Systematics of Robustagramma, a new genus of New World Sphaeroceridae (Diptera)
Author
Marshall, Stephen A.
Author
Cui, Yongsheng
text
Zootaxa
2005
2005-07-29
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.1026.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.1026.1.1
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Robustagramma obscurifrons
Cui and Marshall
,
new species
(
Figs. 164–170
)
As described for
Robustagramma altifrons
except as follows.
Body length
1.2–1.3 mm
. General color dark brown, without vittae on scutum. Face, gena, antenna and lower frons dark brown. Frontal vitta between interfrontal plates indistinctly protuberant. Interfrontal bristles small, in 3 pairs in addition of a pair of interfrontal setulae. Postvertical bristles parallel or slightly divergent. Eye height
ca
. 2.2–2.5 times genal height. Aristal hairs
ca
. 2.5 times basal width of arista. Maximum width of palpus 0.29 times length of palpus. Preapical palpal bristles slightly longer than maximum width of palpus.
Length of second costal sector
ca
. 0.43–0.56X length of third. Discal cell with a very short stump vein CuA
1
, shorter than two vein widths. Mid femur of male with 2 or 3 ventral proximal bristles.
Male terminalia: Dorsomedial length of epandrium
ca
. 0.3X length of sternite 8. Surstylus rounded apically, with a bare anterior lobe. Cercus similar in length to surstylus.
Female terminalia: Tergite 10 with two small bristles, without small setulae. Sternite 7 rounded posteriorly; sternite 10 setulose posteromedially.
Holotype
(
♂
,
DEBU
) and
paratype
(
2 ♀
,
DEBU
):
HONDURAS
:
Francisco Morazán
.
6 km
SE
Zamorano
,
7.vi.1994
,
dung trap
,
H. Howden.
Other
paratype
:
MEXICO
:
Jalisco
,
9.5 mi.
SW Autlan
,
4300ft.
, tropical subdec., human dung,
12–20.ix.1971
,
A. Newton
(
1 ♀
,
DEBU
)
.
Etymology: The specific epithet refers to the dull brown frons.