Revision of the New World genus Quichuana Knab, 1913 (Diptera: Syrphidae), including descriptions of 24 new species
Author
Ricarte, Antonio
Author
Marcos-García, M. Ángeles
Author
Hancock, E. G.
Author
Rotheray, Graham E.
text
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2012
Zool. J. Linn. Soc.
2015-06-02
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00842.x
journal article
10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00842.x
0024-4082
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QUICHUANA INCA
SHANNON, 1925: 111
FIGURE 81
Diagnostic features
Male
Head:
Frontal triangle with a conspicuous dome on the upper half (see head in lateral view), and with long black hairs centrally and yellow hairs on the eye margins (
Fig. 81
); dorsal surface of the frontal prominence swollen; scape conspicuously shorter than pedicel or basoflagellomere (
Hull, 1946: 16
, fig. 18); bf = 3; black face, with narrow lines of pollinosity from the antennae to the mouth edge, and delimiting a central, shiny, black stripe and two lateral stripes (
Hull, 1946: 16
, fig. 11; 17, fig. 24).
Thorax:
All hairs on PP yellow; scutum with two medial, greyish pollinose stripes extending to the anterior three-quarters of the scutum; scutum with short, posteriorly directed, yellow hairs and a few much longer black hairs intermixed on the half of the scutum behind the TS; PC and area just above the wings with black hairs, shorter than the black hairs of the rest of the scutum; pleuron with yellowish white hairs, tufted on NP, PAPT, and PC; metaepisternum with a few short, pale hairs; metafemur conspicuously swollen, reddish on the apical third; pro- and mesofemur black to dark brown; tibiae and tarsi red to reddish brown; halteres dark brown.
Abdomen (
Fig. 81
):
Black; tapering from tergum I to about the middle of tergum II, and then widening progressively until tergum IV; terga II–III with a conspicuous yellowish white pollinose band on the posterior margin; tergum I with a moustache arrangement of yellowish white hairs; terga I–II with long yellowish white hairs on the lateral margins (with the longest hairs on tergum II); terga II–IV with yellowish white hairs and scattered black hairs intermixed; hairs on the posterior margin of terga II–IV longer than those on the rest of the tergum, yellow on terga II–III, and black on tergum IV.
Female
Unknown.
Material examined
Holotype
:
1m
,
Huascaray
,
Peru
, 21.9/CHTTownsend
Collector
/
Type
no. 27829, U.S.N.M. (number handwritten on a red label)/
Quichuana inca
Snn.
(handwritten) (head and right antenna pasted on a label, right wing kept in a plastic capsule attached to the pin) (
USNM
).
Range
Peru
.
Taxonomic notes
Small
Ceriana
-like species (
8.4 mm
) with slender abdomen (
Fig. 81
). To separate this species from the similar
Q. brevicera
and other species, see ‘Taxonomic notes’ under
Q. brevicera
.