mid-level of eye, with postpedicel about twice the length of pedicel; arista plumose on basal half; palpus filiform.
Thorax
. Acrostichal setulae short, in 4 rows, prescutellar pair not differentiated; dorsocentrals 1+3, all long, the last one longer; postpronotal 1, long; 1 presutural and 1 postsutural intra-alar, 1 postsutural supra-alar; 1 postalar; prealar absent; notopleuron with 2 setae, similar in size; anepisternum with a series of 4 long setae,
3 in
the upper mid part and 1 posterior; katepisternals 1+1+1, arranged in an equilateral triangle. Scutellum with 1 long basal and 1 long apical pair of setae.
Legs
. Fore femur with a complete row of setae on anterodorsal and posterodorsal surfaces; fore tibia with a long posterior median seta, 1 anterodorsal and 1 dorsal preapical, the anterodorsal very long and twice the length of the dorsal seta, 1 posterior, 1 posteroventral and 1 ventral apical, the last two longer than the dorsal seta and similar in size; mid femur with a row of short setae on basal half of anterodorsal surface, 2 anterior setae on middle third, one row of setae on basal two-thirds, 4–5 well-spaced posteroventral setae on basal two-thirds, and 1 anterodorsal and 1posterior preapical; mid tibia with 1 median posterodorsal and 1 median anteroventral, the latter longer, preapicals on dorsal, anterodorsal and posterodorsal surfaces, apicals on anteroventral, ventral and posteroventral surfaces; hind femur with an anterodorsal and an anteroventral row of setae, more spaced and fine on anteroventral surface; hind tibia with 1 anterior and 1 anterodorsal median setae, inserted at almost the same level, 1 long posterodorsal at apical third, 1 anteroventral and 1 ventral apical.
Wing
. Veins bare; veins M and R4+5 parallel at wing-tip; lower calypter about twice the length of the upper one.
Abdomen
. Tergite 3 with 1 lateral pair of setae; tergites 4–5 each with a marginal row of setae. Sternite 1 bare. Sternite 5 “U” shaped (
Fig. 22
).
Terminalia
. Cercal plate as in
Figs 23–24
; with 2 spines and 2 submedian structures on ventral view (
Fig. 24
); surstylus straight, curved at apex. Aedeagal complex as in
Fig. 25
.
Female
: Body length:
3.3 mm
; wing length:
3.2 mm
. Similar to male.
Etymology.
The name refers to the 2 spines on the ventral surface of the cercal plate.
Discussion.
C. setosa
runs in Emden’s (1940) key to the
C. semifumosa
-group, and within this group it runs to
C. semifumosa
Stein
, but
C. setosa
can be differentiated by the very peculiar male terminalia characters.
Geographical distribution.
Angola
.