A revision of the genera and species of the Neotropical family Mesembrinellidae (Diptera: Oestroidea)
Author
Whitworth, Terry L.
Author
Yusseff-Vanegas, Sohath
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-08-26
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journal article
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Mesembrinella bolivar
species-group
Recognition.
The
bolivar
species-group contains two species,
M. bolivar
and
M. carvalhoi
, originally described in the genus
Giovanella
then moved to
Huascaromusca
(
Marinho
et al.
2017
)
, the two new species
M. epandrioaurantia
sp. nov.
and
M. woodorum
sp. nov.
These four species share anterior spiracle with a long, narrow opening gradually widening above (
Fig. 6
), rather than a broad oval opening above; discal scutellar setae absent; and
2x
2 postpronotal setae. The epandrium, cerci and surstyli of
M. bolivar
(
Figs 37–38
) and
M. carvalhoi
(
Wolff
et al
. 2017
: figs 10–11) are very similar, but they are very different from those of
M. epandrioaurantia
sp. nov.
and
M. woodorum
sp. nov.
(
Figs 31–34
). As more species are described this group may be split, but for now they are placed together based on the shared morphological characters listed above. Barcodes were obtained only for
M. epandrioaurantia
sp. nov.
, which formed a distinct group (see discussion under that species).