Oxysarcodexia Townsend, 1917 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) - a centennial conspectus
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Souza, Carina Mara De
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Pape, Thomas
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Thyssen, Patricia Jacqueline
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-08-31
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journal article
8542
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Oxysarcodexia corolla
Dodge, 1965
(
Figs 85–89
)
Oxysarcodexia corolla
Dodge, 1965: 508
;
Jamaica
,
Saint Andrews
, Second Breakfast Spring.
Holotype
male (examined from photographs) and female
allotype
in WSU.
FIGURES 79–89.
Oxysarcodexia
spp., males.
79–81.
Oxysarcodexia conclausa
(Walker)
(USA, Texas, Hidalgo County, NHMD).
79.
Habitus, lateral view.
80.
Terminalia
, lateral view.
81.
Terminalia
, posterior view.
82–84.
Oxysarcodexia confusa
Lopes
(Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Petrópolis, NHMD).
82.
Habitus, lateral view.
83.
Terminalia
, lateral view.
84.
Terminalia
, posterior view.
85–89.
Oxysarcodexia corolla
Dodge
, holotype (Jamaica, Saint Andrews, Second Breakfast Spring, WSU).
85.
Habitus, lateral view.
86.
Terminalia
(without cerci), lateral view.
87.
Cerci and surstyli, lateral view.
88.
Terminalia
(without cerci), posterior view.
89.
Cerci, posterior view. Figs 85–89 by R.S. Zack (WSU).
Diagnosis.
[Based on the original description (
Dodge 1965
), the redescription by
Lopes (1978)
, and on photographs provided by Dr. Richard S. Zack (WSU).] Male. Length
8.5 mm
. Postocular plate yellowish gray. Ocellar bristles weak. Thorax gray and abdomen with silvery pollinosity. Three well-differentiated post-sutural dorsocentral bristles, an additional small bristle can be present among them. Apical scutellar bristles present, although small or weak. Legs blackish. Abdomen grayish with pale golden pollinosity laterally, T4 with long marginal setosity, but none are particularly strongly developed. ST5 with deep cleft. Cercus brownish red with black apex and a conspicuous preapical “tooth”; cerci diverging apically. Pregonite stouter and more curved than postgonite; with darker apex. Postgonite slender and nearly straight; unicolorous. Distiphallus straight with compressed apex and an anterior elongation pointed inward, and bearing a preapical flap around dorsal and lateral sides. Vesica is black, broad, with an asymmetrical finger-shaped process on the left side.
Remarks.
See under
O. augusta
. The female of
O. corolla
has an undivided T7 (
Tibana & Mello 1985
).
Distribution.
NEOTROPICAL.
Jamaica
.
Biology.
Unknown.
Type material examined.
No specimens were examined directly, but photographs of the
holotype
were provided by courtesy of
Dr. Richard S. Zack
(
WSU
)
.