Species of Coenosia Meigen (Diptera, Muscidae) described by Fritz van Emden from the British Museum Ruwenzori Expedition of 1934 – 1935
Author
Couri, Márcia
Author
Pont, Adrian
text
Zootaxa
2016
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4144.4.5
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Coenosia tomentigera
Emden, 1940
: 152
(
Figs 116–118
)
Holotype male seen; in good condition.
Diagnosis.
General colour brown, with grey pollinosity; palpus brown; legs brown with grey pollinosity; antennal insertion a little projecting; postpedicel about 2.2 times the length of the pedicel; arista almost bare; scutellum with both pairs of setae present and long, and with setulae on disc; all katepisternals long and similar in size; lower calypter short and only slightly projecting beyond the upper one; haltere yellow; all legs in male with numerous fine and long setae; fore tibia of female with one median seta, in male this seta is present but is very fine and long like the other setae on all legs; male mid femur on apical half of anterior surface with a differentiated area covered with a dense, short, brown microscope pile; hind tibia with one median anterodorsal and one short median anteroventral; male abdomen with numerous long, fine, curved hairs like those on the legs; sternite 5 as in
Fig. 116
.
Male terminalia
. Cercal plate and surstylus as in
Fig. 117
. Aedeagal complex as in
Fig. 118
.
Notes.
Originally described in
Coenosia
.
Males can be easily identified by the fine hairs on legs and abdomen and by the differentiated area on mid femur. One male paratype was dissected and illustrated.