The Tachytrechus alatus species group (= Syntomoneurum Becker) revisited: new species and revised species group limits (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)
Author
Brooks, Scott E.
Author
Cumming, Jeffrey M.
text
Zootaxa
2008
1676
1
27
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.180314
59f2f391-287e-465d-b396-9d11cd0a3378
1175-5326
180314
Tachytrechus alatus
(Becker)
(Figs. 1, 13)
Syntomoneurum alatum
Becker 1922
: 124
.
Tachytrechus alatus
(Becker)
:
Brooks 2005
: 121
.
Diagnosis.
Body length
6.4–7.1 mm
, wing length
6.6 mm
–
7.5 mm
; face and clypeus coppery with green reflections; clypeus rounded below; 1 notopleural bristle; male fore tarsus with basal three-quarters of basitarsus and tarsomeres 3–5 flattened and silvery on anterior surface; hind femur mainly yellow with 1 anterior preapical bristle; M with two 90° bends; R4+5 and M parallel distally (Figs. 1A, 1B); male wing with two adjacent swellings of the costa immediately proximal to insertion of R1, R2+3 very short, ending at costa before midpoint of wing, crossvein dm-cu close to wing base (Fig. 1A); female wing with R2+3 ending beyond midpoint of wing, crossvein dm-cu slightly before midpoint of wing (Fig. 1B); abdominal tergite 5 of male with large posterior membranous region, extended laterally as broad band to ventral margin of sclerite; hypopygium (Figs. 1C, 1D): right basiventral epandrial lobe with rounded basal projection and subquadrate inner distal projection, left basiventral epandrial lobe weakly developed; apicoventral epandrial lobe moderately developed, subquadrate in lateral view, short, projected posteriorly; accessory epandrial process present medial to apicoventral epandrial lobe; ventral surstylar lobe with series of parallel diagonal ridges on ventral surface; apicoventral arm of postgonite with medial process present, apex with hook-like process; cercus subquadrate in dorsal view, apical and lateral margin dark; right margin of hypandrium with pair of sickle-shaped projections; phallus with weakly sclerotized fin-like projection near middle. Female sternite 8 undivided, lacking medial invagination.
Type
material examined.
Lectotype
ɗ,
PERU
: Pasco, road to Rio Pichis,
300–700 m
,
4.i.1904
, C.A.W. Schnuse (
ZMHB
).
Paralectotypes
, 1ɗ and 4Ψ (
SMTD
), 1Ψ (
ZMHB
) all from same locality as
holotype
.
Distribution.
Tachytrechus alatus
is known only from the
type
locality near the Rio Pichis in
Peru
(
Fig. 13
).