Seven new species of New World Puliciphora Dahl (Diptera: Phoridae) with a new key to the Neotropical species
Author
Disney, R. Henry L.
text
Zootaxa
2003
162
1
22
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.156896
ac9e0bbf-5998-4d76-a221-9f79bc857eed
11755326
156896
Puliciphora cacaulandiae
sp. nov.
(
Fig. 5
)
Female
Frons brown with 4 SAs006 bristles. Eyes relatively large (with>30 ommatidia in each eye). Postpedicel (third antennal segment) light brown and with only three SPS vesicles, which are larger than sockets of upper SA bristles. Palps paler brown with five bristles and a dozen hairs. Light brown labrum distinctly wider than postpedicel. Brown thorax with a bristle behind spiracle; an alar bristle on distinct pale oval wing remnant; and four bristles at rear margin, the inner pair being closer to each other than either is to an outer bristle. Abdominal tergites brown, T1 being darkest, T2 a little paler and T3T6 paler brown. T4T6 as
Fig. 5
Venter pale brown with numerous hairs above and below.
Legs with brown femora and tibiae and paler tarsi. The shorter (anterior) spur of hind tibia is situated distinctly further than usual from the tip than the longer spur.
Material
HOLOTYPE
female,
Brazil
, Rondônia, near Cacaulandia, Fazenda Rancho Grande,
25 December 1995
, D. H. & A. C. Kistner (5278) (
CUMZ
315).
FIGURES 1114.
Puliciphora
females: (1112) abdominal tergites 46: (11)
P. macrolunarum
; (12)
P. mexicanae
; (13)
P. rufipes
,
hairs on frons adjacent to ocellar triangle; (14)
P. rufipes
abdominal tergites 46. Scale bars = 0.1 mm.